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Byline: RAY CONLOGUE Charlottetown PE -- BY RAY CONLOGUE The Globe and Mail Charlottetown 'YOU see how we're being suffocated by mega-musicals in Toronto,' says Jacques Lemay. 'There has to [...]

Byline: RAY CONLOGUE Charlottetown PE -- BY JIM BETTS AND JOHN BERTRAM Inspired by Robert Service's poem Directed by Jacques Lemay Starring Mary McCandless, Suzanne Bennett, Hank Stinson At Confederation [...]

Less than a year after signing a one-year contract to be the Charlottetown Festival's artistic director, Jacques Lemay has been given a three-year extension. Wayne Carew, executive director of the [...]

Byline: RAY CONLOGUE Charlottetown PE -- BOOK AND LYRICS BY RICHARD OUZOUNIAN Composed by Marek Norman Directed and choreographed by Jacques Lemay Starring Bill Hosie and Craig Fair At the [...]

The Globe and Mail The Charlottetown Festival has named Jacques Lemay as its new artistic director, replacing Walter Learning, who is leaving the festival in February at the end of [...]

Byline: DEIRDRE KELLY BY DEIRDRE KELLY THERE'S A SAYING in the dance world that dancers are a lot like circus gypsies: transient, exotic, entertaining. Jacques Lemay, Royal Winnipeg Ballet choreographer, [...]

Byline: DEIRDRE KELLY BY DEIRDRE KELLY The Globe and Mail JACQUES LEMAY jazz director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, has replaced David Allan former second soloist with the National Ballet [...]

Byline: GLOBE STAFF, Staff Lead The names include authors, musicians and judges, scientists who have worked for decades to innovate and invent, and community advocates who toiled at the grassroots [...]

Byline: Barbara MacAndrew CHARLOTTETOWN -- Barlow announced a varied program of theatre, music and art for the festival's 1997 season on Thursday. Criticized for its unimaginative programming, weak Canadian content [...]

Byline: Barbara MacAndrew Special to The Globe and Mail Charlottetown -- ANNE of Green Gables is an orphan once again. For the first time in her 32 years at the [...]

Byline: Derrick Toth Canadian Press THINKING of summer holidays in Atlantic Canada? Think of the awesome beauty of Gros Morne National Park, the whales at play in the Bay of [...]

Byline: Donald Deacon Charlottetown PE -- I was sorry to read the headline Has Charlottetown Sold Out? in the July 19 Arts article by Barbara MacAndrew. The Confederation Centre has [...]

Byline: BARBARA MacANDREW Charlottetown PE -- BY BARBARA MacANDREW Special to the Globe and Mail Charlottetown TWENTY-FIVE years ago, few arts events were more Canadian in content than the Charlottetown [...]

Byline: MICHAEL VALPY BY MICHAEL VALPY THE contract with Disney is only part of it. We should get more fully acquainted with Mounties 'R' Us, the marketing arm of the [...]

Byline: HARVEY ENCHIN BY HARVEY ENCHIN Entertainment Industries Reporter The sale of RCMP merchandise under a new licencing agreement with Walt Disney Co. (Canada) Ltd. will help finance community police [...]

Byline: RON SUDLOW Victoria BC -- BY RON SUDLOW Canadian Press Victoria OPENING ceremonies steeped in native culture started the transformation from pageantry to athletic competition yesterday as this quaint [...]

Byline: JAMES CHRISTIE and MIRO CERNETIG Victoria BC -- BY JAMES CHRISTIE and MIRO CERNETIG The Globe and Mail Victoria UNDER a blazing afternoon sun and before an adoring throng [...]

Victoria BC -- Canadian Press VICTORIA The CBC has arrived. Its mission: to bring the Commonwealth Games into your living room. In one of the largest broadcasting undertakings ever in [...]

Byline: ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN Toronto ONT -- BY ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN Music and Dance Critic Toronto WHICH side are you on? TV and print ads push that question at us daily, as [...]

Police in India have been unable to find a link between an alleged terrorist arrested this month and the 1985 Air-India crash, Canada's acting high commissioner to India said yesterday. [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER HARRIS BY CHRISTOPHER HARRIS Arts Reporter Canadian show business has lost one of its most influential choreographers and stage directors. Alan Lund died on Canada Day, at 67, [...]

Byline: DERRICK TOTH BY DERRICK TOTH Canadian Press THE folks at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, home of the Charlottetown Festival, have two good reasons to kick up their [...]

Canada's first native ballet will tour the country as part of the 125th anniversary celebrations, the Canadian Native Arts Foundation announced yesterday. In the Land of Spirits, a ballet based [...]

Charlottetown PE -- Canadian Press CHARLOTTETOWN After a fat-cutting season, the Charlottetown Festival is hoping to restore some lost lustre - and maybe help save the country. The festival announced [...]

STARMAN A definite 'worth watching.' The legendary Quebec rock opera by Luc Plamondon and Michel Berger was performed seemingly forever in Montreal. Here is the Paris version, starring Martine St. [...]

Byline: DEIRDRE KELLY BY DEIRDRE KELLY The Globe and Mail WHEN prima ballerina Veronica Tennant announced she was retiring at the end of the season, the entire country seemed to [...]

Byline: ROSEMARY SEXTON ROSEMARY SEXTON IT WAS -30, but that did not deter about 350 people who paid $100 each last Friday to attend the Winnipeg Art Gallery's annual fundraising [...]

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet's 1985-86 home season will include four world premieres, the company announced yesterday. They are Nuages, a pas de deux by Dutch choreographer Jiri Kylian, The War [...]

Byline: DEIRDRE KELLY Winnipeg MB -- BY DEIRDRE KELLY The Globe and Mail WINNIPEG IT IS SAID that bad luck comes in threes and no one knows this better than [...]

Byline: DEIRDRE KELLY Winnipeg MB -- BY DEIRDRE KELLY The Globe and Mail WINNIPEG CANADA'S oldest classical troupe opened its 50th anniversary season with a repackaged Canadian classic that says [...]

Byline: STEPHEN GODFREY Vancouver BC -- BY STEPHEN GODFREY The Globe and Mail VANCOUVER Like most ballet companies, the Royal Winnipeg has been looking for something family-oriented as an alternative [...]

Byline: DEIRDRE KELLY BY DEIRDRE KELLY The Globe and Mail MARY JAGO , former principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, has been appointed artistic adviser to Toronto's George [...]

A five-member team headed by Edmonton musician Tommy Banks has been appointed to create the opening and closing ceremonies for the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, the Games organizing [...]