Archive

• October 2012
  • Tue., 23 – Playwright tackles iconic source material for "Gone With the Wind"
     
  • Mon., 22 – "Good People Bad Things" provokes big questions
     
  • Fri., 19 – RMTC's "A Few Good Men" is damn good theatre
     
  • Thu., 18 – Twyla Tharp's "The Princess & The Goblin" brings romance back to the stage
     
  • Fri., 12 – Winnipeg playwright lights up Toronto stage with a dark musical
     
  • Fri., 12 – PTE's "The Brink" shoots for the moon and hits - sometimes
     
  • Fri., 12 – MTYP's "Where the Wild Things Are" not too wild, but fun
     
  • Thu., 11 – The Brink opens Prairie Theatre Exchange's 40th anniversary season
     
  • Wed., 3 – Twyla Tharp raises the bar at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
     
  • Tue., 2 – Designing Gone With the Wind for the Winnipeg stage
     
• September 2012
  • Thu., 27 – Nuit Blanche tips for the Winnipeg Art Gallery and beyond
     
  • Mon., 17 – Culture Days will make you fall in love with the arts in Manitoba
     
  • Fri., 14 – Theatre preview: September slump? Not this year...
     
  • Tue., 4 – Winnipeg's ManyFest lights up Broadway Avenue
     
  • Sat., 1 – Acrobatic troupe takes over Assiniboine Park
     
• August 2012
  • Fri., 31 – Asham Stomperfest: Top five ways to kick up your heels
     
  • Thu., 30 – Trinbago celebrates 50th anniversary of independence with a street party
     
  • Tue., 28 – Theatre Projects brings vision of Quebec to Manitoba
     
  • Mon., 27 – Winnipeg's Barge Festival honours Selkirk Settlers anniversary
     
  • Fri., 24 – Winnipeg's first Manitoba Filipino Street Festival fires up Garden City
     
  • Fri., 24 – Winnipeg's Carnaval on Bannatyne heats up the east side of the Exchange
     
  • Wed., 22 – Winnipeg Street Festival animates the downtown
     
  • Tue., 21 – Winnipeg's FemFest celebrates 10 years of women playwrights
     
  • Fri., 17 – Canada's best break dancing crews will battle this weekend at Graffiti Gallery
     
  • Tue., 7 – The West End Cultural Centre welcomes the devil tonight
     
  • Sat., 4 – Folklorama: a feast of global culture on the streets of Winnipeg
     
  • Thu., 2 – "Alternative Folk Festival" marks 40 years at Gimli's Icelandic Festival
     
• July 2012
  • Mon., 30 – Winnipeg Fringe Festival sees record numbers, survives storm
     
  • Thu., 26 – FRINGE: The CBC Review Crew's favourite shows of Fringe '12
     
  • Thu., 26 – Winnipeg Trolley Company transports you with Sam's Spiel
     
  • Wed., 25 – FRINGE: "Best of Fest" list announced
     
  • Tue., 24 – Winnipeg Fringe's "In Adagio" pits opera against Portuguese fado
     
  • Sun., 22 – One star Fringe: Celebrating the stinkers
     
  • Fri., 20 – FRINGE: Rintoul family connection leads to an unusual collaboration
     
  • Thu., 19 – FRINGE: Award winning playwright Vern Thiessen returns with something old... and something new
     
  • Wed., 18 – FRINGE: Meet the CBC review crew
     
  • Mon., 16 – Winnipeg Fringe Festival: ten shows to watch for
     
  • Fri., 13 – Ryan McMahon's Powwow Shades Of Grey twitter novel is taking off
     
  • Thu., 12 – Order of Manitoba honours three cultural leaders
     
  • Thu., 12 – Aboriginal Arts Program at Manitoba Theatre for Young People threatened
     
  • Wed., 11 – Winnipeg Fringe Festival hits 25 years with biggest lineup ever
     
  • Tue., 10 – "Sam's Spiel" new take on Winnipeg General Strike
     
  • Mon., 9 – Bookmarked: Winnipeg Fringe Festival's Rob Ring recommends "The Craftsman"
     
  • Fri., 6 – Winnipeg comics raise funds for Mike MacDonald in "Just for Mike"
     
• June 2012
  • Fri., 29 – Three Manitobans get Canada's highest honour
     
  • Thu., 28 – Arts groups survive The Winnipeg Jets...for now
     
  • Tue., 26 – Top 20 Dorothys for CBC TV's Over the Rainbow includes one Winnipegger
     
