A review of Scarborough Players’ production of Nick Dear’s Frankenstein By Anna LeBourdais One of the great pleasures of community theatre is never quite knowing what awaits us when the
Who is the real monster? Scarborough Players brings Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the stage in Nick Dear’s adaptation—a story of creation, rejection, responsibility and the longing to belong. I’ll be
When I sat down recently with Michael Khashmanian, founder and artistic director of Beech Street Theatre Company, I expected to learn about the history of a theatre company that has
One of the great gifts of living in the Durham Region is that meaningful, challenging, and genuinely adventurous theatre is not something we have to travel downtown Toronto to find.
Featured image: Header image from the official Lynn Slotkin website. Those of us who love community theatre in the Durham Region are often, by nature, theatrelovers in the fullest sense.
Community theatre is one of those remarkable spaces where ordinary people do extraordinary things. It’s built on passion rather than paycheques, commitment rather than contracts, and a shared belief that storytelling — live, in person, and together — is something worth showing up for.
