Book Review: River Music by Mary Sonderstrom
River Music Mary Soderstrom Cormorant Books, 276 pages River Music, the sixth novel from Montréaler Mary Soderstrom, follows the life of Gloria, a pianist who…
Browsing: Scena Arts
Anne Frank lives in New York
The Secret Annex, a play by New York-Winnipeg writer and performer Alix Sobler, asks: “What if Anne Frank had survived and lived in Brooklyn?” As Hitler…
Jean-Philippe Duval: The Cultural Hunter
Jean-Philippe Duval in his studio. Photo Marc Bourgeois Passionate about Québécois culture, nature, and wilderness canoeing, filmmaker Jean-Philippe Duval seems to have been predestined to…
Double Meaning: Margaret Atwood on Pauline
Poet. Trailblazer. Canadian luminary. These descriptors apply as much to Margaret Atwood as they do to the subject of her first libretto, E. Pauline Johnson.…
Théâtre de Quat’Sous: 60 Years Young
Wajdi Mouawad nicknamed it the “great little theatre”. As far as “great” is concerned, Quat’Sous has the fame — and now also the age,…
Anna Karenina: Dancing on the Grave of Love
Is Anna Karenina the greatest novel ever written? Dostoyevsky and Nabokov declared it “flawless.” Faulkner described it as “the best ever written.” Hemingway, Woolf, Proust,…
Cinema
Flash version here. Antoine-Olivier Pilon in Xavier Dolan’s Mommy In Toronto, the TIFF runs from September 4 to 14, showcasing films that run the gamut…
Theatre
Flash version here. This autumn, many English-language theatre companies in Montreal have programmed their 2014-15 seasons with the recent controversy over Quebec’s Charter of Values…
Alice Through the Looking-Glass
by Paul E. RobinsonStory by Lewis CarrollAdaptation for the stage by James ReaneyDirector: Jillian KelleyChoreographer: Dayna TekatchDesigner: Bretta GereckeComposer: Jonathan MunroSound Designer: John GzowskiAlice: Trish…
Canadian Summer Arts Festivals
Flash version here. Luminato Festival (Toronto, June 6-15) This packed ten-day festival is overflowing with too many events to even begin to mention here! Among…
