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Just don’t call it Radio Drama

04/10/2016 by the editor 1 Comment

By Frank Moher The CBC has been given its money back. That is to say, the immediate infusion of $75 million announced in the Liberals’ budget last month, plus the promise of a $150 million increase each year through 2021, more than makes up for the money leached from it by the Conservatives. Various ideas have […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: audio, Canada, Canadian culture, Canadian media, Canadian television, CBC, CBC Radio, Conservatives, digital media, Hubert Lacroix, Liberals, Melanie Joly, radio, theatre

Triumph of the drama nerds

11/07/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at the pictures on this page), let me hasten to add that I have been proudly a drama nerd nearly all my […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, Justin Trudea, Stephen Colbert, television, theatre

A beloved gentleman of the theatre

10/11/2015 by the editor 2 Comments

By Jim Henshaw David Bolt was the first professional actor I ever met. I was studying theatre at the University of Regina and he was working for the Globe Theatre doing one of their gruelling tours, taking plays to remote gymnasiums and church basements in the dead of Winter. He undertook that cold and uncomfortable […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, entertainment, Ontario, Regina, Saskatchewan, theatre, Toronto

ISIS rampages, artists fuss

08/29/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw It wasn’t the first time somebody has died on stage. Two of recent theatre’s great comedians, Dick Shawn (The Producers) and Sid James (pick any Carry On . . . movie) both did final pratfalls that convulsed their audiences –- until the realization dawned that they were never getting up again. Genesius, the […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Conservatives, crime, humans, Iraq, ISIS, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, middle east, NDP, showbiz, Stephen Harper, Syria, theatre, Thomas Mulcair, United Nations, violence, war

Watch out, Stratford and Shaw: Ibsen Fest is here

03/27/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young Happy World Theatre Day (March 27, 2015) . . .  Ibsen-mania has come to Canada. The city of Oslo, Manitoba has announced plans to create a new festival dedicated entirely to the works of Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, and his lesser-known Scandinavian contemporaries. Oslo Mayor, Hedy Gabler, says she feels the creation […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Manitoba, theatre

Edmonton’s Roxy is gone, but its spirits are safe

01/14/2015 by the editor 1 Comment

By Frank Moher The Roxy Theatre in Edmonton burned down in the night on Tuesday. I grew up a few blocks from the Roxy, so it was where I saw my first movies. That was early enough — in the ’50s and ’60s — that the movies were still preceded by black-and-white newsreels, or so […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Edmonton, Nanaimo, theatre

Why I am a disappointment to J. Kelly Nestruck: Part 2

11/18/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher In the last episode of “Kelly and Me,” I wrote about an exchange via twitter with the Globe and Mail theater critic J. Kelly Nestruck, in which he expressed his disappointment in me for supposing that we might not have the full story of what happened on 9/11. That was over a […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: 9/11, 9/11 conspiracy theories, 9/11 Truth, Canada, Globe and Mail, theatre, writing

Why I am a disappointment to J. Kelly Nestruck

10/15/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher I had an interesting conversation with the critic J. Kelly Nestruck recently, if an exchange on twitter can be called a conversation. I am in the habit, on September 11th of each year, of posting to facebook and twitter a message along the lines of: The best way to honour the victims […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: 9/11, 9/11 conspiracy theories, 9/11 Truth, Canada, Globe and Mail, theatre

A Streetcar Named Disaster

10/05/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By TJ Dawe Blue Jasmine, this year’s Woody Allen movie, is a pretty blatant reworking of A Streetcar Named Desire, but with a vital difference: the Blanche character doesn’t represent Tennessee Williams and his artistic sensitivity — she’s the personification of America, before and after the financial collapse. Here’s her story, in bullet points — […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: economy, film, real estate, theatre

Calgary’s artists rebuild

07/08/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young As I was driving away from Calgary it started to rain. I was on my “C Canada tour,” promoting my new book in Cochrane, Calgary, and Cranbrook. The Calgary event was a reading at Pages — a funky bookstore in the type of funky neighbourhood that doesn’t exist in the minds-eye view […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books, Leiren-Young Tagged With: Alberta, books, Calgary, disaster, music, theatre

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By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

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