Category: Art Columns

My review of Globe Theatre’s production of Marion Bridge…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
January 22, 2010
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…has already shown up online, even though it won’t appear in print until tomorrow. This is the first time I’ve seen something I’ve written pop up that far ahead of the ink-on-paper version, though maybe I just haven’t noticed until now. The review begins: I confess that I went into the opening night performance of …

My preview of Globe Theatre’s upcoming production of Marion Bridge…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
January 14, 2010
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…is in today’s Regina Leader Post. It begins: The 18th-century French poet Jacques Delille famously noted that while we can choose our friends, “Fate chooses our relatives.” More than one family has fractured because siblings discover they have nothing in common with each other … which is exactly what has happened to the family in …

My preview of this weekend’s South Saskatchewan Youth Orchestra Christmas brunch…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
December 10, 2009
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…is in today’s Leader Post. It begins: What could be better than a wonderful Christmas brunch onstage at the Conexus Arts Centre? How about a wonderful Christmas brunch followed by a performance by the South Saskatchewan Youth Orchestra? That’s exactly the hard-to-imagine-a-better-than event scheduled for this Sunday. A silent auction and food kick off the …

My preview of the Regina Symphony Orchestra concert featuring pianist Hung-Kuan Chen…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
November 26, 2009
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…is online at the Regina Leader Post. It begins: Pianist Hung-Kuan Chen isn’t one to shy away from a challenge. Neither is Regina Symphony Orchestra maestro Victor Sawa.Which is why Saturday’s Mosaic Masterworks concert at the Conexus Arts Centre features Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2, which Sawa calls “arguably the toughest concerto ever written.” …

My preview of the Regina Little Theatre One-Act Plays Cabaret…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog, Columns
October 22, 2009
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…is in today’s LeaderPost. It begins: Before Angel Genereux became the producer of Regina Little Theatre’s programs of one-act plays in 2007, they were seen strictly as a venue for new talent on and backstage, and traditionally drew small audiences. Genereux thought they could draw new audience members, too. She boosted publicity. The result: last spring’s …

A preview of Flamenco Fire, the Regina Symphony Pops concert featuring guitarist Robert Michaels

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog, Columns
October 8, 2009
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My preview of this Saturday’s Flamenco Fire Regina Symphony Orchestra Shumiatcher Pops concert, featuring guitarist Robert Michaels, is in today’s Regina LeaderPost. It begins: For every form of music there are purists who say of certain practitioners, “That’s not really (whatever form of music they’re a purist in).” Guitarist Robert Michaels admits Flamenco purists might …

My preview of the Regina Fringe Festival…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
July 2, 2009
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…and in particular of Julia Mackey’s play Jake’s Gift, is in today’s LeaderPost. An excerpt: Mackey says one of the main reasons she created the show was to let veterans know that a lot of people really do appreciate the sacrifices they made. Another was to educate children, and Jake’s Gift, Mackey says, elicits the …

My preview of the ballet Don Quixote…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog, Columns
June 15, 2009
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…being presented this week by Class Act Performing Arts Studio and Do It With Class Young People’s Theatre (and in which, full disclosure, my daughter Alice is playing a chicken), is in today’s Regina LeaderPost. An excerpt: Eduardo Ventura, one of the ballet instructors at Class Act and Do It With Class, will dance Basilio. …

My preview of Regina Little Theatre’s Local Talent…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
June 4, 2009
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…was in today’s LeaderPost. It begins: Women today are expected to be beautiful and thin, wonderful mothers and wives, and dedicated to their careers — all at the same time. Those unrealistic expectations drive the plot of Local Talent, Regina Little Theatre’s final production of the season, June 10-13 at the Regina Performing Arts Centre. …

My preview of the Youth Ballet of Saskatchewan’s year-end performances…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
May 21, 2009
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…is in today’s Regina LeaderPost. An excerpt: More than 350 dance students from age three on up will take to the stage of the Conexus Arts Centre this weekend as the Youth Ballet Company of Saskatchewan, celebrating its 25th anniversary, presents two year-end performances. “There’s a little bit of duplication, but not very much,” says …

My review of Globe Theatre’s production of Doubt, A Parable

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
April 24, 2009
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This is the review I’ve sent to CBC’s Afternoon Edition and is more or less what I’ll be saying on the radio this afternoon (probably about 4:10 p.m., though I haven’t heard for certain). As they say, check against delivery! *** Globe Theatre is closing out its mainstage season right now with Doubt, A Parable, a …

Surprised by joy

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
March 20, 2008
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Over at my main website I’ve got quite a few arts columns archived from my brief stint as a columnist for inRegina.com. A lot of them were about long-passed events, but a few are more general, and every now and then I may pop one up here, like I did the column about art and …