http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/k_prokosh Most recent (7 days) columns en-gb Wed, 22 May 2013 08:59:47 CDT The financially strapped Manitoba Theatre for Young People has introduced a five-show 2013-14 playbill, half the size of recent seasons. It's a dramatic downsizing for the cash-poor organization but necessary, given it is almost $2 million in debt, says newly installed artistic producer Derek... Fri, 3 May 2013 12:44:49 CDT A chance meeting with the producer of the long-awaited revival of the Broadway musical Pippin led David Asper to become an investor in the $8-million production opening later this month. It was Asper's younger brother, Leonard, who bumped into producer Bruce Robert Harris (2012 Tony Award winner Wed, 3 Apr 2013 03:16:21 CDT Paula Potosky, who in the last few weeks has emerged as an actress to watch, will play the title role of Mary Poppins at Rainbow Stage this August. "I'm utterly thrilled," she said yesterday. "This is my first big lead. I feel that if there is any lead I can play this is it. It feels natural to Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:18:05 CST Only an adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's beloved American Civil epic tome Gone With the Wind could clock in at more than three hours and ultimately feel rushed. For her new stage adaptation that premiered at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Thursday, first-time Toronto playwright Niki Landau Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:24:10 CST Ray Hogg will be welcomed to Winnipeg this week as the new artistic director of Rainbow Stage by a theatre community unhappy with the company's hiring process. The 35-year-old Toronto resident, making his first trip here since the announcement last month, will unveil the organization's 2013 Wed, 2 Jan 2013 03:17:40 CST Ray Hogg will be welcomed to Winnipeg this week as the new artistic director of Rainbow Stage by a theatre community unhappy with the company's hiring process. The 35-year-old Toronto resident, making his first trip here since the announcement last month, will unveil the organization's 2013 Tue, 1 Jan 2013 03:16:20 CST Steven Page, formerly the lead singer of Barenaked Ladies, has agreed to play the male lead in the $10-million movie version of Strike! that could begin shooting as early as next year. The Toronto-based tenor is the first to sign on to appear in the long-simmering big-screen adaptation of the Sat, 15 Dec 2012 09:31:26 CST Harry Rintoul would be rolling over in his grave. The late founder of Theatre Projects Manitoba would be stunned to hear that for the first time in its 23-year history, the company is not presenting any homegrown work on its stage. Both of TPM's 2012-13 offerings are from Quebec: Carole Thu, 1 Nov 2012 03:16:53 CDT WJT had planned to kick off its 25th-anniversary season with the local debut of Perestroika, the award-winning conclusion to Tony Kushner's epic Angels in America. The company's impressive revival last March of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches -- considered one of the great plays of the Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:16:59 CDT It's 9 a.m. when Alexander McCall Smith cheerfully answers the telephone, content that he's already completed a full day's work that would be the envy of most writers of the world. "I was up at four o'clock this morning and I've written 2,500 words," says the Scottish author most widely known Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:58:59 CDT