N.Y. actor/comedian takes Toronto stage
The story of actor Brad Zimmerman and his pursuit to be famous.
Award-winning playwright pens play about sexual desire
Award-winning Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s latest show Bunny is “a story about sexual transgressions, desire and shame”.
Tweens share title role in hit musical Matilda
The CJN recently sat down with the talented Matilda trio prior to their rehearsals at the Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto
At 86, Montreal playwright takes her final bow
On Aug. 18, the Greenspon Auditorium will bring down the curtain on the last production featuring Aviva Ravel’s hands-on involvement with the stage
Play pokes fun at a bank robbery gone wrong
This summer, 4th Line Theatre is bringing back Alex Poch-Goldin’s hit comedy, The Bad Luck Bank Robbers, based on the August 1961 robbery of the Toronto-Dominion Bank in Havelock, Ont.
Jackie Mason’s daughter among standups at Jewish comedy fest
“I am the daughter of the ultimate Jew. It’s my pedigree, so for a Jewish comedy festival – I’m there.”
Shakespeare scholar helps shape all-female Caesar
The fact that women take all the male roles doesn’t diminish its power, and the audience is held in thrall through all the political intrigues, the betrayals, the pledges of friendship and even the husband-wife dialogues
Finally, The Producers in both English AND Yiddish
If Cecil B. De Mille could have made an epic satire, The Producers, which played at the Segal Centre until July 10, would have been it
World War II-era Hollywood subject of new Montreal play
Ellen David is enjoying wading through stacks of research for her latest project as a director, because ‘Moonlight and Magnolias’ is so improbable yet true
Jewish actor/director wins yet another Dora Award
Richard Greenblatt had a triumphant night at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards on Monday night, picking up the award for Outstanding Direction in the Theatre for Young Audiences division
