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iPhoto caption: The full, masked Walter Kerr theatre (Hadestown's home on Broadway).
Microdosing Normalcy: The Bittersweet Return Home to Hadestown on Broadway
To return to a Canada still starved of this normalcy feels wrong; acrid; frustrating. When I get back to Toronto (or, let’s be real, North York), I’ll simply have to tell my friends and colleagues about the magic of a packed theatre, rows and rows of masks, applause, closeness. They won’t get to feel it themselves for a few months yet, it seems
How to Return Home: Dear Evan Hansen at TIFF
In my heart there is anger; sadness; grief for my more naïve self. Because after Dear Evan Hansen, I do not feel as if I’ve been found, as the film’s tagline so bravely promised I would be. I feel instead as if I’ve been left behind to atrophy in the Music Box Theatre some five hundred miles away, a nineteen-year-old ghost in an echoing auditorium.
iPhoto caption: Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, and Owen Teale in No Man's Land. Photo by Johan Persson.
Cineplex Stage Series Fall 2020: Q&A with Brad LaDouceur
There is magic in the theatre–there is a unique opportunity to see great actors perform in the context of the magic of the theatre. This appeals to both cinema lovers and theatre lovers.
iPhoto caption: Ian McKellen and Danny Webb in King Lear. Photo by Johan Persson.
Up Close From A Distance: Cineplex’s Stage Series Returns
The productions are captured by several cameras that allow the audience to see the performance from centre of auditorium—which is similar to watching a live performance from the best seats in the house.