Before we announce the winners of the 2013 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Director Matthew Gorman‘s vivacious Twelfth Night at Hart House is one of our most-nominated productions of the year. One of those nominations is Best Supporting Actress in a Regional Production for Alison Blair who brought new life and […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2013 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Shakespeare Bash’d Artistic Director James Wallis is nominated for his second My Theatre Award in a row for playing one of Shakespeare’s great comedic leading men at the Toronto Fringe Festival. This time around the Best […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2013 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Matthew Gorman’s production of Twelfth Night at Hart House was one of our favourite Shakespeare productions of the year. He took a hopelessly over-produced text and made it interesting again by taking it seriously […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2013 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. One of our Best Actor nominees in Toronto’s Regional Category, Alex McCooeye was a refreshing, funny and terrifying Richard III. The success of Shakespeare in the Ruff’s 2013 production in Withrow Park rested squarely on […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2013 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. A Best Supporting Actor nominee in the regional category this year, Scott Farley’s dynamic take on the much-abused and abusing Malvolio in Matthew Gorman’s scholarly Twelfth Night was one of the highlights of Hart House’s standout 2013 […]
As You Like It is my absolute favourite Shakespearean comedy. It’s both sweepingly romantic and wryly realistic about love and marriage. It’s fantastically witty but also deeply melancholy. It has as much to say about friendship as it does about romance. It’s philosophical, fun, touching and generally a pretty easy slam dunk of a show. […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2013 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. The first entry into this year’s Nominee Interview Series is Christopher Fowler, a Best Supporting Actor nominee for his performance as Touchstone in Humber River Shakespeare’s production of As You Like It. One of the summer’s most reliably […]
I was pleasantly surprised to find a new Shakespeare play to enjoy on a chilly December night. Actors’ Shakespeare Project tackles the rarely-produced Henry VIII by the famous bard. This play is one of his later plays but without much of the memorable depth of King Lear or Winter’s Tale. In fact, I was surprised […]