Curtain may not yet have fallen on theatre
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on May 11, 2008
Llewellyn Rhoe’s effort to establish Vancouver’s first professional theater company with its own venue ended in February when Arts Equity Onstage closed the doors to its Main Street Theatre.
But Rhoe is hoping for a second act.
He said former patrons have encouraged him to proceed with a 2008-09 season and resurrection may come now that Arts [...]
The Viewing Room
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 18, 2008
Leonard Roberts has appeared in the fantasy TV series Heroes , Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Smallville , and now on the even-smaller-ville of the Arts Theatre stage in a different kind of fantasy. Daniel Joshua Rubin’s play imagines a near future in which so many of America’s resources are bent towards “the war of [...]
Music Heppner’s absence just a prelude to wild night at the opera
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on March 16, 2008
NEW YORKæŠirst Tristan, now Isolde. Already missing famed Canadian tenor Ben Heppner because of a virus, the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde lost Deborah Voigt in the middle of the second act Friday night because of a stomach ailment. That left the Met in the highly unusual spot of having [...]
WhatsOn Ida Nevasayneva’s life as a cross-dressing ballerina
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 18, 2008
It has been nearly six years since Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo last graced a stage in Toronto. But this is a favourite city for the company, as the site of their first performance outside New York City, where the butchiest ballerinas in pointe shoes formed their company in 1974. Combining parody and technical [...]