Greg worked for the Federal government for many years. He was with DVA when the department moved its headquarters from Ottawa to Charlottetown. He retired from the Public Service over ten years ago.

Over the years Greg was a very active member
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Meet the Rag Tag Players from the Murphy’s Community Centre

In Her Own Write
by Ann Thurlow

Patrick MacDonald gives an order and his young troupers instantly obey. It’s rehearsal day for the Rag Tag Players, a group of apprentice actors from the after school program at the Murphy Community Centre. MacDonald has been leading this program for almost 20 years. He saw the need for—and the
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Spotlight Theatre company stages The Nutcracker at Harbourfront

Summerside Scene
by Peggy Miles

You’re familiar with the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” right? Even if you don’t know the song title, I can guarantee you’ve heard the Tchykovsky tune. YouTube it for a reminder…it’s one of those songs that instantly puts you in the holiday spirit and well, invokes visions of sugar
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The Attic, The Pearls & Three Fine Girls

Review by Sean McQuaid

Good or bad or somewhere in between, nobody pushes your buttons more effectively than a sibling—and in exploring the love-hate relationships of three grown sisters, The Attic, The Pearls & Three Fine Girls pushes more buttons than George Jetson.

A bitingly funny, sometimes dark, often silly and surprisingly touching
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Profile: Anne Putnam

by Jane Ledwell

It is twilight on the south shore when I pull up past the for sale sign at Anne Putnam’s house. The house is, indeed, for sale and only half full, leaving room for rehearsal spaces for The Attic, the Pearls, and Three Fine Girls, being created by a collective of five women. Anne is a stage manager of renown, and she is stage manager for The Attic, but, she
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One Great Thing
by Ann Thurlow

“It’s a grand old theatre” I hear someone in the audience say. We are at the King’s Playhouse in Georgetown. The remark makes me admire, again, how the place was rebuilt from the sad ashes, how a community came together because they believed that a theatre could be their salvation. In the lobby, they are selling 50-50 tickets or chances to win a chainsaw case
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Joseé Boudreau finds new favourites in Buddy Holly story

For Joseé Boudreau, the difference between this year’s Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story at The Charlottetown Festival and last year’s production is immense. What was her most dreaded scene last year has even become her favourite scene this year.

“Everyone is a year older. Everyone is bringing something new. It’s a growth in your personal
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Marlane O’Brien

in The Full Monty

Marlane O’Brien steals the show, many people have said. The focus may be on the guys in The Full Monty, but it’s the character of Jeanette, the gritty, chain smoking, tough love piano player, who is getting a lot of the laughs. While O’Brien pushes aside the praise, she readily admits she loves the role.

“She’s quite a gift of a character. When you’re
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Marcia Kash first saw the musical Anne of Green Gables when she was a girl living in London, England, with her parents. The production starred Barbara Hamilton. “I still have the program, she says.” Today Marcia is the latest director of The Charlottetown Festival production of Anne, now in its 47th year.

The Festival has been promoting this latest production as being “re-visioned,” and
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Proof
ACT production

Review by Sean McQuaid

Watching ACT mount Proof at the Guild, your antediluvian observer recalled an early 1990s Barbie doll controversy. The talking doll in question spouted various prerecorded phrases, notably lamenting the difficulty of math class.

“Amen sister,” says the math-phobic theatre critic. But as an unimpressed 1990s public protested, Barbie’s math anxiety
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Tess Benger is Anne Shirley and Justin Stadnyk is Gilbert Blythe

The Charlottetown Festival has announced the cast for the lead roles in Canada’s longest running musical, Anne of Green Gables–The Musical™.

“It is an exciting and somewhat daunting prospect to approach this Canadian jewel and bring a fresh face to it,” says Marcia Kash, the production’s new director. “I am looking forward
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Creators of Come All Ye have long distance relationship

From the far corners of Canada, the creators of The Charlottetown Festival’s new production Come-All-Ye are pulling together the show that will cover the Island from tip to tip.

Wade Lynch, director and co-creator, musical director and performer John Connolly, and host Patrick Ledwell, have been coast to coast this spring for their “day
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