  • Tue., 19 – Winnipeg's Rainbow Stage: No foot-tapping at "Footloose"
     
  • Fri., 15 – Winnipeg artists recognized at Mayor's Luncheon for the Arts
     
  • Mon., 11 – Remembering Rachel Browne, founder of Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers
     
  • Fri., 8 – Winnipeg's Q Ballet unveils three new choreographic works
     
  • Thu., 7 – Winnipeg's Kidsfest serves up funny waiters, trapeze artists & dinosaurs
     
  • Tue., 5 – Aspiring Dorothys audition for CBC's "Over the Rainbow" in Winnipeg
     
  • Mon., 4 – Manitoba Theatre for Young People faces financial crisis
     
  • Sat., 2 – Gay Pride - It's not just for Gays anymore!
     
  • Fri., 1 – Shakespeare in the Ruins comes home with a fast and fun take on Henry V
     
• May 2012
  • Thu., 31 – "Romeo and Juliet" Aboriginal style at Manitoba Theatre for Young People
     
  • Thu., 31 – Winnipeg's Columpa Bobb on building bridges through the arts
     
  • Mon., 28 – Winnipeg playwright Debbie Patterson brings Sargent & Victor to life
     
  • Fri., 25 – Crystal Kolt: Flin Flon's artistic force
     
  • Wed., 23 – Aboriginal Day Live announces 2012 lineup featuring Kashtin
     
  • Fri., 18 – Winnipeg theatre couple raises funds for Performing Arts Lodge
     
  • Wed., 16 – WATCH: Royal Winnipeg Ballet's young dancers strut their stuff
     
  • Wed., 16 – WATCH: Sagkeeng's Finest captures first place on Canada's Got Talent
     
  • Fri., 11 – REVIEW: My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding
     
  • Wed., 9 – Winnipeg Kidsfest line-up has something for everyone
     
  • Wed., 9 – Review: Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers triumph with salute to Elizabeth Smart
     
  • Wed., 9 – Leonard Cohen's music comes to life at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
     
  • Sat., 5 – Tara Players actress excited about taking theatre piece to Ireland
     
  • Thu., 3 – Winnipeg's Carol Shields Festival promises "dangerous" theatre
     
  • Wed., 2 – Sagkeeng's Finest take their jigging to finals of Canada's Got Talent
     
• April 2012
  • Mon., 30 – Theatre Review: "Eden" takes on big questions of truth and justice
     
  • Fri., 27 – WATCH: "Eden" theatre production offers new twist on creation story
     
  • Thu., 26 – REVIEW: Talented young performers make MTYP's "Buru" work
     
  • Thu., 26 – Shakespeare In The Ruins returns home
     
  • Thu., 26 – MTYP's new season offers dinosaurs, hockey, and some Potter kid named Harry...
     
  • Wed., 25 – MTYP connects with indigenous youth from Australia
     
  • Fri., 20 – REVIEW: MTC delivers extraordinarily powerful musical with "Next to Normal"
     
  • Thu., 19 – Behind the Scenes of "Blind Date" with sound improviser Sean Bowie
     
  • Thu., 19 – Federal Government offers financial boost to Winnipeg arts organizations
     
  • Thu., 19 – WATCH: Winnipeg choreographer Jolene Bailie flies with "Inspiro"
     
  • Wed., 18 – Rock musical "Next to Normal" tackles serious issue of mental illness
     
  • Fri., 13 – WATCH: MTYP's "Star Keeper" captures the imagination of youngsters
     
  • Tue., 10 – WATCH: Royal Winnipeg Ballet unveils 2012-13 season
     
  • Fri., 6 – Review: Manitoba Theatre Centre's "Blind Date" frothy, fun and crowd-pleasing
     
  • Thu., 5 – Watch: "Blind Date" offers one-of-a kind thrill for audience
     
  • Mon., 2 – Five Reasons I like doing stand-up at Winnipeg Comedy Festival
     
  • Mon., 2 – WATCH: Winnipeg's Kidsfest turns 30 and asks parents for money
     
• March 2012
  • Fri., 30 – Review: Theatre Projects' "Dionysus In Stony Mountain" a thoughtful meditation on justice
     
