Curtain rises at new performing arts centre
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on June 4, 2008
From Alice’s Restaurant to Rosecrantz and Guildenstern, the stage is set for the first season at Richmond Hill’s new performing arts centre.
The vision of having a theatre for York Region has been in the works for at least 26 years and this council is proud to be making it a reality, he said.
A quartet of [...]
GTA Bringing opera to the movie masses
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 6, 2008
It was an afternoon of Puccini with popcorn as a performance by the Metropolitan Opera of La Bohme was beamed live to movie theatres around the world from the Lincoln Center in New York.The mix of high culture and mass entertainment was a huge hit in Greater Toronto yesterday, with many theatres sold out well [...]
Virus season at the Met
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 29, 2008
Twenty-three years have passed since the Met last ventured Ernani . Perhaps they should have waited a bit longer.Pier Luigi Samaritani’s sparse designs, created in 1983, decorate Verdi’s glorious score and Piave’s creaky libretto with clunky window-dressing. Samaritani’s staging scheme forces the cast to clamber awkward steps when not striking picturesque poses. Peter McClintock, the [...]
Earth Hour Earth Hour activities
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on March 29, 2008
Music %26amp; PerformancesAcoustic Harvest Folk Club celebrates Earth Hour with candle and lantern light, and an unplugged set by DALA with opening act Mark Weinstock. Mar. 29 at 8 p.m. ($15). St. Nicholas Anglican, 1512 Kingston Rd. Info: 416-264-2235.Lights Out at the Trane Studio sees the club hosting a group of singer-songwriters performing an acoustic [...]
What’s On: Earth Hour Events
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on March 29, 2008
On March 29, Toronto and many surrounding communities are taking part in Earth Hour. Starting at 8 p.m., you can join in by turning off your lights for one hour to save energy and help save the planet. Or head out to one [...]
Ernani, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 20, 2008
Twenty-three years have passed since the Met last ventured Ernani. Perhaps they should have waited a bit longer.Pier Luigi Samaritani sparse designs, created in 1983, decorate Verdi glorious score and Piave creaky libretto with clunky window-dressing. Samaritani staging scheme forces the cast to clamber awkward steps when not striking picturesque poses. Peter McClintock, the current [...]
Spirit of Uganda
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 20, 2008
There is so much grief coming out of Africa that it’s good to report something upbeat for a change. Partially in order to raise awareness of the ravages of civil war and Aids, which have left an estimated 2.4m orphans, Empower African Children, a company of youngsters aged from eight to 18, is touring a [...]
Spirit of Uganda, Joyce Theater, New York
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 20, 2008
There is so much grief coming out of Africa that it good to report something upbeat for a change. Partially in order to raise awareness of the ravages of civil war and Aids, which have left an estimated 2.4m orphans, Empower African Children, a company of youngsters aged from eight to 18, is touring a [...]
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 [...]
What’s On: Clubs
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 21, 2008
Alleycatz (2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865): Urban Siren tonight; Soular Fri. %26#38; Sat.; open stage jam every Sun.; Swing House Band every Tues.; Jasmin Bailey %26#38; Co. every Wed.Annex Wreckroom (794 Bathurst St.): Anniversary party Sat. (SuperNova 3 p.m.); Winter Caribbean Festival with Dwayne [...]