News: (Toronto) Luminato announces new season (report)

Baque de Bamba Marching Band at press conference

All This and Boy George Too
by Émilie Charlebois

Following a lovely breakfast spread and speeches from CEO Janice Price and sponsor l’Oréal, Luminato Festival Artistic Director Jörn Weisbrodt took the stage to spill the beans on the 2014 Luminato Festival program, and there were a lot of beans to spill. As always, there is much to expect and look forward to, which made the announcement somewhat dizzying as Weisbrodt took us through the assortment of innovative creations that aim to make Toronto an international stage for culture and creativity. 

Sunday Feature: Joel Greenberg on Ten Years of Studio 180

Rehearsing the original production of Clybourne Park

Kimwun Perehinec, Joel Greenberg, Mark McGrinder (photo by Robert Harding)

Ten on Ten

Studio 180's glowing past is spilling into their next decade

by Émilie Charlebois

As Studio 180 Theatre continues performances of their celebrated production of Clybourne Park and as they prepare a public reading of the play that launched the company - The Laramie Project - artistic director Joel Greenberg took a few minutes to explain the significance of another landmark event in the company's history: their tenth anniversary.

CHARPO: How did you celebrate your tenth birthday as a kid?

GREENBERG:  No recollection at all - little memory of any birthdays until I was well into my 20's.

CHARPO: What does this anniversary mean to you?

GREENBERG: I am amazed by the evolution of Studio 180 Theatre, since when we produced 'The Laramie Project' in 2003 the aim was to get it on - we never considered a long-term plan or even a life after Laramie.