| DECEMBER, 2005 |
MERRY
CHRISTMAS,
 HAPPY
HANNUKAH,
HAPPY
HOLIDAYS! |
| Canterbury Improv: The Connors Cup Finals are played at the Museum of Nature, Saturday, December 3, 7 p.m., with Brookfield, Canterbury, Cairine Wilson, Immaculata, St. Matthews, and Nepean. Tickets: $9-students, $12-adults available at the door CIG Finals are in April, the Ottawa competition
is in March this year. |
| See MATT EDISON, and other excellent playwrights
at The Wrecking Ball 3, as they bring news
headlines to the theatre in short plays. Dec 18, 8 pm., 1087 Queen St. W., Toronto. Pwyc (Actors Fund of Canada benefit). Each writer has only a few days to write a short play with overtly political themes. The plays are given short rehearsals in advance of staged readings. Add music, a hundred or so people hungry for meaningful theatre and, voila, you have a Wrecking Ball. http://thewreckingball.ca/performances/209/wb3 |
| MARTIN GERO returns with KURT SMEATON to compete as Shelley's Sweet Sixteen at Clinton’s Catch 23 Improv: the Christmas Show, Mon., Dec. 19, 9 pm, $5. www.catch23improv.com |
| JESSE BUCK is in Ottawa, still committed to clown and creativity. |
| ANDREW MORPHEW is back in Ottawa. |
| SARAH McVIE performs in Fruitcake Weather,
a performance of poetry, stories and song celebrating the season,
at Ottawa Little Theatre. Dec. 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 7:30 p.m. Matinees: Dec. 17, 18 , 2 p.m. $18 adult ~ $16 OLT members ~ $10 youth (ages 10 to 14) |
| The Stars Return show returns to Canterbury, Feb 11, hosted by MARTIN GERO and KURT SMEATON. Directed by Jim McNabb. |
Check out LEVON HENDERSON: http://www.globalproducer.com/ID16562 You can listen to the song Levon directed, shot, and edited for Jason Mitchel: http://www.jasonmitchellmusic.com/ |
You can listen to JEHAN KHOORSHED’s song Lorraine. http://www.digyourroots.ca/dyr.php?genre=5 Just click on his name or the song. |
| SARAH McVIE plays GCTC in March.
www.gctc.ca |
| Congratulations to Shannon Doern and Chris Sinden whose baby girl, Bridget Lea Doern Sinden was born at 8:42 pm on Friday, December 2., at 9lbs 10oz and 22 inches. She has lots of brown hair and blue eyes! |
| RAOUL BHANEJA is filming a pilot , The Dresden Files |
| NATHAN TAYLOR married Sarah Bezanson in Toronto in November. Congratulations! |
| Jim McNabb is still acting Arts Co-ordinator at Canterbury, and Marjory Bryce is teaching the Shakespeare unit there. |
| DEREK CARKNER has shot a new commercial for 'Myoflex muscle cream', and is teaching courses at the School of Theatre in Toronto. |
| JEN GOODHUE joins Peter Oldring, Lisa Merchant, David Shore, Jack Mosshammer, Aurora Browne, Paul Constable, and others at the Drake for this month's improvised talk show, Sun. Dec. 11th @ the Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen St W., 8pm, PWYC. www.monkeytoast.com |
TYLER WESTERLUND White Cowbell Oklahoma, with
The Midways on Dec.15 and Dec. 16th, at El
Mocambo. $13. |
Catch 23 Improv: Julie Dumais and
KURT SMEATON will return to compete with host Mike
Grajewski, and incidental music by STEVE FISHER,
on Mon. Dec.12 at Clinton's Tavern, 693 Bloor St.
W., 9pm, $5. |
| Congratulations to MARTIN GERO who has bought a house in Vancouver! |
MARTIN GERO is interviewed (more than once)
on DVD in the just–released box-set for Stargate:
Atlantis, Series One. |
| STEPHANIE MOORE is back in Toronto, and she performs a scene with Michael Madsen in a new movie, King of Sorrow, shooting this month. |
| TRISHA ALLISON dances in her first second-year
show in Montreal, Dec 7-10, at LADMMI, ( Les Ateliers
de danse moderne de Montréal), Theatre la Chapelle,
3700 rue Saint-Dominique. Tickets $15. Call 514- 843-7738. |
DUANE KEOGH and The Town Pants
play New York State, |
| TYLEY ROSS and the East Village Opera Company
play at Irving Plaza, New York, NY, Dec
12. They are also on television, on A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts, Dec. 18 and Dec. 25. This notice is from their website: Check out EVOC on a historic radio swap! On December 9, catch EVOC on New York's Q104 (The Classic Rock Station) at 7:45am and on WQXR (The Classical Station) at noon. Listen to live internet streams at WQXR's website and at Q104's website. http://www.eastvillageoperacompany.com/ |
| ROBERT ROSS PARKER directs RAOUL
BHANEJA in a one-man Hamlet, Theatre
Passe Muraille Backspace, Jan 4 – Jan 15, 2006. Phone: 416 504 7529 http://www.hamletsolo.com |
| IRIS LAPID is having a great time at the kibbutz in Israel and is teaching English to Arab children. She will be home in June. |
STILL HAPPENING: |
| MAUREEN WELCH hosts Design U, Mondays, HGTV. |
| RAOUL BHANEJA, Train 48, Global. |
| VIK SAHAY, Radio Active, YTV;This is Wonderland, CTV. |
| JESSICA HOLMES on CBC's Royal Canadian Air Farce. |
JENNIFER GOODHUE, Comedy Inc, CTV |
KURT SMEATON improvises at Clinton's, Toronto,
Monday nights. |
| MARTIN GERO is in Vancouver working as producer and writer on Stargate: Atlantis. TMN. He is also working on Stargate SG-1. |
| STEVE FISHER emails his list and recommendations
for what's on in Toronto, Gracing The Stage,
to anyone who asks for it and many people do! Steve, who follows current
music with a passion, also provides incidental music for Clinton’s
improv on Mondays. steve@gracingthestage.com. |
| ADAM DENAULT hosts his own show on CKCU radio, Tuesday Overnighter , airing alternate Wednesdays, from 2AM to 7AM. |
CD's to buy: Jessica Holmes, 25 Laughs To The Gallon. http://www.airfarce.com/info/25laughs.html Duane Keogh:
The Town Pants, Weight of Words Tyler Westerlund:
White Cowbell Oklahoma, Cencerro
Blanco
Tyley Ross: East Village Opera Company,
East Village Opera Company |
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