Francis Brian Shaw opens his comedy show The Fancy Brain Show: Shambolic’er at the Calgary Fringe Festival by saying ‘this is a comedy show, there is no art happening here.’ He chats with the small audience (of only 5) about his comedy career and where he started (Nanaimo Bridge, BC) and where is is now. He […]
The Vagina Monologues are a series of stories from real women about, well, vaginas. Playwright Eve Ensler compiled more than 200 interviews with women talking about everything, from sex, to birth, to orgasms. The monologues focus on the vagina, but they tell stories stories about being a woman. The play is being put on in […]
Manhattan’s newsboys are going on strike in Broadway Across Canada’s stage production of Disney’s Newsies and it’s great to watch. The musical, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman, is based on the 1992 film Newsies, which actually stemmed from a real world strike of newsboys in 1899 in New York City. The […]