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• Sherlock Homes takes part in Shakespeare by the Sea...
  From the open air to a very closed vault, the variety in this year’s Shakespeare by the Sea theatre festival offered something for every weather ...
• Actor's portrayal in 'Wit' stoic, strong and bold
  Literary scholar Dr. Vivan Bearing (Wendi Smallwood) has been diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. A fiercely proud, dangerously dedicated ...
• ‘The Apple The Tree’ features comedy and creepy...
  The lights come up on heavy, agitated, quick breathing. The dank, low ceilings of Rabbittown Theatre enhance the anxiety in the air. The opening ...
• ‘The Battery’ hits The Republic
  A Newfoundland play for a new Newfoundland will start its run today until April 16. “The Battery,” directed by Emma Tibaldo of Playwright’s ...
• Musician/filmmaker strives to showcase ugly-beauty...
  It’s no secret that the local film community is as colourful as our row houses. Flutist-filmmaker Rozalind MacPhail’s new project, “Painted ...
• Hearts beat crimson at red dress soiree
  The Majestic Theatre was glamorous Friday evening, as local celebs strutted their stuff down the catwalk for a worthy cause.The Heart Truth is a ...
• Play examines brothers’ memories of fact and fiction
  It’s 1973. Fresh-faced, cosmopolitan actor Miles (Brad Bonnell) from Toronto visits a farm run by two middle-aged brothers in southern Ontario to ...
• From the mind to the screen to the canvas
  Bruce Alcock first became enamored with the song "Vive la Rose" when he heard renowned Newfoundland fiddler Emile Benoit perform it on CBC Radio. ...
• New documentary promises more grit than goosh
  He's been invading the hearts and minds of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians for decades - capturing the true essence of tragedy and love and ...
• Wangersky's first novel a gritty streetscape
  Don't ever invite Russell Wangersky over to your house. The experience might end up in his next novel. "The Glass Harmonica" details the lives ...
• 'The Next Star' could be in St. John's
  YTV's talent search show "The Next Star," in its third season, will for the first time stop in St. John's Saturday. The show is a reality series ...
• 'The Infinity Plays' - the stuff dreams are made of
  Filmmaker Justin Simms ("Down to the Dirt," "Heartless Disappearance into Labrador Seas)" has always wanted to try his hand at playwriting. In ...
• George Walker's 'Problem Child' a commendable debut
  George F. Walker's "Problem Child" follows the trials and tribulations of a young couple from the wrong side of the tracks as they try to regain ...
• 'Emile's Dream' comes to life
  Playwright Robert Chafe maintains firmly that Artistic Fraud's story of Newfoundland fiddler Emile Benoit "Emile's Dream", is a result of the ...
• Ruth with Grace
  Newfoundland and Labrador has a long theatrical history, but no matter how far we've come, the theatrical pioneers of today never forget those of ...
• Twitter and Facebook and films, oh my!
  Getting a movie made is hard enough. Finding the resources to market that film and get it out to the masses is a whole other puzzle. Telefilm ...
• Looking for an Adventure
  Hormones and emotions rage like white-water rapids in teenagers of all social backgrounds. Experts will tell you it's important to offer ...
• 'Seven Stories': a feast of existentialism?
  Playwright Morris Panych's "Seven Stories" opens as "The Man" (Edmund Stapleton), dressed in a black suit and bowler hat with a matching black ...
• Here be Monsters
  There's magic shows, and there's puppet shows. But together? It's like settling to watch an old episode of "The Muppet Show." Abracadabra Magic ...
• Girls just want to have fun
  When most girls celebrate turning 20, a number of adjectives spring to mind: brash, brazen, ruthless, unreliable. Although this year's St. ...
• From Planet Rock to ABBA
  As the school year kicks into gear, well-known performer Janet Cull hopes many St. John's kids might want to throw a few rock kicks into their ...
• Two acts of war
  Beloved author Kevin Major is known for capturing the province's history in the context of world events and local hearts, and his new work, "Lead ...
• Body of work
  The 17th annual Festival of New Dance gets underway Tuesday, and although the venues are scattered this year due to renovations at the LSPU Hall, ...
• Why don't people like modern dance?
  Dance, and contemporary dance, in particular, are often a little mysterious in most people's minds. It doesn't get the attention of film or ...
• Festival 500 is one big family affair
  Since its 1997 inception, international choral celebration Festival 500 has been expanding its family from biological to adopted, from local to ...
• Artistic Fraud strikes a national spark
  Locally born company Artistic Fraud has become known for producing wildly imaginative works of theatre featuring an inventive combination of ...
• 'The rest is history'
  Although it initially happened by mistake, the Pouch Cove Foundation artist residency program has been inspiring and encouraging artists to ...
• CBC miniseries Diamonds explores political and...
  CBC miniseries "Diamonds" explores political and personal dilemmas By Heidi Wicks Special to The Telegram Bay d'Espoir native Joanne Kelly fell ...
• 'Bent' on being a gay man in Nazi Berlin
  The local theatre company that has become known for staging thought-provoking, boundary-pushing plays is doing it again. "Bent" (occasionally a ...
• Guest Room
  The Leyton Gallery of Fine Art has been eyeing certain up-and-coming artists for a while now, and starting Saturday, members of the public can do ...