Of Human Bondage For the first ever stage adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s titanic novel Of Human Bondage, Vern Thiessen has made the bold choice to excerpt the story he was most interested in telling from the 800 page life-spanning tale of Philip Carey. He smartly has streamlined and simplified his chosen plot- the tragedy […]
Disclaimer: If you are a Shakespeare nerd, skip the article, drop that dinner date on Thursday and pick up a ticket to National Theatre Live’s broadcast of King Lear at the Cineplex nearest you. Might love it, might hate it, but I’m confident (having seen it on stage myself) that you’ll be glad you saw it. Maybe you know […]
As you likely already know (because we talk about it All The Time), earlier this month we hosted Toronto’s inaugural My Theatre Awards ceremony. The awards have been around since 2010, but this was the first party. Because it was the first party, it took a ton of planning. In the process of all said […]
Ever have one of those college English papers which you can’t seem to write because you’re worried that the professor will judge you for your crazy ideas? What if you just wrote your ideas to him or her in a musical adaptation of the most accessible Shakespeare plays and called it a night? Midsummer Night: […]
The A.R.T.’s and the OBERON’s The Donkey Show is old news; while a refreshing and imaginative retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream when it premiered in Boston in 2009, and though the appeal has not worn-off completely, the production is on its way out the door. In its place, the Boston theatre scene demands something […]
Admittedly, I was overly worried going into this film. Thanks to some unflattering trailers, I actually avoided this film for a few weeks. The truth is that the original Rocky and Bullwinkle series is one of my favourite shows, and I was fairly certain that this movie was probably going to offend the fanboy in […]
Jack the Ripper is not a new tale; tracing back to the 19th century, Jack the Ripper has haunted and plagued the media and bedtime stories as an unsolved “murder of the century.” In fact, Jack the Ripper (can he ever be “Just Jack”?) was selected by the BBC History magazine as the worst Briton […]
Stupid F***ing Bird by Aaron Posner offered my first trip to the Apollinaire Theatre Company in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The play is billed as “sort of adapted from Chekhov’s The Seagull,” and, after seeing the play, I sort of agree. Chekhov’s The Seagull tells about the intersection between love and art, new and old forms, the […]