Before we announce the winners of the 2014 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. The best selling production of the year at the Shaw Festival was a delightful ensemble comedy starring a whole host of the company’s most established artists, When We Are Married. All of said wonderful actors performed admirably […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2014 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Queen Elizabeth I in Timothy Findley’s gorgeous historical fiction Elizabeth Rex is a gift of a dramatic role for any actress. For relative newcomer Lydia Kiselyk, the chance to play the part in the East Side Players’ […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2014 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Tim Walker is one of those actors who can make even the grumpiest critic smile (well, we’d have to ask certain national newspaper writers to really verify that statement, but he certainly can lighten any of our […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2014 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.   We love the Shaw Festival. Pound for pound they have our favourite acting company in the country and they consistently introduce us to interesting texts we’ve never seen produced. But there are few directors at the […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2014 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Last year’s winner for Best New Work (Donors), Brandon Crone is back again in the same category, this time nominated for Maypole Rose, his gorgeous contribution to the truly cool collaborative project that was Circle Jerk. Four […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2014 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.   A rare nominee being celebrated for multiple productions, Melanie Hrymak features in the opposite categories of Solo Performance and Best Ensemble. The captivating work she did at the Fringe Festival in her Best Solo Performance-nominated show Licking […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2014 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.   After appearing in our Best Regional Production winner last year (FeverGraph’s Look Back in Anger), Adriano Sobretodo Jr. proceeded to deliver one of the most captivating performances at the 2014 SummerWorks Festival as an illegal immigrant […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2014 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.   Our Fringe week began with a bang in 2014, taking in opening night of Alexander Offord’s Fringe New Play Contest-winning work Potosi, about sheltered North American corporate interlopers in a civil war-torn country. There we encountered […]