Interviews

Q&A: Maggie & Pierre

Lauren Gillett — Fri, 04 May 2018 13:22:31 +0000

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Kaitlyn Riordan tackles multiple iconic roles in Linda Griffiths' beloved one-woman play

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Presented by timeshare
Written by Linda Griffiths with Paul Thompson
Directed by Rob Kempson
Starring Kaitlyn Riordan

Linda Griffiths' Maggie & Pierre captures the global fascination around Margaret and Pierre Trudeau, and the highs and lows of their explosive relationship. This month, timeshare's production directed by Rob Kempson and starring Kaitlyn Riordan, lands in Toronto at the Tarragon Theatre Workspace following an acclaimed run at the Thousand Islands Playhouse in 2017.

Here, we chat with Riordan about her experience working on this Canadian classic.

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Tarragon Theatre

Q&A: Undercover

Lauren Gillett — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 01:12:10 +0000

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Rebecca Northan on mystery, improv and inviting audience members to play the detective in her latest show

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Co-Produced by Vertigo Theatre and Tarragon Theatre
Written by Rebecca Northan and Bruce Horak
Directed by Rebecca Northan

Dora Award-winning theatremaker Rebecca Northan (Blind Date) returns to Tarragon Theatre this season with a her new show Undercover, a unique improvised production where one audience member is chosen to solve a murder mystery at each performance.

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Tarragon Theatre

Q&A: Michael Therriault

Lauren Gillett — Wed, 10 May 2017 12:58:42 +0000

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Canadian actor makes his Shaw Festival debut with two comedic performances

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Presented by Shaw Festival Theatre

Another Shaw Festival season is underway and Michael Therriault has a packed schedule to manage with roles in two productions—this is his first season with the company.

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Wed, 2017-05-10 - Sun, 2017-10-15

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Shaw Festival Theatre

Q&A: The Circle

Lauren Gillett — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:59:17 +0000

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Calgary's Geoffrey Simon Brown on exploring good and evil, teenagedom, and his Tarragon Theatre debut

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Presented by Tarragon Theatre
Written by Geoffrey Simon Brown
Directed by Peter Pasyk

Calgary-based playwright Geoffrey Simon Brown wrote The Circle as his final work while at the National Theatre School. This Fall, Tarragon Theatre brings the play (which follows teenagers coming together at a high school garage party) to Toronto as part of the company's 2016/17 season.

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Sun, 2016-10-30 - Sun, 2016-11-27

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Tarragon Theatre

Q&A: TomorrowLove™

Lauren Gillett — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 04:00:00 +0000

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Amy Keating challenges herself in Rosamund Small's latest immersive show

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Presented by Outside The March
Written by Rosamund Small
Directed and developed by Mitchell Cushman

Following the success of Vitals (2014 Dora Awards for Outstanding Production and Outstanding New Play), Outside The March has a new show opening this November. TomorrowLove™ is an intimate immersive encounter that imagines the future of romantic connection. Written by Rosamund Small and directed by Mitchell Cushman, the experience promises to be a hot indie ticket this season.

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Sat, 2016-11-19 - Sun, 2016-12-18

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The Aorta

Q&A: All But Gone

Lauren Gillett — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 15:56:32 +0000

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Opera star Shannon Mercer on her role in Necessary Angel's new Beckett rhapsody

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A Necessary Angel Production in Association with Canadian Stage
Featuring short plays by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Jennifer Tarver
Musical direction by Dáirine Ní Mheadhra

Following Queen of Puddings' sold-out hit Beckett: Feck It! (2012), Necessary Angel and Canadian Stage present All But Gone, a contemporary musical exploration of the absurd and evocative imagery of Samuel Beckett.

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Sat, 2016-10-15 - Sun, 2016-11-06

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Berkeley Street Theatre

Q&A: The Summoned

Lauren Gillett — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 23:37:13 +0000

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Fabrizio Filippo talks about his tech-themed play premiering at Tarragon Theatre

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Presented by Tarragon Theatre
Written by Fabrizio Filippo
Directed by Richard Rose

In his new play The Summoned, premiering this spring at Tarragon Theatre, Canadian screenwriter, actor and playwright Fabrizio Filippo explores how technology is changing society as we know it.

Following the death of a billionaire tech visionary, the most important people in his life are summoned to an airport hotel for the reading of his will. What transpires is nothing short of a paradigm shift in the very future of technology and human nature.

