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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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-Leslie

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-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Jem Bloomfield

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

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By: Feature Writer Jem Bloomfield

Staging Aristophanes Today: Putting On Aristophanes Plays Raises Questions

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By: Feature Writer Jem Bloomfield

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Jem Bloomfield

Surviving the Cold Reading: Six Audition Tips for Actors

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By: Angela Dalecki

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Lynn Redgrave: Shakespeare for My Father

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Domini Blythe and Peter Hinton: Fanny Kemble star loves the work of famed Montreal director

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Domini Blythe: Theatre veteran discusses the extraordinary life of Fanny Kemble

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Fanny Kemble: Actress Domini Blythe on Victorian writer/anti-slavery activist

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The Stratford Shakespeare Festival: The Bard's Playground has a New Name.

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

William Hutt: 1920 - 2007: Michael Therriault fondly remembers legendary Canadian actor.

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Robert Hewett and Lucy Peacock: The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Lucy Peacock: The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Vimy: Vern Thiessen's newest play honours The Battle for Vimy Ridge

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Shakespeare's Will: William Shakespeare’s will is well known for a peculiar bequest.

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

The Last Dawn: Vern Thiessen writes profound History Channel Docudrama

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Sanford Meisner: A Study in Living: Acting Becomes You; the Drama of Life

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By: Juliette Riitters

Vern Thiessen: Playwright maps the human condition through historical fact.

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Graham Chapman: Life of Brian star chats about the Monty Python formula.

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Andrew Strachan: Young actor on his role as Johnny Boyle in Juno and the Paycock

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Juno and The Paycock: Lally Cadeau played Juno Boyle in Sean O'Casey classic

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

James Blendick and Brian Tree: Two stage veterans chat about playing Sean O'Casey's Dublin drunks

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Fiona Byrne: Sean O'Casey's Nora Clitheroe from The Plough and the Stars

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Sean O'Casey: Fiona Byrne chats about playwright known for famed Irish Trilogy

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Sonja Mills on Canadian Theatre: Playwright's view on the fate of smaller theatre companies.

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Sonja Mills and Kate Hennig: Sonja Mills on strong stories in theatre and actress Kate Hennig

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

The Danish Play: Sonja Mills on shaping the story of her great aunt Agnete Ottosen

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Sonja Mills: The Danish Play's relevance has soared since 2002 debut.

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

George Joyce and Ted Follows: A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters is worth the 15 year wait

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

A.R.Gurney's Love Letters: Ted Follows and Louise Reynolds perform in A.R. Gurney gem

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Breakout Performance of 2006: The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead's Lucy Peacock

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Best Designer of 2006: Peter Hartwell crafts theatre sets with great panache.

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Best Director of 2006: Tadeusz Bradecki: visonary of Poland's Stary Theatre

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Best Ensemble of 2006: Amid many fine performances in 2006, one cast stands out in Lillian's Groag's sepia memoir The Magic Fire

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Theatre's Finest Females in 2006: Five Actresses proved why they are Theatre's Finest

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

The Best of 2006: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Ensemble, Best Director and The Best Show of 2006

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Eric Peterson and Daniel Brooks: Eric Peterson chats about director Daniel Brooks and his insight into American playwright Wallace Shawn's Orwellian wake up call The Designated Mourner

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Eric Peterson on Wallace Shawn: Star of Corner Gas, This is Wonderland, Half Life discusses American playwright's prophetic voice

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Wallace Shawn: Author of Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Designated Mourner, A Thought in Three Parts, Our Late Night, My Dinner with Andre to perform his own work The Fever

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Kenneth J. Emberly: Letter of Encouragment to a Canadian playwright from Tennessee Williams

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

Tennessee Williams: Venerable author of The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, Suddenly Last Summer, Summer and Smoke, Night of the Iguana, and I Can't Imagine Tomorrow is still hot, baby!

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

George F. Walker and Dani Romain: Writer of Escape from Happiness, Surburban Motel, Heaven, The End of Civilization, Criminal Genius, This is Wonderland, The Newsroom, Due South, Niagara Motel discusses his co-creative process

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

MultiStages Theatre Company: Are You a Writer or a Budding Playwright? Read on!

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By: Feature Writer Coral Andrews-Leslie

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