There was sad news out of Stratford today as the festival announced the death of one of their finest performers, Peter Donaldson. The consistent and engaging actor died of lung cancer yesterday, January 8th 2011, leaving behind 2 daughters and his wife, former Stratford actress and Little Mosque on the Prairie star Sheila McCarthy. Donaldson, […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2010 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present the My Theatre Nominee Interview Series. Here with our first interview of the series is one of My Theatre’s favourite actresses. Stratford leading lady Andrea Runge is nominated for her performance as Rosalind in As You Like It. She took […]
Let me start out by saying that this review is tragically overdue. I saw the production in November but my notes have sat idle on my desktop for months. But this week I had the pleasure of speaking with director Elenna Mosoff as part of the upcoming “My Theatre Nominee Interview Series”, a conversation that […]
I’m sure that anyone who’s actually been reading my (admittedly few and far between) articles will have seen that I’ve done a lot of Shakespeare pieces. That’s ‘cause I love Shakespeare, and I would have his children if it were (biologically) possible. But, I thought that for this time around, I’d try something a little […]
Today marks the expansion of a tradition at My Entertainment World. Following in the footsteps of My TV, this year My Theatre is giving out our own awards. The following is a list of the 2010 My Theatre Award nominees. Any production that one of our writers saw between Jan 1 and Dec 31 […]
In Jane Carnwath’s production of Hedda Gabler this fall at Alumnae Theatre, Ibsen’s complex play about a caged animal of a woman was done excellent justice. Using Judith Thompson’s clever translation, the company effectively turned the beautifully intimate studio theatre into a claustrophobic den of domesticity in which Sochi Fried’s Hedda spiraled into fascinating madness. […]
The Actor’s Shakespeare Project’s Coveted Crown begins and ends each piece of the puzzle with a song. The fabulous Bobbie Steinbach, armed with a tambourine and the acoustic backup of the humming ensemble, tells us everything we need to know going into the prologue (excerpts from Richard II, starring the sometimes affected/sometimes effective Marya Lowry). […]
I spent my Thursday night in a packed house. And I don’t mean I sat in the 99-seat student theatre with people on either side, I mean I got to the 500-seat auditorium an hour early and had to fight for my prime vantage point. The production played to a competitively sold-out crowd for 3 […]