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Plummer takes Prospero by storm

temCNS-STRATFORD-PChristopher Plummer as Prospero in Stratford's The Tempest, 2010. LUMMER.jpg

At 80, having recently been nominated for an Oscar, he's starring in Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, looking not a day over 69.

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Greg Kramer is helping to sort out the sorcery in The Tempest, while making sure no actor gets caught in a trap door.

All this has happened before, but this time is the best

Bringing the family to Stratford can be a prohibitively expensive affair. But this year, it's worth it. Every child deserves the opportunity to see the Peter Pan directed by Tim Carroll, a man who understands that it's not wise to muck about with well-beloved tales.

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Cirque Eloize launches the Montreal completement cirque festival on Thursday with the North American premiere of iD, which played in South Korea last year.

Circus theatre brings spectators into the show

When The Gazette contacted circus director Firenza Guidi in Wales last week, she had just arrived home from a gig in Italy and was finishing up a conversation with her technical director on Skype. He was in Montreal giving Guidi a virtual tour of the circus theatre Tohu. She was excited by the look of Tohu's control booth.

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Bill Rowat (right), Melanie Doerr and Paul Van Dyck in the play Mending Fences at the Hudson Village Theatre.

Norm Foster takes rural route to insightful comedy

Norm Foster has a neighbourly way of writing a play.

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Intense, emotional celebration

Take a bare stage, four performers, a small orchestra in the background and 26 glorious songs celebrating a late 20th-century rebirth of the troubadour tradition -and what do you get?

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Gallery: Carnivale Lune Bleue

The traditional carnival has come back to life in Bromont with the opening of Carnivale Lune Bleue on June 17, 2010. Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights throughout the summer, this event combines a vintage rides and games, circus, cabaret and side show. For directions, go to carnivalelunebleue.com.

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Miss Sugarpuss tops Fringe's Frankies

The 20th edition of the Montreal Fringe Festival ended with its annual Frankie Awards ceremony on Sunday night.

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Bigger than Jesus is off the Fringe

Rick Miller's Bigger Than Jesus is back in town, at Theatre de Quat'Sous.

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This Evita lacks charisma

We begin with flickering black and white images on a movie screen in Buenos Aires in 1952. The screen goes black. The cinema manager materializes with a sombre announcement -Eva Peron, the first lady of Argentina, is dead at 33.

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Circus school grads sweat spunk and courage

The world of contemporary circus is ever evolving. Proof is in the two National Circus School shows playing at Tohu until June 20.

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'Red,' 'Memphis' win big at Tony Awards

The winning color was Red and the place to be was Memphis during the 64th annual Tony Awards on Sunday.

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FTA: The Greatest Cities in the World

Fable by Vancouver troupe experiments with ethnicity

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FTA: Mexican company gives us a history lesson

And Phase 2 of Fringe begins Thursday

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Ciels, the foursth play in Wajdi Mouawad's Le sang des promesses cycle.

Review: Mouawad saves best for last

Done. I've seen all four plays of the Wajdi Mouawad Le sang des promesses cycle at the Festival TransAmeriques.

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Mouawad marathon merits applause

Violence plays out on dance stage

Two days of conflict and bloodshed in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, were the core inspirations for Poussieres de Sang, choreographed by Seydou Boro and Salia Sanou and performed as part of the ongoing contemporary dance and theatre event Festival Trans-Ameriques.

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