Articles tagged with: arts
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Freelance writer and blogger Michael Kwan returns to discuss the Super Bowl episode of The Office, smartphones, and the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, with Joseph Planta.
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The stage, film and television veteran Gabrielle Rose talks to Joseph Planta about her new role in the Arts Club Theatre Company’s Canadian premiere of Doubt, a play by John Patrick Shanley, playing at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage until 12th October 2008.
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Bestselling author, academic, and prominent public intellectual Richard Florida talks to Joseph Planta about his latest book, Who’s Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life (Random House, 2008).
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Writer and journalist Stephen Hunt writes about being white in a thoughtful and humorous book, The White Guy: A Field Guide (Douglas & McIntyre, 2008), and discusses the book, race, and the arts with Joseph Planta.
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Playwright Michele Riml talks to Joseph Planta about her new play Poster Boys, currently playing at the Arts Club on Granville Island until 26 April 2008, as well as her career as a writer.
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Canadian international music star Sophie Milman talks to Joseph Planta about her newest album, Make Someone Happy (Linus, 2007), and her current Canadian tour. She plays Vancouver’s Centre for the Performing Arts, the 13th of December.
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The indomitable Christopher Gaze talks with Joseph Planta about the 17th season of Bard on the Beach, the plays they’re putting on (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, and Troilus and Cressida), and other things Shakespeare.
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Spirit of the West’s John Mann, opening tonight as the Emcee in Cabaret, talked with Joseph Planta about his starring role in the Arts Club Theatre Company’s latest. Mann discussed the Kander and Ebb musical, performing on the stage, his tour-de-force performance in last year’s Miss Saigon, and the legendary role that won Joel Grey a Tony and an Oscar.
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Satirist and bestselling author Tony Hendra talked with Joseph Planta about his new novel, The Messiah of Morris Avenue (Henry Holt, 2006), a funny and insightful novel about what would happen if Christ came back to walk amongst a nation where the religious right dominates every aspect of American life. Hendra also offers his thoughts about the current political climate in the United States, and his previous memoir, Father Joe, is also discussed.
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Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers is running at the Metro Theatre until 11 February 2006. Its director Alison Schamberger talked with Joseph Planta about the production.
