Jonas And Barry In The Home At Drayton Entertainment – A Review
Jonas And Barry In The Home At Drayton Entertainment Jonas and Barry in the Home is Norm Foster at his sprightliest and it is getting a superlative production at the Hildebrand Schoolhouse Theatre in St. Jacobs, the smallest in Drayton’s portfolio. Long-time divorcee Barry (Lee MacDougall) is settling in uncomfortably on the patio of the […]
Murder On The Orient Express At Drayton Entertainment – A Review
Murder On The Orient Express At Drayton Entertainment Agatha Christie specialized in writing murder mysteries, the solutions of which invariably made me exclaim “Oh, gimme a break!” And none more so than Murder on the Orient Express whose denouement reaches monumental heights of improbability. Maybe that’s why it has become so beloved by so many. […]
Into The Woods At Drayton Entertainment – A Review
Into The Woods At Drayton Entertainment Forty years after it debuted in 1986, Into The Woods is getting a crackerjack revival at Drayton Entertainment’s St. Jacobs Country Playhouse under the incisive eye of director/choreographer David Connolly. Add a superb cast, great sets, costumes, lighting, projections, and tastefully muted sound design and you have a musical […]
A Woman’s Love List At The Lighthouse Festival – A Review
A Woman’s Love List At The Lighthouse Festival I saw A Woman’s Love List by Norm Foster last season at the Orillia Opera House and liked it quite a bit. This season I took friends to see a remount of the play, with a different cast and director, at the Lighthouse Festival in Port Dover. I […]
The Tao Of The World At The Stratford Festival – A Review
Tao Of The World At The Stratford Festival Playwright-director Jovanni Sy, whose magisterial Salesman in China (co-written with Leanna Brodie) was the smash hit of the Stratford Festival’s 2024 season, is back with an intermittently funny bit of cultural appropriation called The Tao of the World, set in the world of upper crust Singapore. Let […]
Suzannah At Here For Now Theatre – A Review
Suzannah At Here For Now Theatre Suzannah, a meditation on the life of Henrik Ibsen’s wife, by Norwegian Nobel laureate Jon Fosse in a translation by Dr. May Brit Akerholt, is receiving a reverential production under the precise direction of Peter Hinton-Davis at Stratford’s Here For Now Theatre. Fosse presents us with three iterations of […]
Saturday, Sunday, Monday At The Stratford Festival – A Review
Saturday, Sunday, Monday At The Stratford Festival Among the many good things retiring Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino has done during his nearly forty years at the Stratford Festival is championing the work of Italian playwright Eduardo de Filippo (1900-1984). His Saturday, Sunday, Monday from 1959 is receiving a resplendent production at the Avon Theatre under […]
Ship To Shore At The Port Stanley Festival – A Review
Ship To Shore At The Port Stanley Festival Like most Norm Foster two-handers, Ship To Shore begins simply. The deck of a cruise ship. One man. One woman. One deck chair. Who will prevail? But then, to quote a catchphrase from this engaging comedy, the plot thickens. Erin Walsh (Cailin Stadnyk) and James Goffman (Mark […]
The King James Bible Play At The Stratford Festival – A Review
The King James Bible Play At The Stratford Festival The awkwardly titled The King James Bible Play, by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman, is a fascinating melange of ideas and notions of a distinctly feminist cast inspired by the work in the title. It is receiving a sprightly world premiere under the direction of Nina Lee Aquino at […]
The Odd Couple At Drayton Entertainment – A Review
The Odd Couple At Drayton Entertainment The Odd Couple, arguably the best thing ever written by Neil Simon, the United States’ Norm Foster, is getting a laugh-filled revival at Drayton Entertainment’s St. Jacobs Country Playhouse. The basic premise is no doubt familiar to everyone thanks to the long-running sitcom the 1965 Broadway hit inspired. The […]