Michael Healey 🇨🇦
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Joined October 2012
"Why Not Theatre" founder Ravi Jain has won Canada's top theatre prize. Jain was awarded the $100,000 Siminovitch Prize at a ceremony in Toronto tonight.
toronto.citynews.ca
TORONTO — Why Not Theatre founder Ravi Jain has won Canada’s top theatre prize. Jain was awarded the $100,000 Siminovitch Prize at a ceremony in Toronto tonight. The jury praised Jain for “reshaping...
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Absolutely brilliant tribute. The best of all of them. Read with tears. ‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard
theguardian.com
The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked...
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A high quality minister in heritage.
Marc Miller is back in cabinet as the Culture Minister Joel Lightbound adds the Québec Lieutenant, on top of Procurement Dabrusin gets a new title, Environment, Climate Change and Nature Minister, essentially absorbing Parks, which Guilbeault had #cdnpoli
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Domenic Leblanc to Heritage
Carney to shuffle cabinet Monday after Guilbeault’s resignation last week
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Unfocused premise. 50% of the jokes land. Great he did this, but he squandered it.
To double my political productivity and vote count, I have cloned myself. Watch Pierre Poilievre, both of them, address admirers in the press gallery.
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A good friend of mine, a theatre producer, shared a wonderful story about meeting #TomStoppard a few years ago. My friend's company was producing a Stoppard play. Tom came to see it. Whenever my friend looked in on Tom in the VIP room before the show & during the interval... 1/4
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Sonia Friedman’s tribute to Tom Stoppard: “In a noisy world, Tom listened. And in that listening was its own form of genius.”
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Extended periods in opposition do not bring out the best in people
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The madman actually did it: Davies made a pronoun joke that no one got mad at.
Interim NDP leader Don Davies opens opens with “My pronouns are broke and irrelevant.” Very strong performance. Jokes that they tried hip, fit leader before, now gone in different direction for interim leader. “Buffy St NDP.” Fire. Best speech of the night. Bringing house down.
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I remember Stoppard, for the New York Times. https://t.co/tQqVbHtmSW
nytimes.com
In works like “Travesties” and “Arcadia,” the playwright embraced the really big questions and wrestled words into coherent, exhilarating shape.
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Not the obituary I wanted to read today. https://t.co/jZwf9figl8
nytimes.com
Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.
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We at the Review mourn the loss of Tom Stoppard (1937–2025). In celebration of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his Art of Theater interview from the archive.
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‘The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.’ Tom Stoppard 1937 - 2025
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Perfect story from Tom Stoppard obit: His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
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The best Tom Stoppard profile was written by Kenneth Tynan for the New Yorker in 1977: “Essential to remember that Stoppard is an émigré. A director who has staged several of his plays told me the other day, ‘You have to be foreign to write English with that kind of hypnotized
newyorker.com
From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.
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Aw man. This one cuts hard. Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
nytimes.com
Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Paul Wells previews RvR the play on substack https://t.co/sOehjPSsEL
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