The Globe and Mail6 hours agoCanadian Stage to produce Jeremy O. Harris’s controversial Slave Playverified_publisherThe Globe and Mail - Aisling MurphyCanadian Stage will produce the Canadian premiere of Slave Play, American playwright Jeremy O. Harris’s controversial work about race, sex and power dynamics, this fall. Set on a Virginia plantation, the play follows three interracial couples as they undergo “antebellum sexual performance therapy,” …
The Globe and Mail8 hours agoBrutal drama Magazine Dreams cannot escape star Jonathan Majors’s equally ugly headlinesverified_publisherThe Globe and Mail - Barry Hertz• Magazine Dreams• Written and directed by Elijah Bynum• Starring Jonathan Majors, Haley Bennett and Taylour Paige• Classification N/A; 124 minutes• Opens in select theatres March 21 Magazine Dreams makes a few big requests of its audience. Not only does the ruthlessly dark character study about a …
The Globe and Mail9 hours agoInside Biblioasis and Mark Bourrie’s mad rush to get a Pierre Poilievre bio on shelvesverified_publisherThe Globe and Mail - Josh O’KaneThe world was a very different place last May, when historian Mark Bourrie met Biblioasis publisher Dan Wells for coffee in Windsor, Ont., to discuss a book idea. Polling at the time suggested Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was a prime minister in waiting. A book about his rise and the ideas …
The Globe and Mail10 hours agoThe Studio’s Seth Rogen, Catherine O’Hara on premiering ‘a Canadian heavy show’ about Hollywood amid tensions with U.S.verified_publisherThe Globe and Mail - J. Kelly NestruckThe Studio, a new Apple TV+ comedy premiering on March 26, is a love letter to American filmmaking – with a lot of Canadian talent behind it. The 10-episode series set in a satirical version of Hollywood is directed and written by long-time comedic partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg – whose …
The Globe and Mail13 hours agoTIFF veteran Diana Sanchez to lead Hot Docs after tumultuous yearverified_publisherThe Globe and Mail - Barry HertzAfter a tumultuous year that witnessed a programmer exodus, a leadership overhaul and the temporary shuttering of its flagship cinema, Toronto’s Hot Docs announced Thursday that Canadian film festival veteran Diana Sanchez will become the organization’s new executive director. Sanchez, who spent two …
The Globe and Mail16 hours agoElton John wins $100,000 Glenn Gould Prize for art that has been ‘translated into something much greater’verified_publisherThe Globe and Mail - Brad WheelerBritish pop legend Elton John is the 15th winner of the Glenn Gould Prize, an international award given since 1987 to a living artist whose “unique lifetime achievement contribution has enriched the human condition.” The honour from the Toronto-based Glenn Gould Foundation comes with a $100,000 …
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