Playwrights & Stage Actors


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Read profiles of international playwrights and their works from Anton Chekhov to Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams to Harold Pinter, Henrik Ibsen, Bertholt Brecht, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett.

Discover talents like Caryl Churchill, Joe Orton, Lillian Hellman, David Hare, Paula Vogel and Doug Wright, and experience the plays that won awards, audiences and rave reviews.

Check here for bios and reviews of productions from classic American tragedy to European satire. Discuss the script, staging, direction, dramaturgy and reception of writers that have shaped modern theatre.Email me with requests or post in the discussion forum.

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Great New York Musicals 2008

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Three top Broadway shows from a Paddy Chayefsky play adapted by Tony winner Harvey Fierstein
to one of a kind Stew, to the high voltage shenanighans of Mel Brooks.
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Great New York Theatre 2008

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The Tony Nominated Top Girls; August: Osage County, and the American premiere of Kicking a Dead Horse are must-see theatre for the adventurous mind. more...

New York Theatre Summer/Fall 2008

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In the Big Apple there's theatrical fruit ripe for the picking be it Tennessee Williams' Maggie the Cat or the Rock n Roll Wunderkind in Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening more...

Jeff Irving on Student Audiences

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Jeff Irving, who plays Jean Fournier opposite Brian Dooley and Nicola Lipman as his parents Kathleen and Benoit Fournier, on timely significance of The December Man more...

Jeff Irving in The December Man

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Jeff Irving visited Montreal's L'Ecole Polytechnique while researching the role of Jean Fournier, a troubled young man who could not escape the tragedy of Dec. 6,1989. more...

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Jul 2, 2008

Wall-E - Little Robo Tramp

For 700 years, Wall-E has been rolling around deserted cites and landscapes compacting the Earth's refuse into infinite cubes during routine Nuclear Winter days.


With luminous puppy dog electro-orbs, the rusted robot brings to mind Charlie Chapin’s Little Tramp.

One day Wall–E discovers Eve, the droid of his dreams, and due to an innocent gift from her rusty paramour, Eve’s mission is compromised and she must leave.

Wall-E, follows Eve to the ends of the earth and beyond in his love for her. Compound this with oodles of fast paced comedic escapades, and very little dialogue including Wall-E’s heartfelt finale, and at times, Wall-E is like a splendid sci fi treatment of Chaplin silent movie classic City Lights.

Eve’s home, the Axiom is a spaceship housing bloated, lazy consumer driven, cyber medicated Earthlings.

Humans these days are always sitting in front of screens - televisions, computers, DVD’s, Blue Ray Players, PlayStations, and as world technology goes into overdrive, these screens grow ever smaller – Ipods, cell phones, Blackberries… Why shouldn’t screens invade our personal space following us around wherever we go?

It’s the next logical step.

In this Consumer Overload Big Box World will we become the Wired Whales depicted in Wall-E constantly clicking for the Next Big Box Thing?

Wall-E’s tricket laden abode delivered another warning – the manual egg beater, bubble wrap, eight track tape, cassette player and the VCR repeatedly cranking Hello Dolly’s Put On Your Sunday Clothes. Wall-E found valid use for these discarded items in conjunction with his Ipod because in today’s disposable world, Wall-E’s wise enough to know that “everything old is new again”

So I'm putting on my Sunday clothes, finding my sweetie and leaving this screen. Like the song says …. “There's lots of world out there, put on your silk cravat and patent shoes, we're gonna find adventure in the evening air.”

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