Readers of this blog will know that I’m not a fan of musicals. However, when one lands that ticks all my boxes for excellence, I can turn one hundred and eighty degrees. And that was my reaction to It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken. No one was more surprised than I. Going into…
Readers of this blog will know that I have a love-hate relationship with musicals. It’s not that I dislike musicals in general; it’s the musical with unhummable music that I dislike. So it was with some trepidation that I viewed the stage at Theatre Aquarius for Boy Falls From the Sky. It was set with…
If you loved Come From Away and The Last Ship, then MAGGIE is the hat-trick. Community. Family. Motherhood. Sons. Girlfriends. This play has it all.
The Hours That Remain shines a light into the dark corners of news coverage, police investigations and our justice system.
Brent Thiessen’s smile radiates light, love and good-will.
There are public nightmares, and then there are private terrors. We know the former well, or think we do, as they repeat themselves on the news cycle. But a diagnosis for which there is no treatment can be equally harrowing as it slowly and persistently shreds the core of self and family. Dementia is one…
Through a humorously uncomfortable, witty, and insightful conversation, David and Lucy explore the themes of relationships and death…over several glasses of single malts and Chablis.
Last week I commented on a stage performance (North by Northwest) that began life as a screenplay. Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men however first featured on Broadway before it became a film. I’ve never seen the movie. As a result of Theatre Aquarius’ production of A Few Good Men, it’s now on my Must…
When consenting adults can put their imaginations together in virtual reality, what are the implications for morality and ethics? The Nether, a brilliant sci-fi crime drama, poses these questions and others through Jennifer Haley’s tightly written script. The production at Hamilton’s Theatre Aquarius is both spare and elegant; the cast and the creative team have…
If camaraderie, confessions, and competition are the hallmark of a golf foursome, then director Marcia Kash has hit this production of The Ladies Foursome straight down the fairway. Playwright, Norm Foster, has captured women’s voices and social tics in an uncanny manner. It’s funny to the point where laughing is not enough. Spontaneous applause and foot stomping broke…
Bonnie Lendrum 