  • Thu., 29 – What the budget means for Manitoba arts and culture
     
  • Thu., 29 – WATCH: "Circus and Magic" offers youth at risk a chance to succeed
     
  • Thu., 29 – WATCH: "Till it Hurts" fitfully funny farce at Prairie Theatre Exchange
     
  • Tue., 27 – WATCH: "Dionysus in Stony Mountain" sheds light on both sides of prison bars
     
  • Sun., 25 – Riding "The Number 14" at Manitoba Theatre for Young People
     
  • Sat., 24 – Plenty of activities to keep the family smiling during spring break
     
  • Thu., 22 – Winnipeg Jewish Theatre's "Angels In America" will make you see the light
     
  • Mon., 19 – Bookmarked: Actress Sharon Bajer recommends Carson McCullers
     
  • Sun., 18 – Young actor is in awe of fellow performers in "August: Osage County"
     
  • Fri., 16 – MTC's "God of Carnage" doesn't quite kill it
     
  • Thu., 15 – Prairie Theatre Exchange offers two world premieres in 2012-2013 season
     
  • Wed., 14 – "God of Carnage" exposes nasty side of human nature
     
  • Mon., 12 – Prepare to be inspired by bridge building movers and shakers at inaugural SCENE & HEARD event
     
  • Mon., 12 – MTC's production of "God of Carnage" to proceed despite co-producer closing its doors
     
  • Fri., 9 – Big names dominate Manitoba Theatre Centre's 2012-2013 season
     
  • Fri., 9 – Review: MTC's "August: Osage County" delivers on epic family dysfunction
     
  • Thu., 8 – WATCH: Winnipeg women are front and centre in Cabaret of Monologues
     
  • Wed., 7 – WATCH: Royal Winnipeg Ballet's production of "Giselle" is sure to give you the Wilis
     
  • Fri., 2 – Winnipeg's Nafro Dance celebrates 10 years with "Mapiko"
     
• February 2012
  • Wed., 29 – David Steinberg added to the Winnipeg Comedy Festival lineup
     
  • Fri., 24 – Review: "MacHomer" offers up Shakespeare by The Simpsons
     
  • Fri., 24 – Review: Fringe hit "Altar Boyz" makes a joyful noise at Prairie Theatre Exchange
     
  • Wed., 22 – WATCH: 2012 Winnipeg Comedy Festival brings on the laughs
     
  • Thu., 16 – Five reasons to see local celebrities take up the acting challenge
     
  • Wed., 15 – Watch: Royal Winnipeg Ballet students stretch in "First Steps" Choreographic Competition has students show their stuff
     
  • Fri., 10 – Review: "The Fighting Days" makes a welcome homecoming at MTC
     
  • Wed., 8 – Watch:"Fighting Days" chronicles important events in Winnipeg's past
     
  • Tue., 7 – Contest: Tell us how you beat the February blues for chance to win Manitoba Theatre Centre prize pack
     
  • Mon., 6 – Young ballet hopefuls leap at the chance to join the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School's Professional Division
     
  • Fri., 3 – Watch: Fred Penner brings his cat back to Manitoba Theatre for Young People
     
  • Fri., 3 – Review: "Q" is for "quite naughty" and "quite hilarious" in "Avenue Q"
     
  • Thu., 2 – Review: ShawFest doesn't save the best for last, alas
     
• January 2012
  • Thu., 26 – Theatre Preview: Winnipeg Jewish Theatre kicks off something funny with "Tribefest"
     
  • Wed., 25 – "Les Disparus" or "The Disappeared" finds francophone and anglophone audience
     
  • Wed., 25 – SHAW in the RAW: "Village Wooing" Re-Defined
     
  • Tue., 24 – More Reviews: Winnipeg's ShawFest continues
     
  • Mon., 23 – Review: Winnipeg's ShawFest living up to master billing
     
  • Fri., 20 – Review: Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession" still provocative after all these years
     
  • Fri., 20 – Review: PTE's "Lost: A Memoir" is a compelling but wandering tale
     
  • Wed., 18 – Watch: Winnipeg is about to get Shavian with ShawFest
     
  • Fri., 13 – Watch: MTYP's musical "The Last Tree of Rapa Nui" tackles important environmental theme
     
  • Thu., 12 – Watch: Comedian Don Kelly riffs on hosting CBC's "Trailbreakers"
     
