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...
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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: Highland Storm
College of Piping July 8 – August 15 Performed by House Band: Peter Gallant, Christine Gallant, Max Gallant, and Gilbert Arsenault. Pipe Band: ...
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 t...
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
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...
Review: Tellers and Tunes
An evening of Island music and storytelling
On Monday, June 24, a near-capacity crowd gathered at the Kings Playhouse in Georgetown for an exciting, hilarious evening of rich Island storytelling...
Review: Into the Den
Personal Trainor
Accomplished PEI stage and screen veteran Dennis Trainor is a longtime ensemble contributor who is seldom billed as a solo star. A far fuller picture ...
Review: Popalopalots
Improv comedy at its finest
If you’re in the mood for highly energetic, side-splitting improv comedy, you won’t find a better performance in town than the Popalopalots. The p...
Review: 12 Angry Women
Fiercer by the Dozen
Reginald Rose’s 12 Angry Men started life as a 1954 TV special. It’s been reworked in a host of stage and screen incarnations since then, but TV...
Review: PEI Symphony Orchestra
Climb every mountain
The PEI Symphony Orchestra brought its 51st season to conclusion spectacularly on April 14, presenting “The World of Mahler 3” under the direction...
Review: 7 Stories
Magnificent Seven
Your old-timey observer’s been at this reviewing racket long enough that I inevitably cover certain plays more than once – and Morris Panych’s s...
Review: PEI Symphony Orchestra
Perhaps I should preface this review, perhaps I should preface every review, with a disclaimer: I am no music expert. I’m not what PEISO violinist M...
Anne of Green Gables: The Book
I didn’t know until I read Lucy Maud Montgomery’s biography last year that Anne of Green Gables was her first published book. I also didn’t know...
Review: An Improvised Christmas Carol
Yule Be Amazed
Charles Dickens’ classic 1843 novella A Christmas Carol has been reprinted, adapted, imitated and lampooned endlessly, so coming up with a new spin ...
Review: Four One-Act Comedies Did by Rob MacDonald
We Was Robbed
Ye olde reviewer last visited The Guild to watch a musical based on an Anne of Green Gables novel, so it neatly bookends the month to be back there a ...