MARCH, 2006
 

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!


MATT EDISON’s award-winning play, The Domino Heart, is being re-mounted in Toronto, by Column 13 Actor's Co., March 29-April. 8, at Dancemakers Studio (55 Mill St., Studio 313, Building 58, Distillery District, 416-732-7786), Wed.-Sat., 8pm, $12-15.

The Domino Heart is coming to GCTC next year!


JEN GOODHUE performs with Monkey Toast, the improvised talk show, with Jack Mosshammer, Janet Van Der Graff, Doug Morency, and Kerry Griffin, joined by guest Michael Landsberg, Sunday, March 26, The Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen St. W.), 8 pm, FREE.

DENNIS VAN STAALDUINEN plays Captain Corcoran in The Savoy Society’s H.M.S. PINAFORE, Centrepointe Theatre, Ottawa, March 31, April 1, 2, and April 5 to 8. http://www.savoysociety.org/2006/pinafore.htm

Jim McNabb directs a high school theatre award show ( for Ottawa schools) at the National Arts Centre, June 12.

Congratulations to MARTIN GERO who has been nominated for a Screenwriting Award for the Writer's Guild of Canada.

MATTHEW EDISON is playing at the National Arts Centre in The Real Thing, May 10 - 27, and in Toronto at Soulpepper’s Young Centre, June 10 – July 29.

Directed by Diana Leblanc, featuring Matthew Edison, Megan Follows, C. David Johnson, Jeff Lillico, Kristina Nicoll, Albert Schultz


RAOUL BHANEJA and MATTHEW EDISON are on CBC television on March 6, in the premiere of the new series, At The Hotel.

STEPHANIE MOORE is in G Spot, TMN, Mondays 10 pm. Stephanie is in episodes airing on March 6, 20, 27.

JEHAN KHOORSHED plays a St. Patrick’s Day show in Montreal, March 19, at the Cock’n Bull on St. Catherine’s with Rachel Hamilton, and also the St Patrick’s Day show in Ottawa, March 17 at the Cock’n Bull in Bells Corners.

SARAH McVIE plays at GCTC in Swollen Tongues , March 7 - 26, 2006
www.gctc.ca

SARAH McVIE will be leading a workshop, Monologues and Poetic Text, for students, at the NAC, March 18, 2006.
www.nac-cna.ca/en/educationandoutreach/schools/TheatrePlus/

DUANE KEOGH and The Town Pants perform in Toronto March 2, at midnight in the Gladstone Hotel, and in Ottawa at D’Arcy McGee’s in Nepean March 10, in Hamilton March 3 and 4, in New York State March 16-18, and in Big White Ski Resort , Big White B.C., March 24 and 25.
March 17, in Rochester, their St.Patrick’s Day show.
See www.thetownpants.com for dates and places.

Congratulations to The Town Pants who signed with the Maximum Music label. Their Weight of Words album was released on the Maximum/Universal Music Canada label on February 28th, 2006. It will be available in stores everywhere.


JESSE BUCK : Theatrophy presents The Epoch of Coming and Going, “a dark physical comedy,” at the University of Ottawa, May 9th-13, 2006, 8:00pm, Academic Hall, 135 Séraphin-Marion Tickets $15.00, 2 for 1 on opening night.

And at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, August 17 to 27.
http://ca.geocities.com/theatrophy@rogers.com/shows.htm


STEVE FISHER is serving for a month on a coastal defence vessel with the Naval Reserves on the West Coast.

Catching up with CHRISTIE WATSON:
 
CHRISTIE is teaching theatre workshops, most recently in Perth, and is organizing a show March 18, for Muffler Crunch, at Irene’s Pub on Bank St.

CHRISTIE is presently producing two fundraisers in Ottawa:]
The Artengine Electronics Amnesty and Cyber-Pancake Flip-Out, April 8, Club Saw.
Tickets $10.00.
(Old electronic items gratefully accepted)
and
The O.S.S.D. Interactive Gala, April 22, OSSD, Tickets $100.00. ( Really!)
Workshops with Barry Karp included.

CHRISTIE has recently acted in two movies shot in Ottawa - -the CBC Shania Twain movie, Shania and the CTV Tori Spelling movie, Mind Over Murder.

In February CHRISTIE organized a screening of the film, Water, and a talk by the director, Deepa Mehta at the Museum of Nature in Ottawa.

CHRISTIE also played and sang his own music with Crystal Eagles for Mod Boy, Feb 24.

Also, he is heading to Saskatoon in May.


STILL HAPPENING:

 
MAUREEN WELCH hosts Design U, Mondays, HGTV.
 
VIK SAHAY,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. 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
www.thetownpants.com

Tyler Westerlund: White Cowbell Oklahoma, Cencerro Blanco
www.whitecowbell.com/


Tyley Ross: East Village Opera Company, La Donna

www.eastvillageoperacompany.com/store.html


Raoul Bhaneja: Raoul and The Big Time, Cold Outside

www.raoulbhaneja.com

Tyley Ross: East Village Opera Company, East Village Opera Company
www.eastvillageoperacompany.com/store.html