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Stratford Festival 2009 Playwrights' Retreat. Daniel MacIvor, John Murrell, Stephen Massicotte, Florence Gibson

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Anthony Herrera's Poetry Theatre: Edwina Sandys, Bill Yates Help As The World Turns Star

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Poetry Theatre – From The Bard to Eric Bogle: Charles Durning, Willie Nelson, Hume Cronyn in Unique Video Verse

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Studio Theatre Shows - Stratford Festival Canada: Playwrights Sunil Kuruvilla, Morris Panych, George F Walker

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Three Sisters - Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Director Martha Henry and Writer Susan Coyne revisit Anton Chekhov

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland: A Review of Richard Foreman's 2008 Production

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By: Amy Freeman

Macbeth at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Review of Scottish Play starring Colm Feore and Yanna McIntosh

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Ever Yours Oscar: Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Actor Brian Bedford Reads Letters of Irish Playwright Oscar Wilde

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Sunil Kuruvilla: From Stratford to Sundance: Rice Boy / Fighting Words Author on New Hot Shot Playwrights

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Fighting Words - Sunil Kuruvilla's Earlier Work: Internationally Produced Play Provides Strong Roles for Women

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Neil Munro and Harley Granville Barker: Shaw Director Discusses George Bernard Shaw Contemporary.

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Playwright Laurie Brooks Talks About Theatre: Author of "The Tangled Web" Discusses Playwriting and Youth Theatre

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By: Feature Writer Michael Jung

Ten Chimneys Broadway Legends' Wisconsin Home: Country Retreat of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Genesee Depot

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By: Christine Nyholm

Glengarry Glen Ross at Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto: Actor Jordan Pettle Discusses Why Playwright David Mamet Resonates With Women

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

2009 Tony Award Nominations: 63rd Annual Ceremony to be Held June 7, 2009

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By: JD Eames

David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross: Soulpepper’s Jordan Pettle on Character John Williamson

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Actor Jordan Pettle on Playwright David Mamet: Soulpepper's Glengarry Glen Ross in Toronto

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Playwright Sunil Kuruvilla's Fighting Words: Author of Rice Boy on his play about Johnny "Matchstick Man" Owen

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Playwrights and the Oscars: Playwrights Throughout the History of the Academy Awards

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By: JD Eames

Adam Kelly - Theatre's Future in Canada: Canadian Playwright Says Audiences Need More Excitement

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Montreal Canada's Theatre 314: Independent Performing Arts Space Teaches Acting Basics

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Adam Kelly on Montreal, Canada's Theatre 314: Actor and Playwright’s Quest for Anglo Independent Theatre

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Adam Kelly - Two Sides of A Montreal Playwright: As Film Polytechnique Opens, Anorak’s Author Stars in Comedy

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Alan's Search For The Best Girl In Montreal: Canadian Playwright Adam Kelly on New Play at Montreal's Theatre 314

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Canadian Actress Denise Fergusson: Star of Stage, Screen and Television; Teacher and Director

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By: Anya Laurence

Canadian Playwright and Actor Adam Kelly: Author of The Anorak Premieres Sexy Comedy in Montreal, Canada

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

The Sunday Salon with Valerie Smaldone: Up-Close Conversations with the Casts and Crews of Broadway

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By: M.L. Costa

Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Christmas Shows: Irish playwright Conor McPherson's Dublin Carol and The Seafarer

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

American Radio Actress Sybil Trent: "Let's Pretend's" Leading Lady on 1930-1950's Radio

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By: Anya Laurence

Robert Wilson - Faust and The Black Rider: World Premiere at Polish National Opera and a November Theatre Hit

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Colm Feore: The How and Why of Hamlet: What Was The Melancholy Dane Really Thinking?

