Monthly Archives: March 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Ontario Playwrights Master Class: Linda Griffiths

Linda Griffiths talks about visceral playwriting at the Playwrights Guild of Canada

Linda Griffiths. Photo credit: David Leyes.

Linda Griffiths shook things up last Monday evening at the Playwrights Guild of Canada. The fourth speaker in The Locomotion: Ontario Playwrights Master Class Series (the first three workshops were held by Andy McKim, Daniel Brooks and Paul Thompson), [...]

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Montparnasse

Two artists bare body and soul for a provocative theatre experience
Presented by Groundwater Productions in association with Theatre Passe Muraille
Written and performed by Maev Beaty and Erin Shields
Directed by Andrea Donaldson

Erin Shields and Maev Beaty. Photo by Aviva Armour Ostroff.

We witnessed the unveiling of a theatrical masterpiece last Tuesday night at the opening of Groundwater [...]

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Monday, March 21, 2011

The Time of Your Life

Soulpepper’s Dora Award-winning cast makes for great company
Written by William Saroyan
Directed by Albert Schultz

Stuart Hughes, Kevin Bundy and Joseph Ziegler. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.

You know you’re having fun when you don’t want a two-hour-and-25-minute play to end. The Young Centre was a special place to be on Friday night for the opening of The Time [...]

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Monday, March 21, 2011

New Ideas Festival: Week Three

Letting Go

Written by Neale Kimmel
Directed by Joanne Williams
Running time: 15 minutes

Robin Cunningham & Sarah Cody in Letting Go by Neale Kimmel. Photo: Joanne Williams.

Breaking up is hard to do, especially when you still have feelings for your soon-to-be ex. When Lucy and Darryl attempt to part ways at Union Station, they find it’s even more difficult than [...]

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Monday, March 21, 2011

New Ideas Festival: Q&A With David Nicholson

David Nicholson

David Nicholson delights in giving new life to classic French comedies. His translations of Tartuffe (East Side Players) and Cyprienne (The Village Playhouse) were well-received by Toronto audiences. Currently, Nicholson is staging Two Weeks in Normandy (translated from Villégiature by Henry Meilhac) in Week Three (March 23 to 26, 2011) of Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival. Watch [...]

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Monday, March 21, 2011

New Ideas Festival: Week Two

Reflections
Written by Flora Stohr-Danziger
Directed by Annie MacMillan
Running time: 25 minutes

Cast clockwise from centre of Susan Q. Wilson (Matilda): Marisa Crockett (Matty), Morna Wales (Mother & Psychiatrist), Adrian Yearwood (The Artist), and Anna Ross (Tilly) in Reflections by Flora Stohr-Danziger. Photo by Marisa Crockett.

Reflections tells the story of an artist named Matilda (Susan Q. Wilson). She finds an [...]

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Monday, March 21, 2011

New Ideas Festival: Q&A With Neale Kimmel

Neale Kimmel

Since completing her BFA in acting at the University of Windsor, Neale Kimmel has performed in New York, Minnesota and Montreal with the play How Does a Drug Deal Become a Decent Third Date? New to the world of playwrighting, Kimmel’s first play Like Bees and Honey was produced at the Toronto Fringe Festival in [...]

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Monday, March 21, 2011

New Ideas Festival: Q&A With Kelsey Blair

Kelsey Blair

Kelsey Blair holds a BA in film studies from the University of British Columbia and an MA in cinema studies from the University of Toronto. A freelance writer and editor, Blair’s work has been published and produced both locally and nationally. Most recent (stage) credits include: Twenty (Alumnae Theatre’s 48-Hour Playwriting Contest), How to [...]

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Monday, March 21, 2011

New Ideas Festival: Week One

 

Since 1989, Alumnae Theatre Company has hosted an annual festival of new works, which provides playwrights, directors, actors and technicians the opportunity to develop never-before-produced short scripts. The New Ideas Festival is now a juried, three-week annual festival of new writing, works-in-progress and experimental theatre, with a different program of plays each week, and a staged reading on Saturdays [...]

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Thomas & Friends Live! On Stage: Q&A With Carlos Avilas

Cast of Thomas Saves the Day. Photo courtesy of Thomas & Friends Live! On Stage.

Carlos Avilas is currently playing the role of Stephen Hatt in Thomas & Friends Live! On Stage at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. Avilas graduated with a BA in theatre from UCLA. It was during that time that he began a [...]

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Thomas & Friends Live! On Stage: Q&A With Shaun Rice

Shaun Rice as Sir Topham Hatt. Photo courtesy of Thomas & Friends Live! On Stage.

Since finishing his training at the Americal Musical and Dramatic Academy, Shaun Rice has remained active in the theatre world as an actor, director and voice-over talent. Recently, Rice was given the role of the Skipper in the first national tour of [...]

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Thomas & Friends Live! On Stage: Q&A With Ricky Whitfield

Percy the Engine. Photo courtesy of Thomas & Friends Live! On Stage.

Ricky Whitfield will be performing the role of Percy Driver in the upcoming Thomas & Friends Live! On Stage (March 18 to 20, 2011) at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. Whitfield graduated in 2005 with a BFA in musical theatre from the University [...]

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