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Stratford Festival 2009 Playwrights' Retreat.
In: Playwrights & Stage Actors (general)
Eight of Canada's most exciting writers are now developing their own stage projects as part of a current three-week residency for The Second Annual Playwrights' Retreat. more...
Anthony Herrera's Poetry Theatre
In: Playwrights & Stage Actors (general)
Famous British sculptor / painter and Winston Churchill's granddaughter, with Mississippi building magnate, help to promote timeless work of the world's best poets. more...
Poetry Theatre – From The Bard to Eric Bogle
In: Playwrights & Stage Actors (general)
Anthony Herrera, villain James Stenbeck, on As The World Turns, author of The Cancer War, presents Ogden Nash, William Butler Yeats, Jane Austen, to new generations. more...
Studio Theatre Shows - Stratford Festival Canada
In: Playwrights & Stage Actors (general)
Directors Jennifer Tarver, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Morris Panych, work with actors Lucy Peacock, Sam Moses, Rick Roberts, Kelli Fox, Sarah Orenstein and Joseph Ziegler. more...
Three Sisters - Stratford Shakespeare Festival
In: Playwrights & Stage Actors (general)
Russian classic has Stratford's finest including Lucy Peacock, Irene Poole,and Dalal Badr as The Prozorov Sisters, with Tom McCamus, James Blendick, and Joyce Campion. more...
Macbeth at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival
In: Playwrights & Stage Actors (general)
This is the second time Des McAnuff has directed Macbeth. In 1983 he directed Nicholas Pennell. In 2009, he directs Colm Feore, not with a bang, but a whimper. more...
Ever Yours Oscar: Stratford Shakespeare Festival
In: Playwrights & Stage Actors (general)
Ever Yours, Oscar featuring Brian Bedford at Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Tom Patterson Theatre, is one of the 2009 season's Must See Shows. more...
Sunil Kuruvilla: From Stratford to Sundance
In: Playwrights & Stage Actors (general)
Canadian playwright on The Stratford Shakespeare Festival Playwrights' Retreat, Sundance Institute Ucross Foundation and Stage Scribes to Watch in 2009. more...
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Great Contemporary American Playwrights
In: North American Playwrights
By: Terah Talley
Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House
By: Admassu Kebede
David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly
In: North American Playwrights
By: Admassu Kebede
Top Contemporary American Playwrights
In: North American Playwrights
By: Terah Talley
Biography of James Robinson Planché
By: Amelia Hill
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