Theatre

It is worth braving a cold February night just to watch him prance around wearing and not wearing the absent Tom’s clothing.

– Anna Fuerstenberg in Emotional Hook Misses Mark

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Chekhov for Beginners



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Marianne Ackerman

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Hooked, Line and Sinker

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Hooked on Canadian Books, by T.F. Rigelhof, Cormorant Books

by Marianne Ackerman
22.08.2010

Northrop Frye created something of a revolution in Canadian literature by refusing to play the rating game. He treated fiction as a collective body of work, identified themes, links to the Western canon and what it all had to say about the Canadian psyche.

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Summer Reading

by Marianne Ackerman
27.06.2010

Further to my call for summer reading lists, here’s what Cheryl Braganza, Carol Katz and Susan Lempriere have planned. We’ll check back in September to see how far they got… 

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Not to be Missed

by Marianne Ackerman
21.06.2010

Week two of the Summer Literary Seminars – Montreal edition – is shaping up to be a much-appreciated serving of protein in an otherwise fluffy cultural month. Wednesday evening offers a panel featuring editors from The New Yorker, New York Review of Books and Walrus Magazine. The subject is the state of magazine publishing, but [...]

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Summer Reading List

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15.06.2010

Time is our era’s most precious luxury. Mention summer, and some people think g & t by a beach. But most readers of this site, I’d wager, have a list of good books they’re hoping to read when things slow down.

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Fringe Rules

Save The Festival!

by Marianne Ackerman
01.06.2010

As a serial entrepreneur (according to friends), I’ve had to take a deep breath and pour out enthusiasm for many a cause. It isn’t hard. You just have to believe what you’re saying is true. Conviction is highly contagious.

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Beautiful Losers

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18.05.2010

My first email to Peter McAuslan asking for an interview for my monthly Gazette column met with a rebuff. “No thanks, I’ve had enough publicity lately,” he said. When I insisted the story wasn’t about him, it was about the Empress Theatre (a.k.a. Cinema V, on Sherbrooke St. West), he asked for my phone number. [...]

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Bringing PET To Life

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Trudeau Stories, Centaur

by Marianne Ackerman
11.05.2010

The enigma of Pierre Elliott Trudeau is a bug Canadians will never fully get out of our system. His presence redefined a somewhat dowdy country in the eyes of the world, leaving us with a collective anxiety about whether we quite measured up. Brooke Johnson has captured this strange ambivalence in a beautiful one-woman show [...]

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