Tagged: andrewpenner

I realized the other day that while I've talked about the Sunparlour Players a lot, I've only written about a show of theirs once on this blog. Ricky reviewed their show at Pop Montreal a while back and I wrote about them as part of my Hillside Festival coverage, but that only had a couple of brief mentions. I've written reviews of a couple of plays lead singer/guitarist/banjoist Andrew Penner's been a part of, The Book of Judith and Reesor, I've mentioned them in podcasts, I've written comments about them on other posts...but no full-on show review. But [...]

• Sunparlour Players - Make A Sound

Sometimes I think maybe it would be fun to go to an evangelical church service. Not like Billy Graham evangelical or televangelism, more like the fictional evangelical stuff that you see sometimes, like in Blues Brothers where the late James Brown is the preacher, he's in a room full of people with a band and a choir on a beautiful summer's day, and everyone is so into the sermon they randomly jump out of their pews to shout, sing, and dance. The Book of Judith , a play currently being staged in a tent [...]

I hate to use the word unique. I had a writing teacher last year say to my class that unique is one of the most overused and incorrectly used words around, because it means something that's one of a kind in all the world. However, reading the press release for The Book of Judith, a new play running in Toronto from May 19 to 31, unique is really the only descriptor I can come up with. From the press release: "In 2005, playwright Michael Rubenfeld was asked to find a lover for a quadriplegic woman named Judith Snow. [...]

Erin Brandenburg in a Promo Picture for "Reesor" In my previous Next Stage theatre review , I made a couple of remarks at the opening about mid-Winter theatre festivals being efforts by large summer festival companies to "bridge the gap of their fundraising dry months." I meant it as a harmless lede to my review, but got taken to task for it a bit by the Fringe Festival in the comments section , and in hindsight it does seem kind of a shallow and poorly thought out thing for me to have written, so [...]

• Sunparlour Players - Bless This City