Blair Williams News

BWW asks the cast of PIG, "How far would you go for love?" Bruce Dow, Paul Dunn and Blair Williams are the stellar men forced to use their well-chiseled acting muscles to bring this challenging story to life. In advance of their Opening Night this Thursday September 19, BWW's Jeff Madden sat down for a stimulating chat with the three gentlemen and found out not only how difficult it was to 'go there', but also how difficult it was just to say 'yes' to the job.

An imaginative multimedia concert, Tafelmusik's House of Dreams takes the audience on a journey through five homes in five European cities where, in the 17th and 18th centuries, exquisite works by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and Marais were performed in intimate settings against a backdrop of private collections of paintings by Vermeer, Canaletto, and Watteau. With narration, projected images of the paintings and homes, and music dynamically performed from memory, House of Dreams recreates the concert experience at the intersection of Baroque music and art.

The Teens 'N' Theater (TNT) program has brought together fourteen actors from Omaha area high schools to bring playwright Michael Harrelson's interactive comedy, Real Movie Stars, to life at The Rose Theater.

Today's announcement by Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell of the Shaw Festival's 2013 season introduces new and provocative conversations for its 52nd season. In a playbill rich with culture clashes, magical transformations and dazzling ideas, The Shaw continues its theatrical exploration of the mystery and beauty of contemporary life.

The Teens 'N' Theater (TNT) program has brought together fourteen actors from Omaha area high schools to bring playwright Michael Harrelson's interactive comedy, Real Movie Stars, to life at The Rose Theater.

Three days of Shaw Festival summer openings start tonight at the Court House Theatre with Bernard Shaw's comedy The Millionairess.

Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell officially announced the playbill for the Shaw Festival's 51st season today.

Welcome to the Shaw Festival's 50th season - one which celebrates the past, while looking enthusiastically forward. As explained by Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell, "This milestone season gives us an opportunity to honour the extraordinary achievements of our past, while creating vivid new signposts for our future, showing how the Shaw Festival will play a leading role in the theatrical conversation of the next 50 years and more."

Albert Schultz, Founding Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company, today announced that the company's production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw will run August 19 - September 18, 2010, at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

Albert Schultz, Founding Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company, today announced that the company's production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw will run August 19 - September 18, 2010, at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

Albert Schultz, Founding Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company, today announced that the company's production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw will run August 19 - September 18, 2010, at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

CLOUD 9 is an award-winning, gender-bending play by Caryl Churchill, currently delighting audiences at The Panasonic Theatre in Toronto. With a star-studded cast that play different roles in each act (sometimes alternating between men and women, or adults and children) BWW thought it would be fun to sit down with some of the cast members and get their take on this unique piece of theatre. Following our interview with Blair Williams, we get to talk with Ann-Marie MacDonald about imperialism, religion and how the edgy-ness of CLOUD 9 still resonates more than 30 years after the play premiered.

CLOUD 9 is an award-winning, gender-bending play by Caryl Churchill, currently delighting audiences at The Panasonic Theatre in Toronto. With a star-studded cast that play different roles in each act (sometimes alternating between men and women, or adults and children) BWW thought it would be fun to sit down with some of the cast members and get their take on this unique piece of theatre. Over the next few days we present you with conversations from some of the men and women of CLOUD 9.

CLOUD 9 by Caryl Churchill (Top Girls) is an audacious, award-winning play that wraps gender-bending characters and outrageous portrayals of sexuality in thought-provoking satire. Political and sexual oppression are explored in a time-twisted structure: 100 years pass between acts set in British colonial Africa and modern London, with recurring characters aging a mere 25 years. The exhilarating world of CLOUD 9, where age, gender, race and sexuality are defined and re-defined features Ann-Marie MacDonald, Ben Carlson, Megan Follows, Yanna MacIntosh, Evan Buliung, David Jansen and Blair Williams and is directed by Alisa Palmer (Dora Mavor Moore Award for Top Girls).

Ways of the Heart, the final trio in the Shaw Festival's historic presentation of Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 collection, opened at the Court House Theatre on Saturday, August 1, 2009.

The Shaw Festival announced their line-up for 2008. It will include the musicals WONDERFUL TOWN (in the Festival Theatre) and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (in the Court House Theatre.) They will also do 4 special concrt performances of the Sondheim/Goldman FOLLIES. The Shaw plays will be GETTING MARRIED and MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION. The season will also include THE LITTLE FOXES, AN INSPECTOR CALLS, THE PRESIDENT, THE STEPMOTHER, AFTER THE DANCE, and a revival of their 2005 production of BELLE MORAL.