Review: Mamma Mia!
When members of your audience hum the music to your show on their way into the theatre that’s a pretty good indication you may have a hit on your ha...
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Review: Island Fringe Festival 2019
Fringe Oddities
Despite his oft-muted mug, your somber scribbler likes a fun time. The Island Fringe Festival’s literally random selection of plays tends to be hit-...
Review: Island Fringe Festival 2019
Fringe Femmes
The Island Fringe Festival’s selection of shows via random drawing tends to produce an eclectic mix, but this year’s slate yielded an interesting ...
Review: Island Fringe Festival 2019
Magic vs. Science
Fringe 2019 features productions that are deep, dark, moving, profound, thought-provoking, stunningly original and/or just plain bizarre. My second-fa...
Review: Real Estate
Playing House
Your reckless reviewer often likes going into a show cold – knowing as little as possible about the play and the players beforehand, so as to make t...
Review: Atlantic Blue
The shortest journey home is always through the heart. For it is there that we store everything of real value in our lives. And it is there we go to f...
Seed saving
Individuals sometimes think that they don’t have a role to play in major environmental issues. Can we really tackle climate change? What about the e...
Claudette Thériault
Vive l’Acadie
The countdown to the Congrès Mondial Acadien is in hours now, but Claudette Thériault—president of this international event that will see thousand...
Will Allen Band
Life’s short. Make the most of it and do what you’re passionate about. In many instances, there’s nothing holding you back. These are the types ...
Lone Oak Brewing
Craft beer business to open in Gateway Village
A new brewery is currently under construction in Borden-Carleton’s Gateway Village. Led by three young entrepreneurs, Lone Oak Brewing is looking to...
A gift of Island poetry
Bren Simmers
Strollers stake out shady maples while kids ride noodles in the wading pool, bob in water wings. Moms up to their knees cool o...
Periwinkle trails
August has arrived. It seems very sudden. We humans have been rushing about trying to ignore time as we embrace every hint of sunshine that comes our ...
Cuisine by the sea
Summer is (mostly) here! With so many amazing seasonal restaurants I thought I’d talk about a few of those spots and some of the other highlights of...
An Island souvenir
Create your own at the Bottle House in Cape Egmont
Tucked away on picturesque Route 11 in Cape Egmont, sits the very unique Bottle Houses. New owners (2018) Angie Cormier (and husband) have embarked on...
Review: Murder Inn
Good Inn Tensions?
Georgetown, sweet Georgetown – the town so gorgeous they named it George-ish (almost certainly not their official motto, though we haven’t looked ...
Review: Spinning Yarns
Tales and Tunes from a homesick Newfoundlander by Stephen Guy-McGrath
Spinning Yarns is a ripping good time. But don’t just take my word for it, see for yourself. Seriously. Stephen Guy-McGrath’s one-man show abou...
Review: Meanwhile in Ward 16
Brilliant Mistakes
“I was a fine idea at the time,” Elvis Costello once sang. “Now I’m a brilliant mistake.” That lyric’s been on your susceptible scribbler...
Review: Crimes of the Heart
According to the principle of Chekhov’s gun, any firearm that appears in the first act of a play must be shot by the third, the point being to exclu...
Review: Boeing Boeing
Ready for take-off
In comedy, they say timing is everything, and the fleet-footed comedic farce Boeing Boeing at the Watermark Theatre revolves around a very specific ti...
Review: Heaven to Me
Songs & Stories of Prince Edward Island
If you’re looking for one more reason to love summer in Prince Edward Island, I have one for you. The P.E.I. Brewing Company is playing host to thre...
Review: Searching for Abegweit
The Island Songs and Stories of Lennie Gallant
Harbourfront Theatre July 9, 10, 23 & 24; August 13, 14, 27 & 28 Performed by Lennie Gallant (lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, bodhran), Jer...
Review: The Island Summer Review
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. Who originally said that I cannot tell you, but I can tell you ...
Review: Kronborg—The Hamlet Rock Musical
Powerful Work
Remounting a production at the Charlottetown Festival after an absence of 45 years, particularly one that had been as popular during its initial two-y...
Review: Where You Are
Victoria Playhouse June 25-July 28 Performed by Francine Deschepper (Glenda), Debra Lynne McCabe (Suzanne), Helen Killorn (Beth), and Benton Hartl...
Review: Ross Family Ceilidh
A rousing, toe-tapping good time
The finest in Scottish and Acadian inspired Island roots music was brought to life in a lively, energetic performance by the Ross Family at The Guild ...
Review: Culture Shock
3x2 = Funny
Lorne Elliott usually works alone. He’s not antisocial – the witty, wild-haired comedian/actor/writer/musician has dabbled in many collaborations ...
Review: Anne of Green Gables – The Musical™
Sweet 19
For your anglophile analyst, the Charlottetown Festival’s endless run of Anne of Green Gables – The Musical™ feels a bit like the British sci-fi...
Trillium time
Trillium time
With the rush of growth in woodlands during June and July, trilliums are popping up all over the place. These woodland wildflowers are quite easy to i...
Baby mussels
It was the strangest thing. The tide was out and we were taking a walk across the Cove, glorying in the sunset and the feeling of being warm! when we ...
Patio season
I’m very happy to declare that patio season is finally upon us! This month, I’m going to take the opportunity to look at some old favourites and s...
Red Island Cider
New facility opens in Charlottetown
A new addition made its way into the PEI beverage scene early this Summer. Business partners James Van Toever and Robert van Waarden launched ‘Red I...
Soul Filter
Mike and Karen Penton aren’t your average married couple living on PEI. That’s because they play in a rock band together. They’ve been married f...
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