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Theatre Projects season will kick off with Chekhov
Winnipeg Free Press: republished from May 14th, 2011 print edition A NEW adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters will have its première at Theatre Projects Manitoba this fall, 110 years after the original play opened in Moscow. Winnipeg playwright Bruce McManus has updated the tragicomedy to the late 1950s and set it at the air [...]
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Upstaging the competition for two decades
by Kenton Smith, Uptown A new MTS Winnipeg on Demand doc looks at the dynamic 20-year history of Theatre Projects Manitoba. A good way to plug the undervalued dynamo of Winnipeg theatre was to bring its story directly into peoples’ homes. “There’s still too many people who don’t know the organization exists,” says local actor [...]
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The Challenge is on!
What CAN we do in 90 Hours? It’s time to find out! The Winnipeg Foundation’s 90-Hour Giving Challenge began Monday at 6:00am and runs until midnight Thursday, April 21st. Make an online gift during that time to Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Agency Fund and the Foundation will provide additional support. To check out the nearly 130 [...]
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Held over – Beethoven Blatz is a hit!
Wowza – the response from audiences has been overwhelming! So…we’ve added one more performance to our run of The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz. The Holdover performance is: 7:30 PM, Sunday April 17th Tickets are available online, in person at McNally Robinson or by calling the office: 204-989-2400
A play they’ll enjoy, Manitobans will
By Kevin Prokosh, Winnipeg Free Press What wants a man with a broken piano in an isolated woodbox of a home on the windswept Manitoba prairie in the 1930s? The answer is at the clappering heart of Armin Wiebe’s lusty romantic folk tale The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, which had its premiere staged before [...]
Theatre review: “Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz” brings Mennonites gone wild(ish) to the stage
by Joff Schmidt, CBC Theatre Reviewer Mennonites in lust! But not talking about it. That’s the Coles notes take on Armin Wiebe’s first full-length play, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, which sees a solid world premiere this week from Theatre Projects Manitoba. It’s the 1930s, and Obrum Kehler (Tom Keenan) and his wife, Susch [...]
Made in Manitoba
Uptown Magazine: Novelist Armin Wiebe makes his playwriting debut with The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, a folk play with a distinctly Prairie bent Daria Puttaert and Tom Keenan in The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz. Photo: Dylan Hewlett From the page to the stage, Theatre Projects Manitoba presents The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, [...]
Moonlight Sonata playwright delves into the art of the edit
Armin Wiebe is an award-winning author. But even more exciting, he is a first time playwright. Tonight is the opening night of Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz. Armin kept a journal of the journey of getting his first play to the stage. And he graciously shares some entries with you on CBC’s Manitoba Scene!
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