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Blithe Spirit at the Barnfield Theatre: Coward's Supernatural Comedy by Exeter Little Theatre Company

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By: Jem Bloomfield

Colm Feore: Star's Early Days on the Stage: Stage and Screen Actor on Many Roles From Good Guy to Bad Guy

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

The Trojan Women at The Tom Patterson Theatre: Euripides Tragedy Triumph for 2008 Stratford Shakespeare Festival

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Jann Arden: Fave Sonnets, Soundtracks, Novelists: Canada singer on Shakespeare, Mozart, and Great Film Scores

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

2008 Stratford Shakespeare Festival Studio Shows: Brian Dennehy explores plays of Eugene O'Neill and Samuel Beckett

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Samuel Beckett and Themes of Time: An Analysis of Beckett's Use of the Present in Waiting for Godot

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By: Feature Writer Lisa Sutlieff

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2008 Season: Playbill Soars With Brian Dennehy and Ben Carlson's Masterful Hamlet

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Great New York Musicals 2008: A Catered Affair, Young Frankenstein, Passing Strange

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Great New York Theatre 2008: Top Broadway Plays From Tracy Letts, Sam Shepard & Caryl Churchill

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Canadian Actor Thom Allison: Music Theatre Star Allison Compares Shaw and Stratford Festivals

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By: Feature Writer Mike Mackenzie

New York Theatre Summer/Fall 2008: Top Plays and Best Musicals On and Off Broadway in NYC This Season

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Jeff Irving on Student Audiences: Colleen Murphy's December Man - The Relevance for Today's Youth

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Jeff Irving in The December Man: How to Play a Troubled Character in a Poignant Drama

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Alison Lawrence - And All for Love: Daryl Cloran Directs World Premiere at National Arts Centre, Ottawa

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Tom Albrecht and The Birthday Bard: Hamlet Show Celebrates 444th Anniversary of Shakespeare's Birth

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Hamlet: Owen Sound's Roxy Theatre: Tom Albrecht: Deciding To Be or Not To Be The Famed Melancholy Dane

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Tom Albrecht as Hamlet: Canadian Actor of Stratford Festival, NY Fringe and Roxy Theatre

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Actor Jeff Meadows in Betrayal: Shaw Festival Actor on Pinter, Tennessee Williams and Anton Chekhov

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Brian Marler in Betrayal: Canada Trilogy actor on Harold Pinter and J. Karol Korcynski

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Ingrid Rae Doucet in Betrayal: Actress on Harold Pinter,Tennessee Williams and Daniel Lillford

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Betrayal at Theatre and Company: Jeff Meadows, Ingrid Rae Doucet and Brian Marler on Harold Pinter

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Colleen Murphy: Three Addictions: Canadian Iconoclast Playwright's New Works for Film, Opera and Stage

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Colleen Murphy and Aaron Gervais: The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

The December Man: Colleen Murphy: From the Audience of Tomorrow to Dawson College.

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Colleen Murphy: Potent playRite: Award Winner The December Man comes to Toronto's Canadian Stage

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Canadian Actor Seana McKenna: The Clean House, Shakespeare's Will, Burn Up,and The Bard 2008.

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Seana McKenna on The Clean House: Star on Playwright Sarah Ruhl and Fiona Reid in CanStage Dramedy

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The Clean House at CanStage: Sarah Ruhl’s Poignant Comic Fantasy Premieres Onstage in Toronto

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Hedda Gabler: Stability or Scandal: Henrik Ibsen's Femme Fatale: Marital Solidity or Burning Obsession

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Steel Kiss at Green Thumb Theatre: Special Benefit Performance Feb 19 2008 for Actor's Fund of Canada

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Hedda Gabler: My Violent Valentine: Canadian Actor Fiona Reid on Henrik Ibsen's Tragic Protagonist

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Fiona Reid as The Female Hamlet: Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is Reborn at the Shaw in 1991

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Fiona Reid: GWB and David Storch: Omnium Gatherum was at CanStage when George Bush was re-elected.

