'da Kink in my Hair
Trey Anthony at TEDxToronto
Trey Anthony speaking at TEDxToronto. Her talk “Coming Out of Your Box” focuses on her passion, creating her identity, and her call to action.
Source: TEDx Talks
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Why the hit play turned musical
Trey Anthony’s explanation for why her hit play ‘da Kink in my Hair is now a musical.
Source: The Calgary Herald
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“Canada’s Sherlock Holmes”
In Vancouver in the 1930s, forensic scientist and toxicology expert John F.C.B. Vance was the only forensic scientist on staff at a police department in the country.
Source: Vancouver Police Museum
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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”.