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Actor Ian McKellen feared he would die in London stage fall
FILE PHOTO: Actor Ian McKellen attends a Service of Thanksgiving for Sir Peter Hall at Westminster Abbey in London, Britain, September 11, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo
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Stratford Festival: A new, idiosyncratic stage adaptation of The Diviners could spark a Margaret Laurence revival
Irene Poole as Morag Gunn with Jesse Gervais as Jules in The Diviners. Stratford Festival 2024. Photo: David Hou.
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Stratford Festival’s 2025 season will see candidates facing off for artistic director role
Kelly Nestruck
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Stratford Festival: Salesman in China is a brilliant new play, fully ready to take the world’s stages by storm
Tom McCamus as Arthur Miller (front-left) and Adrian Pang 彭耀順 as Ying Ruocheng (front-right) with from left: 郝邦宇 Steven Hao as Li Shilong, Phoebe Hu 胡馨勻 as Zhu Lin, Harriet Chung 鍾浩賢 as Hui Li and Derek Kwan 關顯揚 as Mo in Salesman in China. Stratford Festival 2024. Photo: David Hou.
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Stratford Festival: Deborah Hay’s Lady Gay Spanker will have you bent over with laughter in London Assurance
Austin Eckert as Charles Courtly and Marissa Orjalo as Grace Harkaway in London Assurance. Stratford Festival 2024. Photo: David Hou.
review
The Shaw festival’s Snow in Midsummer will tug at your heartstrings
The cast of Snow in Midsummer (Shaw Festival, 2024). Photo by David Cooper.
review
The real mystery isn’t why the Shaw Festival is producing another Sherlock Holmes play (bums in seats) – but who wrote it
Damien Atkins as Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart (Shaw Festival, 2024). Photo by Emily Cooper.
review
Candida, the All Fours of its time, shows its age in latest Shaw Festival revival
Sanjay Talwar as Rev. James Mavor Morell, Sochi Fried as Candida Morell and Johnathan Sousa as Eugene Marchbanks in Candida (Shaw Festival, 2024). Photo by Emily Cooper. Candida, Shaw Festival . File by WEDS August 14.
review
Stratford Festival’s Get that Hope is a short and sweet Jamaican Independence Day’s journey into night
Conrad Coates as Richard Whyte and Celia Aloma as Rachel Whyte in Get That Hope. Stratford Festival 2024. Photo: David Hou.
arts
Alyssa Milano to make her Broadway debut in the razzle-dazzle musical Chicago this fall
FILE - Alyssa Milano appears at a screening of "Maestro" in Los Angeles on Dec. 12, 2023. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP File)
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At the Stratford Festival, Edward Albee’s The Goat is an opportunity to ruminate deeper on scandals from Schultz to Munro
Rick Roberts as Martin and Lucy Peacock as Stevie in The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?. Stratford Festival 2024. Photo: David Hou.
arts
‘When it’s just you’: One-woman shows flourish at Edmonton fringe festival
Playwright Madi May pictured in Edmonton on Thursday Aug. 8, 2024. May is set to put on a one-person show called Fantomina at the Roxy Theatre, opening Aug. 17 during the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson.
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Hamlet in High Park offers a fresh perspective on a classic, with a couple of missteps
(L to R) Amelia Sargisson, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, and Qasim Khan as Hamlet.
theatre and performance
Years after co-writing it, Irene Sankoff is taking centre stage in Come From Away
Irene Sankoff, co-creator and cast member of “Come From Away,” poses for a photo in the dressing room after a rehearsal at the Elgin Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto, Monday, July 15, 2024. (Galit Rodan/The Globe and Mail)
theatre and performance
Open-ended Toronto production of The Lion King gets its cast
Sebastien Heins, right, who made his professional acting debut playing young Simba in the original Toronto cast of The Lion King in 2000, speaks with producer David Mirvish and Mayor Olivia Chow during a press conference announcing a second run of The Lion King at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, Tuesday, November 21, 2023. Casting is set to begin soon and the show will premiere in November, 2024. (Galit Rodan/The Globe and Mail) �
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The Last Timbit, a Tim Hortons stage musical, lands a second life streaming on Crave
On the heels of a limited stage run in Toronto, Bell Media and Tim Hortons have joined forces to transform the acclaimed musical, The Last Timbit, into a 80-min Crave special. Filmed in front of a live studio audience at Toronto’s Elgin Theatre, THE LAST TIMBIT premieres exclusively on Crave on Monday, August 12 2024
theatre and performance
Willem Dafoe is named artistic director of Venice Biennale’s theatre department
FILE - Willem Dafoe poses for photographers upon arrival at the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Sept. 6, 2022. Dafoe, a frequent red-carpet star at the Venice Film Festival, was named artistic director Monday, July 8, 2024 of the Venice Biennale’s theatre department. Dafoe, who lives near Rome with his Italian wife, said the appointment came as a surprise but that he was “borne in the theatre” and trained initially as a stage actor. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
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Becoming Anne: PEI’s Rebekah Brown takes on a role of a lifetime in musical Anne & Gilbert
8:41 p.m. — Rebekah Brown, playing Anne Shirley, performs a solo during the production of Anne and Gilbert in Charlottetown, P.E.I. on Saturday, June 22, 2024. Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail
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A Streetcar Named Desire is Soulpepper at its best
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by Tennessee Williams Directed by Weyni Mengesha Starring - Divine Brown, Oliver Dennis, Shakura Dickson, Mac Fyfe, Kaleb Horn, Sebastian Marziali, Lindsay Owen Pierre, Gregory Prest, Amy Rutherford, Ordena Stephens-Thomspon
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La Cage aux Folles is no drag in uplifting production at Stratford Festival
James Daly as Jean-Michel (centre) and Chris Vergara as Jacob (right) with Sean Arbuckle as Georges in La Cage aux Folles. Stratford Festival 2024. Photo: David Hou.
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