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Billy Elliot’s big-city jive

06/08/2009 By backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Best Tony Awards telecast in years last night. (You did watch, didn’t you? I’m not the only Canadian who watches the Tony Awards, am I? I am? Thought so.) That said, allow me to gripe about Billy Elliot, which danced away with 10 awards, including Best Musical. Actually, my gripe is with […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: film, theatre

Update

02/08/2007 By backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Update to story below: Calgary Herald Editor-in-Chief Lorne Motley has issued a response. He says the paper has commissioned Calgary playwright Eugene Stickland to write a piece on Rick McNair for this coming weekend.

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Theatre wiz Rick McNair deserved better

02/05/2007 By backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

Brian Brennan Rick McNair died in Winnipeg this past week. The Winnipeg newspapers did the right thing. They ran big stories saying what a wonderful contribution Rick had made to the local theatre scene as former artistic director of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, founder of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, storyteller, actor, playwright, opera librettist, and […]

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