Next year, The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is getting a new Artistic Director. Antoni Cimolino isn’t actually all that new, he’s been with the festival for decades (remember when he played Romeo to Megan Follows’ Juliet?) and is currently its General Manager. But his promotion means a lot for where the festival is going. And, predictably, […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. In my first season covering The Shaw Festival there was one actor who really stood out as the most eclectic and compelling performer. The chameleonic Steven Sutcliffe stole my attention with a show-saving […]
Sometimes my beloved Stratford Festival has the greatest marketing strategies ever. I’m not sure if this will actually sell any tickets that wouldn’t have otherwise been sold, but it makes me incredibly giddy, and that’s something at least. Watch Hero and Claudio from the 2012 season’s Much Ado About Nothing spout Shakespeare’s most famous love […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. A My Theatre favourite on the Stratford Festival stage, Laura Condlln stole her scenes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Peter Pan before starring in the 2011 season’s best cast as the scheming Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor. […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. One of The Stratford Festival’s great leading ladies, Amanda Lisman is perhaps best remembered as Roxanne opposite Colm Feore’s Cyrano, but it was her performance as the mostly silent Lavinia is Darko Tesnjak’s brutal Titus Andronicus last season that […]
Tomorrow night- March 22, 2012- marks Mike Nadajewski‘s official Broadway debut. His My Theatre Award-nominated role as Peter in Des McAnuff’s smash hit Jesus Christ Superstar is what’s brought him there. Before hitting the Great White Way, Superstar stopped at La Jolla Playhouse on its way from its original home at the Stratford Shakespeare […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2011 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. In August, before the casting announcements for The Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 2012 season came out, I published my perfect-world casting of their upcoming Much Ado About Nothing. Two of those dream-castings came true when […]
*originally published on October 6, 2011* Ranking: #1 The most fun I’ve had at a Shakespeare play in a very long time was at Des McAnuff’s raucous celebration of anachronism: Twelfth Night, my favourite Stratford Production of 2011. I love anachronism as a concept. The universality of Shakespeare’s plays makes it okay for them to […]