Curtain Comes Down With a Musical Classic
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on July 21, 2008
A doyenne of the local stage bows out with an alfresco production of one of the classics of musical theatre, writes Alan Cookman
COLE Porter’s sparkling musical comedy Kiss Me Kate is hardly a show which tugs at the heart strings.
If there are moist eyes in the stalls, they can usually be blamed on tears of [...]
Curtain Call presents ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 9, 2008
Tragedy and true love will take the stage this summer at Shakespeare on the Green in Stamford.
This weekend kicks off Curtain Call’s fifth annual free Shakespeare performance featuring the bard’s famous play “Romeo and Juliet.”
“We played it safe for the past four years it’s about time for a tragedy,” said Lou Ursone, executive director of [...]
Stratford raises another curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 25, 2008
Right Here’s parents were first thrilled by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival at its birth when the Bard and all the world and the players and the amazed audience were under a tent.
That amazing tent vanished in the 1950s, but tradition of Shakespeare at Stratford continues this week when the festival’s 2008 season opens tomorrow with [...]
The West End isn’t facing the final curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 14, 2008
This buzzy, caffeine-addicted British impresario ought to be on top of the world. Two of her Broadway productions - Tom Stoppard’s Rock’ n’ Roll and the old farce Boeing-Boeing - have just been nominated for 10 Tony Awards in New York, the US theatre’s equivalent of the Oscars.
A host of other Brits have also been [...]
Dickens staging a great long journey
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on March 1, 2008
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas NicklebyPart I:
(out of 4)Part II:
(out of 4)By David Edgar. Based on the novel by Charles Dickens. Directed by Jonathan Church and Philip Franks, until April 20 at the Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King St. W. 416-872-1212
The year is still young, but I’m willing to bet [...]
Avondale to host a night of theatre
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 12, 2008
Avondale House and Forest Park will provide the setting for a night of open air theatre on Sunday week, July 15. Chapterhouse Theatre Company will be presenting William Shakespeare’s As You Like It’.
The theatre company is entering its eighth season of productions with some of William Shakespeare’s most popular plays presented at country ahouses throughout [...]