Trevor White is starring as the grown-up Harry Potter, Trish Lindstrom plays Ginny Potter and Luke Kimball will be their son, Albus Potter. Pretty much all the actors announced for Potter back in March of 2020 – at which point the show was scheduled to open in a two-part version in October of that year – are still in the cast, even though it will now be opening as a single-part show on May 31, 2022. On Tuesday morning, Mirvish Productions announced the cast for its upcoming Canadian premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the hit stage-only sequel to J.K. 21 to 31.Įlsewhere in Alberta, Theatre Calgary is reopening its doors tonight with the world premiere of Boom YZ by Rick Miller, who has been creating generationally themed solo shows for a number of years now ( Boom and Boom X ). I was a fan of this environmentally themed, inventively staged show when I caught it at the Factory Theatre in 2018 it’s now in the Maclab Theatre at the Citadel from Oct. It’s opening the fourth in-person show of its 2021-2022 season this week: Bears, Matthew MacKenzie’s production of his award-winning play co-created with choreographer Monica Dottor. The Citadel Theatre has been perhaps the most active regional theatre in Canada this fall. Just because Cloran’s been hustling south of the border doesn’t mean he’s neglecting things back in Edmonton. commercial producers, but it is still early days.” “It’s certainly the first time in my career I’ve directed a couple in the same role,” says Cloran by e-mail.Ĭloran’s As You Like It has another production lined up at Milwaukee Rep opening in February of 2022 – and suggestions that it might have a commercial life in New York later on aren’t far-fetched given that its director has been building bridges to the Great White Way in recent years, presenting pre-Broadway runs of musicals like Six and Hadestown at the Citadel.Īgain by e-mail, Cloran says: “We are in discussions with some U.S. Kayvon Khoshkam and Austin Eckert, who were both in the original Vancouver production, are likewise in the cast as Touchstone and Charles the Wrestler/Amiens, respectively, while Stratford and Shaw Festival favourite Deborah Hay is playing Jaques, who delivers the Seven Ages of Man speech that, in this show, segues into The Fool on the Hill.įun fact: Ben Carlson, Hay’s husband, played Jaques in the original Bard on the Beach production. 21.Ĭloran isn’t the only Canadian involved in this Chicago iteration: The music supervisor, the fight/dance choreographer and five designers have all crossed the border with the show.Ĭloran’s production of As You Like It mashes together the words of the Bard with songs by the Beatles. Now, a little later than originally planned, it is helping bring back live, in-person performances at CST, running to Nov. That initial West Coast success spawned runs at the Citadel and the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg in 2020 right before the pandemic. Jones went on to suggest that Cloran’s As You Like It would be a “fine candidate” for a berth on Broadway – where it would be guaranteed at least one good review, as the influential Jones also reviews for the New York Daily News.Ĭloran, who is artistic director at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, first conceived this take on As You Like It with Bard on the Beach in Vancouver in 2018 – where The Globe and Mail’s Marsha Lederman was likewise smitten. “Only the Beatles were better lyricists than ABBA.” “It’s like a Shakespearean version of Mamma Mia!” Chicago Tribune theatre critic Chris Jones wrote in a rave this weekend.
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Log In Create Free AccountĬanadian director Daryl Cloran’s production of As You Like It – which mashes together the words of the Bard with songs by the Beatles – is getting the kind of critical love you need for Broadway transfers in its American debut at Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST).
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