The Birds & the Bees
Interview with playwright Mark Crawford
Mark Crawford finds life on the farm an ideal apprenticeship for success as a side-splitting Canadian playwright.
Source: Country Guide
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How Rodgers and Hammerstein Revolutionized Broadway
Listen to this interview with author Todd Purdum about the creative partnership and strained personal relationship of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Source: NPR
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In Praise of Sufjan Stevens! A Christmas Enthusiast! (or, Holy, Holy, etc.)
At its core, Christmas has a mysterious punchline: the incarnation of God as a Christ-child. This is weird. Consider the details: angel visitations, teenage pregnancy, shotgun wedding, the massacre of the innocents, the wise men…
Source: Vice
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Marcus Youssef accepts the Siminovitch Prize
I am the child of an Egyptian father and Anglo-American mother. As a mixed-race writer who grew up in North America in the 1970’s and 80’s, before mixed-race was an official thing, I believe my…
Source: Siminovitch Prize
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Podcast: The Wedding Party, All in a Day
We hear about what goes on backstage during Kristen Thomson’s play “The Wedding Party”.
Source: CBC
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Michael Frayn interview
From his Fleet Street satire Towards the End of the Morning to the theatrical in-jokes of Noises Off, journalist, novelist and playwright Michael Frayn has made a career from uncovering the absurdities of real life….
Source: The Guardian
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Michael Frayn: Farce and the uncertainty principle
“I saw [the show] from backstage one night, and thought it was funnier than what was going on out front. It made me think I’d like to write a farce seen from backstage. Then Michael…
Source: The Independent
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The real von Trapps
The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the von Trapp family, who formed a touring singing act and later fled Austria for America at the beginning of WWII.