Art Place is a 3-year community outreach program of the AOE Arts Council. For the past few months, each artist or art group has been paired up with a local non-profit organization to engage with its community and to create collaborative artworks in a variety of forms: from dance and theatre to music and the […]
One of the stated goals of Fresh Meat 4 is to attract non-theatre audiences, partially on the basis that twenty minute bites are easier to swallow than the prospect of a two hour play. For those adept at this new-fangled “binge watching” Fresh Meat will be a breeze and feel like a breath of fresh […]
In 2005-06, during the worst hurricane season in recorded history, Julie Angus became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean (yes, row) from mainland to mainland. She was accompanied by her fiancé (now her husband), Colin Angus. It took them 145 days. Julie wrote a best-selling book about their experience, Rowboat in a […]
It is rather rare, I am glad to say, that I have nothing good to say about a play. Sometimes, however, it happens. SNAPSHOT, written by Karen Balcome and directed by Patrick Gauthier, unfolds roughly as follows: After the death of his wife Leona, Dalton (Peter Froelich) has an unexpected visitor: his teenage granddaughter Charlie […]