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Omnium Gatherum: The Clean House's Fiona Reid on Rebeck / Gersten Theatrical Feast

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Canadian Actress Fiona Reid: Omnium Gatherum at CanStage and Hedda Gabler at Shaw Festival

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Breakout Performance of 2007: Fiona Reid in A Delicate Balance at The Stratford Festival

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Actor's Fund of Canada: Gateway Theatre Hosts Special Performance to Support the Fund

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

August Wilson and Joe Turner: A Look at Joe Turner on Stage and in Song

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By: Christopher H Williams

A Christmas Story: Jean Shepherd's Xmas Classic Adapted for Stage by Philip Grecian

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews

Adam Kelly - Dancing Cock Brother: Montreal Actor on His Zany Comedy Quartet and His Love for the Bard

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Adam Kelly: Tragedy and Comedy: The Anorak on Film and Hot Docs' Let's All Hate Toronto

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The Anorak: Audience Reaction: Playwright Adam Kelly - A Candid Chat on His Solo Show

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Adam Kelly on the Anorak: Playwright Changed Script After Lépine’s Mother Broke Silence.

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The Anorak: Montreal Playwright Adam Kelly on Life and Death of Marc Lépine

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Linda Griffiths: Theatre Trends: Age of Arousal playwright on Canadian Theatre Yet to Come

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Linda Griffiths: One Woman Dynamo: Star of Alien Creature, Maggie & Pierre on the Fabulist Element

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Linda Griffiths on George Gissing: Age of Arousal Author on Victorian Novelist's Love/Hate of Women

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Age of Arousal at Factory Theatre: Playwright Linda Griffiths on Sexual Libido from 1885- 2007

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Linda Griffiths on Thought Speak: Age of Arousal Playwright on Innovative Scripting Technique

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Linda Griffiths - Age of Arousal: Nightwood Theatre's TO premiere at Factory's Theatre's Mainspace

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Kate Trotter: More Famous Friends. Murdoch Mysteries Star on Thomas Craig and Angelina Jolie.

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Kate Trotter's Three Feisty Roles: The Strong Women of The Elephant Man, Top Girls, Summer and Smoke.

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The Elephant Man at Canadian Stage: Kate Trotter on Brent Carver and Robin Phillips

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Kate Trotter: Mrs. Kendal of The Elephant Man on playwright Bernard Pomerance.

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Dion Johnstone - Triple Threat: LOTR's Boromir, Stargate's Chaka, Tom Stoppard, and Stratford 2008.

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Dion Johnstone as Tom Robinson: A Cool Kid Cast, a Dummy Arm, and Peter Donaldson as Atticus Finch

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To Kill a Mockingbird: Dion Johnstone on Atticus Finch and Susan H.Schulman

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Arcadia by Tom Stoppard: Entropy, Sex and Rice Pudding in Stoppard's Theatrical Masterpiece

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By: Jem Bloomfield

Staging Aristophanes Today: Putting On Aristophanes Plays Raises Questions

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By: Jem Bloomfield

The Frogs by Aristophanes: Riotous and Crude Theatrical Fantasy from Ancient Athens

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By: Jem Bloomfield

King Lear at Stratford Festival: Dion Johnstone's take on Edmund and Brian Bedford

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Dion Johnstone: Actor on King Lear, Harper Lee, Lord of the Rings, and Stargate SG1

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Daisy Pulls It Off: Denise Deegan's Boarding School Comedy

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By: Jem Bloomfield

Lynn Redgrave on Theatre: Star of 2008's My Dog Tulip on Chekhov, Shaw and Shakespeare

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Lynn Redgrave on Albert Finney: Star of upcoming Jane Austen Book Club on her Cinematic Salad Days.

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Michael Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave: Star of Shine and Gods & Monsters Never Really Knew Her Father.

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Shakespeare for My Father: Lynn Redgrave on Parents Rachel Kempson and Sir Micheal Redgrave.

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Lynn Redgrave: Shakespeare for My Father

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Domini Blythe on Fanny Kemble: Stratford veteran on Peter Hinton's 19th century monodrama

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