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Festival Players’ 2019 summer season features small cast ensembles, one person shows, improvisation, and traditionally scripted plays. We had the opportunity to speak with some of this season’s performers about what they were looking forward to most about working in Prince Edward County.
Plastic Straw Bans, Skeptical Phone Apps, and Never-to-Be-Written Screenplays
- I think it really says something that when people use the phrase the real world, nine times out of ten, the connotations are negative.
Twerking, Facial Hair, and French Kissing
- I’m still ninety percent sure that Roch Voisine was ghost-sung by Anne Murray.
Casting Announcement: Canadian Stage’s Shakespeare in High Park
Canadian Stage’s Shakespeare in High Park — the country’s longest-running outdoor theatre experience — has announced the cast for its 37th season.
Spotlight: Daniel Brooks
Daniel Brooks is a writer, an actor and a director, and in the course of a substantial career (he’s now sixty) he has often combined at least two of those roles on a single project.
Pee Stain, the ‘C’ Word, and New Cheating App
Tony Nappo shares twelve random thoughts for the 139th time. Read about pee stains during audition’s Nappo’s take on the ‘c’ word, a new app for cheaters and more!
Nomination Announcements: 40th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards
Now announcing the nominees for the 40th Dora Mavor Moore Awards!
Drake’s Nappo Hoodie, Getting Caught, and My Dad
Turns out Drake will wear pretty much ANY hoodie to a game if they let him keep it, pay for his Uber, and slip him twenty bucks.
Casting Announcement: Caroline, or Change
The cast has been announced for Caroline, or Change with book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Kushner and music by Pulitzer Prize finalist Jeanine Tesori.
Season Announcement: Festival Players of Prince Edward County and community
The season centres on the idea of community, which is evident in a selection of entertainment this year, including theatre, music, and art.
Sting, Coded Sides, and Cinnabon
I was totally looking forward to that foursome until everyone else showed up with golf clubs.
My 20-year journey with Charlotte
It started with an obsession, an idea I could not shake, a meeting with someone whose life seemed to hang in the balance, and for whom I might be a champion.
Evan Hansen, Audition Show Tunes, and Being Cool
So very cool that Drake wore that Breaker High hoodie to the Raptors game. This could finally be the big break that Ryan Gosling’s career needs to rescue him from relative obscurity and put him on the map again.
Spotlight: Erin Shields
Shining the spotlight on Canadian playwright Erin Shields, who discusses making it in the theatre world with her play If We Were Birds and her new play Beautiful Man.
In Celebration: Art of Time Ensemble turns 20
Art of Time Ensemble—a Toronto-based company that aims to change the way audiences experience classical music—is wrapping up its 20th anniversary season.
Break Ups, Callbacks, and Ryan Gosling
Posting memes of someone else’s quotes or ideas makes them yours as much as putting on a Jays shirt makes you Joe Carter.
Where are the playwrights?
In my final critique at the National Theatre School of Canada some 40 years ago, Joel Miller, who at the time was running the English acting program, turned to me and said “we know you have had some success with your little monologues and mask characters here, but do not ever, ever think you can be a playwright.”