The Montreal St-Ambroise Fringe Festival sharmanyarnell May 17, 2013 5949 Years ago (1947) in merry old Scotland, Edinburgh to be exact, small independent theatre groups wanted to present their shows at the Edinburgh International Festival but were snubbed by the more elite groups wh...
Lights up, bring on The Segal 2013/14 Season sharmanyarnell April 11, 2013 4381 The band played Ain’t Misbehavin’ by Fats Waller and don’t you know, that is the production that will be opening the season. The announcement was made right on the heels of the extremely successful Mahalia Jack...
New York: The best of the best sharmanyarnell March 12, 2013 4983 London, Paris, Dublin, Berlin - they all bring out the wanderlust in me. One city does something to me that defies reason. New York. It doesn’t matter what time of year, there is something magical about it. Som...
A Joyful Noise Unto the Lord: The Mahalia Jackson Musical at The Segal sharmanyarnell March 12, 2013 3730 The Mahalia Jackson Musical has hit the stage at The Segal Theatre with a story of perseverance, faith...and joyous song. It is a celebration of the courage and tenacity of a people, their survival, their histo...
Trad – Irish as all heck sharmanyarnell March 12, 2013 2747 About one minute into the play, the laughter starts. Two Irishmen, traipsing across the ‘auld sod’ in search of a descendent, ending up in a graveyard with a doddering old woman and finally at the local Priest...
Gospel according to Mahalia: lifting our spirits with song sharmanyarnell February 14, 2013 3516 What do Edith Piaf, Billie Holliday, Sophie Tucker, Judy Garland and Mahalia Jackson all have in common? Peace. That’s Roger Peace; playwright, choreographer, director and producer. His latest creative endea...
Lost Innocence is the story of Steven Truscott sharmanyarnell February 14, 2013 3172 How the justice system failed him, the murder victim, both families and an entire town The year was 1959. He was 14 years old. He was sentenced to be hanged for a murder he did not commit. Steven Truscott...
Waiting for the Barbarians is a powerful and thought-provoking production at The Segal sharmanyarnell February 14, 2013 3940 There are some plays that need to be mulled over and digested before writing about them. Waiting for the Barbarians, at The Segal Theatre is one such play. Written by author, J.M. Coetzee, it was adapted for t...
See Red – a tour de force now playing at The Segal sharmanyarnell December 12, 2012 3884 Enter Stage Left Red, written by playwright John Logan, is a tour de force that begs the question; do all good artists have to suffer tragic lives to be successful? Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh, Caravaggio, al...
December and Holiday events in Montreal sharmanyarnell December 12, 2012 3047 The temperature has dropped just enough to make you want to put the Christmas tree up and thoughts of baking and shop, shop, shopping are in the mind. (Yes, I know some of you finished it in last year’s sales b...
