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		<title>The Globe and Mail - Theatre</title>
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		<description>This is where critic J. Kelly Nestruck posts his review after-thoughts and keeps an eye on what's going on theatre across Canada and around the world. Feel free to send him an email at knestruck@globeandmail.com. <BR><BR>  <a href="http://twitter.com/nestruck" id="twitter-link" style="display:block;text-align:right;">Follow me on <IMG style="FLOAT: right; " height=31 src="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/v5/content/photos/twitter100x31.jpg" width=100></a> <BR><BR></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Middle East drama: Michael Healey sides with David Hare over Caryl Churchill]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[As the Seven Jewish Children controversy continues its global expansion - the latest chapter, in Australia, involves Harry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes - we should perhaps make note of some other new plays out there about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ones that aren't attracting protests. (By - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 18:51 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[B'nai Brith asks Toronto mayor to shut down Seven Jewish Children]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[Oh, oh - here we go. Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children, a play some critics allege is antisemitic, is finally igniting a proper furor in Canada.At first it seemed as if the acclaimed British playwright's 10-minute "Play for Gaza" was going to pass through our country with little of the intense - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 7 May 2009 18:25 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Celebrating Canada's 0.3333 Tony nominations]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[The Tony nominations came out yesterday and Montrealer David Alvarez is up for a third of an award.How's that? Well, 14-year-old Alvarez alternates in the title role of Billy Elliot: The Musical with two other boys, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish.The trio are competing as one for leading actor in a musical - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 6 May 2009 10:31 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Three short things about Daniel MacIvor]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[1. The Da Da Kamera production of Daniel MacIvor's lovely play A Beautiful View is being remounted right now at Tarragon Theatre right in Toronto. I saw it at Buddies three years ago and later ranked it as one of my top 20 "artastic" people/places/things of 2006. (Ah, back then on my lazy personal blog - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 5 May 2009 16:32 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Flop flips: The Story of My Life up for four Drama Desk awards]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[The big news about the Drama Desk nominations announced yesterday was that 9 to 5, Dolly Parton's new musical based on the popular 1980 movie, is up for 15 awards. That's a new record in nods for these New York theatre awards, which are less important than the Tonys but still quite prestigious.The previous - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:50 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Volcano eruption: Ross Manson responds to Appetite's one-star review]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[Another post from the mailbag. On Monday, my fellow critic Paula Citron gave a rare one-star review to Volcano's new dance-theatre show, Appetite. In it, Citron decried "the lack of cleverness on the part of the creators who have substituted the vulgar, the tasteless and the shallow for anything of substance - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:22 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Alisa Palmer: Taking the Canadian curse off Caryl Churchill in the Obama era]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[Recently, I blogged about British playwright Caryl Churchill's controversial play Seven Jewish Children coming to Montreal (and
Toronto) and mentioned "the current resurgence of Canadian interest in Churchill". This prompted an email from director (and past NoT blog guest star) Alisa Palmer who recently - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:23 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Susan Boyle sensation sends sales for Vancouver production of Les Miserables through the roof]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[By now, you've no doubt heard about or just plain heard Susan Boyle, the older-than-40-year-old virgin whose astounding and inspiring rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables on Britain's Got Talent has turned into one of the hottest viral videos of all time. I mentioned Boyle here on Wednesday - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:38 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The realest face of William Shakespeare? The Playoff Bard]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[Forget the Cobbe, the Chandos and the Janssen portraits. A secret source has passed along this photo of Shakespeare, which he swears shows the true mug of Willy.I know, I was skeptical too. So I had some carbon dating done and guess what? The tests prove that this picture was snapped by Christopher Marlowe - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:14 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Susan Boyle and The Sound of Music make me happy]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[While I try to figure out the new blogging software, please amuse yourself with a couple of heartwarming viral videos that illustrate the transporting joy of musical theatre: a) Susan Boyle sings I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserable on Britain's Got Talent, and b) Do, Re, Mi performed by a flash mob - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:04 EDT</pubDate>
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