by Cindy Leszczynski | Feb 1, 2012 | Arts/Op-Eds
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, in the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s wonderful production, blends heart-felt, passionate performances with wit and demanding, challenging ideas. At the centre of Shaw’s play is the conflict of a mother and daughter, each...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Feb 1, 2012 | Local
(January 31, 2012) Israel Ludwig, President of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, is pleased to announce that the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg’s Planning Committee unanimously approved a motion to accept Chabad-Lubavitch’s Jewish Learning Institute (JLI)...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Feb 1, 2012 | Local
President Shimon Peres today (Monday), 30.1.12, at his Jerusalem Residence, met with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird and Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty http://www.fin.gc.ca/n12/12-010-eng.asp . At the start of the meeting, the President said that,...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Feb 1, 2012 | Local
Doreen Brownstone and Ross McMillan know how to make a staged play-reading a fully embodied, engaging work of theatre. In this debut of Winnipeg writer Daniel Thau-Eleff’s new play, they created fascinating portraits of Florence Farr and George Bernard Shaw...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Feb 1, 2012 | Arts/Op-Eds
Toronto improv group The National Theatre of the World was here in Winnipeg to instantly create works in homage to great Jewish playwrights. I was lucky to attend when they presented the first and only performance of a play “not written by Harold Pinter.”...
