Our Town: as much as things change, they always stay the same

Sitting at a picnic table beside the main stage tent at Bard on the Beach, Bob Frazer explains that Thornton Wilder and Shakespeare have...

Liam Neeson takes A Walk Among the Tombstones

Aim low; achieve average; feel awesome: this is Liam Neeson’s recent strategy for choosing roles. Your enjoyment of Scott Frank’s A Walk Among the...

How glorious it is: an inter view with The Glorious Sons

Kingston Ontario's The Glorious Sons will soon release a new album, The Union, just days after they play in Vancouver. Brett Emmons, the band's...

Album review: The Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt

The fifth album from these New Jersey rockers, Get Hurt marks a change in the band’s tone with a less celebratory mood and more...

Empathizing with evil in The Drop

Leaving uneasy after seeing The Drop, I looked down and noticed red ink had stained my hands like the bloodguilt the hero (and I)...

Art imitates life in a Fringe show about actors who work at a restaurant

Sometimes life imitates art and vice versa in a serendipitous feedback loop. Pippa Mackie is an actor, and she also works in a restaurant;...

Why road trip stories are so captivating

I have yet to encounter anyone who doesn’t like a good old-fashioned road trip. That’s the truly amazing thing about them: there are so...

Fringe Festival highlights

The Fringe Festival is on its 30th run this year, but I only discovered its majesty in 2013. Its small-sized venues provide just the...

In theory: no budget, no crew, no script

Schrodinger’s cat, dinner party antics, and experimental filmmaking collide in James Ward Byrkit’s directorial feature-length debut, Coherence. This is one head trip of a...

Dramatic Fringe

For Body and Light – 3 stars Slow and pensive, this show was poetry in motion. The poetry and music of Ian Ferrier and choreography...