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Native Earth Performing Arts in Canada
The Native Earth Performing Arts organization provides affirmation of Aboriginal peoples' talents through artistic expression as they reclaim their history.
Jun 16, 2011
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Kathleen Airdrie
Doctor Faustus - The Rose Theatre, Bankside. Review
Doctor Faustus performed at the Rose Theatre over four-hundred-and-twenty years after its first showing at the same venue. Does it survive the test of time?
Jun 15, 2011
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Tom Ward-Thomas
Harlem Duet: A Canadian Adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello
Canadian Djanet Sears' prequel to 'Othello' fuses a Jacobean and a traditional West African lyricism in its exploration of contemporary race issues.
May 20, 2011
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Catherine Rosario
Williamsburg, Virginia Early Theatre History
The theatre built in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1716 by William Levingston cited as the first in the colonies that later became the United States.
May 16, 2011
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Kathleen Airdrie
A Review of The City Madam by The Royal Shakespeare Company
The Swan Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon stages a play by one of Shakespeare's almost contemporaries as part of its 50th anniversary season.
May 13, 2011
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Leon Burakowski
Bonnets, Would-be Burglars and Bad Manners
Classic novel Cranford hits the road as a touring stage play
Apr 22, 2011
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Paul McGarvey
Quiet in the Land Award-Winning Anne Chislett Drama
Playwright Anne Chislett's Quiet in the Land explores the effects of outside influences upon an Amish community in rural Ontario.
Apr 19, 2011
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Kathleen Airdrie
Blyth Festival Features Original Canadian Plays
The professional, community-based Blyth Festival founded in 1975 develops and produces original Canadian plays that reflect regional and national lives.
Apr 7, 2011
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Kathleen Airdrie
'Dr Faustus' - Staged in Oxford bookshop
On an academic trip to Oxford, I was fortunate to catch the end of a run of 'Doctor Faustus' staged in the renowned Blackwell's Bookshop.
Apr 1, 2011
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Jessica King
Deep Mapping : A Dramaturgical Tool With Literary Focus
Deep Mapping is a fresh technique, developed in 1991 by William Least Heat-Moon.
Mar 28, 2011
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Jeremy Jusek
Hannah Cowley 18th Century English Playwright and Poet
Formidable English playwright Hannah Cowley satirized laws and fashionable manners of society during her successful late 18th-century career.
Mar 14, 2011
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Kathleen Airdrie
The Landers Theatre, A History That Is Still Performing
The Jewel of Walnut Street in Springfield, Missouri, the Landers stands as a testament to entertainment of the past and creating entertainers of the future.
Feb 21, 2011
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Abigail Owens
Percy Shelley and the Theatre, Analysis by Jacqueline Mulhallen
Evaluations of Shelley's work usually focus on his political and religious philosophies. Jacqueline Mulhallen analysed his dramas' suitability for theatre.
Feb 21, 2011
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Kathleen Airdrie
Sarah Bernhardt in Edmonton, Alberta 1913 at the Empire Theatre
World-famous French actress Sarah Bernhardt performed at Edmonton's Empire Theatre January 13, 1913.
Feb 12, 2011
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Kathleen Airdrie
Aristotle's Six Elements of Drama and Importance in Modern Film
Two millennia ago, the famous Greek Aristotle wrote "Poetics" in which he laid out his Six Elements of Drama. How do these concepts factor into film today?
Feb 8, 2011
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Tristan Devereux
The Theatre Guild 1923 New York City Premiere of Saint Joan
Premiered in New York City by The Theatre Guild in 1923, George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan received praise and some recommendations that he rejected.
Feb 1, 2011
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Kathleen Airdrie
Spring Awakening: A History
"Spring Awakening" the hit musical on Broadway is based on a late 19th century German play that tests cultural boundaries both then and today.
Feb 1, 2011
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Nicolette Calhoun
Shaw's Saint Joan Portrayed by Four Actresses 1923-1936
Winifred Lenihan, Sybil Thorndike, Julia Arthur, and Katharine Cornell portrayed Shaw's Saint Joan from 1923 to 1936.
Jan 30, 2011
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Kathleen Airdrie
Canadian Theatre Actresses Were Not Americans
Three 19th and early 20th-century successful Canadian theatre actresses who returned to their home country were often referred to as Americans.
Jan 27, 2011
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Kathleen Airdrie
James O'Neill Actor Father of Playwright Eugene O'Neill
James O'Neill played Othello, starred in "The Count of Monte Cristo" more than 5,000 times, and was prototype for his son Eugene O'Neill's James Tyrone.
Jan 17, 2011
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Kathleen Airdrie