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Wed, 2016-04-20 - Sun, 2016-05-29

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Tarragon Theatre

Q&A: Alice In Wonderland

Lauren Gillett — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:52:32 +0000

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Tara Rosling on becoming Alice in new Shaw Festival production

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Adapted for the stage by Peter Hinton
Music by Allen Cole
Based on the book by Lewis Carroll
Directed by Peter Hinton
Musical direction by Allen Cole
Choreography by Denise Clarke

What better way to celebrate the arrival of spring than with a visit to Niagara-on-the-Lake for the opening of the

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Wed, 2016-04-27 - Sun, 2016-10-16

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Shaw Festival Theatre

Q&A: Reframed

Lauren Gillett — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:01:25 +0000

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Acting Up Stage Company's Mitchell Marcus talks about innovative partnership with AGO

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Presented by Acting Up Stage Company and the Art Gallery of Ontario
Written and composed by Sara Farb & Britta Johnson, Erin Shields & Bryce Kulak and Julie Tepperman & Kevin Wong

Reframed is Acting Up Stage Company’s latest initiative to foster Canadian composers, lyricists, and bookwriters and the creation of new Canadian musical theatre, in partership with the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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Tue, 2016-04-12 - Sun, 2016-04-17

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Art Gallery of Ontario

Q&A: Disgraced

Lauren Gillett — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 04:00:00 +0000

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Ali Momen talks about his role in Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning play

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Presented by Mirvish Productions and Hope and Hell Theatre Company
Written by Ayad Akhtar
Directed by Robert Ross Parker

Following sold-out engagements in Chicago, London and New York, Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced is coming to Toronto from April 3 to 17, 2016 as part of the Off-Mirvish series. Disgraced explores the stories we tell our friends, the secrets we tell our lovers and the lies we tell ourselves to find our place in the American Dream.

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Sun, 2016-04-03 - Sun, 2016-04-17

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CAA Theatre (Formerly The Panasonic)

Q&A: Chimerica

Lauren Gillett — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:02:25 +0000

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Paul Sun-Hyung Lee on the cost of heroism and working with director Chris Abraham

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A Canadian Stage and Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre production
Written by Lucy Kirkwood
Directed by Chris Abraham

The jumping off point of Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica is the real-life photo taken in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989 by AP photographer Jeff Widener, which quickly became one of the most iconic pieces of photo-journalism in history.

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Tue, 2016-03-29 - Sun, 2016-04-17

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Bluma Appel Theatre

Q&A: Pyaasa

Lauren Gillett — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 05:00:00 +0000

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Anusree Roy on remounting her Dora Award-winning play at Theatre Passe Muraille

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Presented by Theatre Passe Muraille
Written by Anusree Roy
Directed by Thomas Morgan Jones

Anusree Roy's Pyaasa won two Dora Awards for Best New Play and Outstanding Performance by a Female in 2008. This month, the hit show returns to Theatre Passe Muraille for a new audience of theatregoers.

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Thu, 2016-03-03 - Sun, 2016-03-27

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Theatre Passe Muraille

Q&A: Grey Gardens

Lauren Gillett — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:15:06 +0000

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Lisa Horner talks about performing in musical adaptation of Grey Gardens

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Presented by Acting Up Stage Company
Book by Doug Wright, Music by Scott Frankel & Lyrics by Michael Korie
Based on the film Grey Gardens by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Mayer and Susan Froemke
Directed by Ann Hodges

Based on the 1976 cult classic documentary, Grey Gardens is a musical about two “staunch” and legendary women: Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale—the infamous aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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Fri, 2016-02-19 - Sun, 2016-03-06

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Berkeley Street Theatre

Q&A: Mustard

Lauren Gillett — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 05:00:00 +0000

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Kat Sandler on imaginary friends and her new play premiering at Tarragon Theatre

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Presented by Tarragon Theatre
Written by Kat Sandler
Directed by Ashlie Corcoran

Kat Sandler is a writer, director and artistic director of Theatre Brouhaha where she has staged 10 original plays in the last four years including Punch Up (2014 Best of Fringe), Delicacy (2013 Summerworks Spotlight Award) and Help Yourself (2012 Best of Fringe, Fringe New Play Contest winner) as well as

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Tue, 2016-02-02 - Sun, 2016-03-13

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Tarragon Theatre

Q&A - Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

Lauren Gillett — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 20:13:54 +0000

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Tracey Power on celebrating Canadian work and touring her show across the country

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Presented by Theatre 20 with the support of Theatre Passe Muraille
A Firehall Arts Centre production
Directed and conceived by Tracey Power
Musical direction and arrangements by Steven Charles

Since premiering at Vancouver's Firehall Arts Centre in 2012, Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen has made stops in Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Calgary, Victoria, Vernon, Banff, Fort McMurray and Edmonton. This month, the critically-acclaimed cabaret lands in Toronto at Theatre Passe Muraille.

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Wed, 2016-02-03 - Sun, 2016-02-21

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Theatre Passe Muraille