A veteran entertainment executive, Dennis Kucherawy has worked in film exhibition and live theatre on Broadway, in London's West End and in Canada. An award-winning journalist, he has covered the Canadian and international arts and culture scene for more than 35 years. His work has been published throughout Canada, the United States and in Austria. He has appeared on TVOntario as well as on various CBC Radio programs including "Sunday Morning" and "Morningside." His long and varied career also includes extensive work in business, government and politics, especially in areas of civil rights, tolerance, inclusion and culture. He is also a skilled classical and popular music pianist. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario, Dennis was born and raised in Welland, Ontario and now lives in downtown Toronto with his wife, Karen. He throws right and bats left.
BWW Preview: Inside A Rare Screening Of The Wars Movie At TIFF's Bell Lighthouse
November 8, 2014
November 8, 2014
On Tuesday, Nov. 18th, two weeks after Remembrance Day, Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox will present one of Canada's greatest ... and rarely seen anti-war movies - Robin Phillips' adaptation of Timothy Findley's The Wars, (a Canadian-West German co-production.) It won the 1978 Governor General's Prize for literature. Findley also wrote the screenplay.
EXCLUSIVE: Song List Announced for Acting Up Stage's Uncovered: Billy Joel and Elton John
November 5, 2014
November 5, 2014
In just over two weeks since she wowed crowds at Soulpepper's Global Cabaret, the great Jackie Richardson joins some of Canada's finest musical theatre talent to celebrate the ;music of Billy Joel and Elton John. Following last year's sold-out Sting concert, 'Uncovered: Billy Joel & Elton John,' this is Acting Up Stage Company's eighth annual concert dedicated to the musical catalogue of a pop star. And for the first time this year, the company has added a second concert to meet demand. The concert will take place Wednesday and Thursday Nov. 12th and 13th at Toronto's Koerner Hall in the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning, aka the Royal Conservatory of Music. Show time is 8 p.m.
BWW Review: Soulpepper's GLOBAL CABARET
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014
Without a doubt, Soulpepper Theatre Company's Global Cabaret Festival is my favorite Toronto arts festival. It's like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. Forrest Gump would dig it. Each year I'm tempted to bring my sleeping bag and just camp out for the weekend.
BWW Review: Factory Theatre's THE ART OF BUILDING A BUNKER
October 25, 2014
October 25, 2014
The award-winning one-man play 'The Art of Building a Bunker' now on at Factory Theatre Lab, is about a desperate outsider named Elvis Goldstein who is incapable of experiencing love and the consequences that follow. His namesake, of course, was the King of Rock n' Roll. This homunculus is the King of Pain. He is also a vicious bigot.
BWW Review: WHAT MAKES A MAN at the Berkley Street Theatre
October 22, 2014
October 22, 2014
While reviewing What Makes a Man (WMAM), now playing at the Berkley Street Theatre, it's tempting to comment on what's not there, what could and should be there, rather than what is there. What is on display is a marvelous musical stage portrait of Charles Aznavour, the world renowned French singer/songwriter, actor and political activist/diplomat. A man of the world, he is capable of singing in five languages. One of the last surviving 'showmen,' he still is capable of filling the world's most prestigious concert halls. For example, a year ago he performed for the first time in 25 years at London's Royal Albert Hall. Demand was so great, a second concert was booked there for this past June.
BWW Review: HELEN LAWRENCE at Canadian Stage
October 20, 2014
October 20, 2014
'Helen Lawrence,' now playing at Toronto's Bluma Appel, theatre, is an entertaining, multi-media presentation of a 1940s film noir story hampered by a thin script by Chris Haddock (co-written with Stan Douglas.) During the first five minutes, you tend to be overwhelmed by the show's blue compositing technique in which the live action onstage is enhanced by its larger-than-life, black-and-white close-up projection on a scrim in front of the actors. But the technical ingenuity shortly wears off, and you're left with a complex plot, heavy on exposition and light on action and tension.
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