Family Place hosts free family programs in Summerside, Miscouche, Kinkora, Kensington, and Borden-Ca [ ... ]
The City of Charlottetown's Parks and Recreation Department is organizing several programs this spri [ ... ]
On March 4, the PEI Symphony Orchestra presented “Dvořák 8 and More” under the direction of guest conductor Dinuk Wijeratne.
I love watching how conductors interact with the orchestra and Wijeratne is particularly fun. Described by the NY Times as “exuberantly creative,” the multi-talented composer / performer / conductor was physically almost balletic
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Two McFaddens enter, one leaves. Not as grimly gladiatorial as it sounds, but still an accurate summary of the spectacle on offer at The Guild this January, where accomplished father-son acting duo William and Corin McFadden starred in AMS Entertainment’s production of The Sunset Limited, directed by Mahdi Selseleh.
Written by acclaimed long-time
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The Canada 150 performance had me seeing the PEI Symphony Orchestra from a whole new perspective—from behind, to be specific. In the second concert of the PEISO’s fiftieth season, the orchestra collaborated with many diverse elements. One was the Confederation Singers, of which I am a member.
Soooo…the choir has been working hard and I promised this
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Until recently, I’d never visited The Shop Around the Corner — which is weird, since it sits at the intersection of two of your old-timey opiner’s favourite avenues of entertainment: Christmas stories and Jimmy Stewart movies.
The original 1940 film’s been on my cultural to-do list for ages now — I’ve even had a copy of the movie
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Sold out! Those are the words you want to hear about the first performance of a symphony orchestra’s 50th season—unless, of course, you were trying to get last-minute tickets for the PEISO’s October 15 concert, Beethoven ‘Eroica’ & Ten Strings And A Goat Skin, presented under the direction of conductor Mark
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The Charlottetown Festival takes a lot of guff from critics about artistic integrity, cultural nationalism and such whenever they stage yet another recycled American jukebox musical (like the admittedly entertaining confection Million Dollar Quartet); but in the spirit of fair play, we grumpy media types should also take note when the Festival
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Island audiences tend to give standing ovations to just about everything, regardless of the quality of the play or the performance. I’ve seen standing ovations for merely good shows, okay shows, even downright crummy shows, as if PEI stood for “Proclaims Excellence Indiscriminately.”
These vertical ovationists presumably mean well, but the
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There’s an old saw about writing what you know, and young local thespian Rory Starkman definitely walks that talk as the author/director/star of Just the Way It Is, one of the more intriguing entries in 2017’s Island Fringe Festival.
A self-described “non-binary” person who identifies as neither male nor female, Starkman plays Maddox, who
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May 21–26
City Cinema
14A, mature theme, language may offend
Dir: Paolo Virzi, Italy/France, 112 mi [ ... ]
Elizabeth Rollins Epperly
Illustrated by Carolyn Epperly
May 2
UPEI
Six-year-old Elspeth’s [ ... ]
May 2
Cineplex Cinemas Summerside
The Filmworks Summerside final screening of the season will be pre [ ... ]
Local hip-hop scene showcased at Bon Voyage EP release party Submitted by Tyler Knockwood A huge t [ ... ]
ACT: A Community Theatre will be hosting auditions for it's upcoming production of Rainbow Valley, a [ ... ]
ZZ TOP are bringing The Tonnage Tour to Credit Union Place in Summerside on August 14. Billy [ ... ]
