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In the beginning was the word ... TVO series tells the story of reading

S peaking with Alberto Manguel, it's clear he's hugely proud of the new television series he narrates. Just don't get him started on the title: Empire of the Word . "I'd like them to take the title away and burn it. The title is not mine," he growls in ...

From JAMES BRADSHAW, Globe and Mail,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mark Johnston,  Carl Sagan,  BBC

Michel Marc Bouchard: ‘My next play will be about big lies'

Playwright and screenwriter Michel Marc Bouchard has found fame both in his native Quebec and farther afield, sculpting and adapting many of his nearly 30 French-language plays to the tastes of new audiences. But his latest offering, The Madonna ...

From JAMES BRADSHAW, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Madonna

NEW MOON, NEW MEDIA / TWILIGHT MANIA

I f tweets sounded like they're spelled, the mania surrounding The Twilight Saga: New Moon would have mid-November chirping like a sunny spring day. Twitter has been swelling with buzz about the Twilight series' second film. On Nov. 16, hourly Twilight - ...

From JAMES BRADSHAW, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Robert Pattinson,  Kristen Stewart

Arbitration vote prompts return to table in museum strike

A fter 59 days on the picket lines, employees from a pair of Canada's national museums voted in favour of taking their dispute to arbitration. Instead, the move prompted the first return to the negotiating table in six weeks. Members of Local 70396 of ...

From JAMES BRADSHAW, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rona Ambrose,  House of Commons,  John Gordon

Time for a bigger TV picture

T he battle to be waged before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission this week over the difficulties faced by broadcasters presents regulators with a conundrum. On one hand, the major broadcasters (CBC, CTV, Global, etc.) argue ...

From JAMES BRADSHAW, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: CBC,  James Moore

Des Walsh adapts Garcia Lorca for the Rock

W hen Des Walsh – poet, playwright, screenwriter and musician – first read Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma , it leapt off the page. The tale of a Spanish woman in a remote community spiralling into hopelessness and driven to terrible acts – well, it ...

From JAMES BRADSHAW, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Richard Rose,  Halifax Corp

Dead baby mystery gets opera treatment

There's the adulterous husband, the prudish and suicidal wife, the shadowy house guest, the seductress and the innocent young girl who never imagined that the ceiling of her bedroom contained a gruesome secret – to Dean Burry it all screamed, “write an ...

From JAMES BRADSHAW, Globe and Mail,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: CBC,  Agatha Christie,  Peter Mansbridge

A new theatre for Famous People Players

It's common to hear Diane Dupuy's friends and supporters describe her as a “force of nature.” But nature's own forces and a city strike have slowed even her formidable momentum. The founder of Famous People Players, a Toronto fixture for 35 years, ...

From JAMES BRADSHAW, Globe and Mail,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Eugene Levy,  Jim Flaherty,  Paul Newman,  Pierre Trudeau,  Tony Bennett

Puppeteer Ronnie Burkett handed $75,000 award

Master puppeteer Ronnie Burkett has won the 2009 Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre – a distinction that comes with a welcome $75,000, no strings attached. With the prize allocated for a designer this year – it also rewards playwrights and ...

From JAMES BRADSHAW, Globe and Mail,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twinkle (musician),  Requiem (designer),  Feist (musician),  Robert Lepage

Mother Corp. gussies up her all-news baby

R egular CBC News viewers across the country could be forgiven for doing a double take this week when tuning into what used to be Newsworld, the all-news channel now restyled as the CBC News Network, or CBC NN. That name … Doesn't it strongly resemble ...

From GUY DIXON AND JAMES BRADSHAW, Globe and Mail,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: CBC,  NPR,  Walter Cronkite,  Hiscox,  Peter Mansbridge

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