CPC's picture of the Week, March 8, 2012

David Ferry (front) and cast from Hart House's 

Night of the Iguana

(read our review)

Review: (Montreal) Midsummer

Promo video

Songs in the key of Squee
Is it a musical? An Opera? A play with songs? Does it matter?
by Nanette Soucy

Théâtre la Licorne’s intimacy suggests Saturday night drinks with your old friends Helena & Bob as they tell you the story of how they met, in their grubby apartment after a few glasses of wine. Inevitably, at these things, someone always whips out a guitar, and everybody sings along.

CPC's Video of The Week, March 7, 2012

Stratford's Jesus Christ Superstar heads to Broadway

PR begins with this Fan Concert of Paul Nolan (Jesus) doing

a splendidly tortured "Gethsamene"

News: Governor General's Laureates announced

Winners of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards and special prizes include, this year: Stratford Artistic Director Des McAnuff, actor Mary Walsh and director Denis Marleau.


Press release:

News: (London) Grand Theatre announces crowd-pleasing 2012-13 season

Jean Yoon & Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)

With a refrain we may be hearing during other season launches this spring, The Grand Theatre announced that the Soulpepper hit, Kim's Convenience, will be part of it's next season as the Ins Choi work pursues a tour across the country.

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After Dark, March 6, 2012

Confusion
CharPo is in deep debate
by Gaëtan L. Charlebois

Maybe it's because I'm old. Maybe it's because Arden Ryshpan, the executive director of Actor's Equity is a friend since our days in the trenches of the ACTRA board. Maybe it's because I was a union activist in CEGEP, staging guerilla theatre during student/teacher strike marches and even walking out of a production directed by Jean Gascon because I felt we were scabbing...

Maybe it's because of all of these things that I truly did not see a controversy coming at me like a train in Actor's Equity's stance on non-Equity productions (as expressed by Arden herself on this site). Joel Fishbane's enormously well-reasoned rebuttal came out of the blue for me. The discussions we've had in the CharPo contributors forums surprised me.