  • Fri., 6 – Review: MTC's "Shirley Valentine" is easy to love
     
  • Fri., 6 – Watch: "Shirley Valentine" returns to the Winnipeg stage
     
  • Sun., 1 – Manitoba's arts and culture storymakers offer New Year's resolutions
     
• December 2011
  • Sat., 31 – Top Ten 2011 Manitoba stories on SCENE
     
  • Thu., 29 – Kelly Hughes gets all misty-eyed about MTYP
     
  • Tue., 27 – Five family-friendly festivities in Winnipeg over the holidays
     
  • Fri., 23 – All for one and one for the holidays: Three Munschketeers at Prairie Theatre Exchange
     
  • Thu., 22 – It's not the Sugar Plum fairy but "Nutcracker" walk-on extra gets a taste for the stage
     
  • Wed., 21 – Dear Royal Winnipeg Ballet, no tights please, I'm Muslim
     
  • Wed., 21 – Winnipeg loses a dance and musical theatre icon
     
  • Tue., 20 – 'Tis the season for Royal Winnipeg Ballet's "Nutcracker"
     
  • Sat., 17 – Ismaila Alfa now directs the traffic on SCENE
     
  • Fri., 16 – Buy local and win: Top ten made-in-Manitoba gift suggestions
     
  • Wed., 14 – The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival announces indoor performers for 2012
     
  • Tue., 13 – Winnipeg Fringe goes back to the future with "Retro Readings"
     
  • Fri., 9 – Review: "Pooh Corner" a hot ticket at Manitoba Theatre for Young People
     
  • Thu., 8 – Things will be great when you're downtown
     
  • Wed., 7 – "Eight Tiny Reindeer of the Apocalypse" offers bracing tonic to the madness of the holiday season
     
• November 2011
  • Tue., 29 – The truth about Christmas -- at last
     
  • Mon., 28 – "Spring Awakening" exposes teen angst on Winnipeg stage
     
  • Fri., 25 – A Jew and a Muslim walk into a theatre...for a new take on "Romeo and Juliet"
     
  • Fri., 25 – Review: Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's "Romeo and Juliet" teases... but disappoints
     
  • Thu., 24 – Playwright Rick Chafe reveals his inspiration behind "The Secret Mask"
     
  • Tue., 22 – Royal Winnipeg Ballet cancels three performances of "Svengali"
     
  • Fri., 18 – Confounding wordplay makes for great theatre in PTE's "The Secret Mask"
     
  • Fri., 18 – Improvised Shakespeare Company shakes, stirs audiences with laughter at MTYP
     
  • Thu., 17 – This weekend's forecast: A flurry of independent Winnipeg theatre
     
  • Thu., 10 – "To be or not to be": Shakespeare in the Ruins performing for its future
     
  • Tue., 8 – Award-winning comic Steve Patterson cracks up Winnipeggers with "Just for Laughs"
     
  • Fri., 4 – THEATRE REVIEW: "The Vibrator Play" delivers satisfaction
     
  • Thu., 3 – NAfro brings dynamic contemporary African dance to Winnipeg stage
     
• October 2011
  • Sun., 30 – Actor/director of "The Hobbit" reflects on dual roles: More like Gollum than Bilbo Baggins
     
  • Fri., 28 – Theatre Review: MTYP's "The Hobbit" delivers big visual bang
     
  • Thu., 27 – Theatre Review: Powerful drama paves "Way to Heaven"
     
  • Tue., 25 – Winnipeg Jewish Theatre opens season with "Way to Heaven"
     
  • Mon., 24 – "Bun me up, Scottie!" Winnipeg bakers welcome William Shatner
     
  • Sun., 23 – "Operation Las Vegas comedy adventure" with Winnipeg's Aisha Alfa
     
  • Thu., 20 – Dance Review: "Svengali" casts a deep spell
     
  • Tue., 18 – Falling under the spell of "Svengali" with Royal Winnipeg Ballet
     
  • Tue., 18 – Under the B for "Bingo!": Behind-the-scenes with Ted Atherton
     
  • Fri., 14 – Theatre Review: Fun watching adults regress to awkward boys and girls in "Bingo!"
     
  • Thu., 13 – Theatre Review: If you're feeling cranky "Grumpy Old Men" probably won't help
     
  • Fri., 7 – Theatre Review: From Russia (via Moose Jaw) with love (and melancholy)
     
  • Wed., 5 – Chekhov's "Three Sisters" gets makeover on Winnipeg stage
     
  • Mon., 3 – Win season tickets to Prairie Theatre Exchange with your favorite high school song
     
• September 2011
  • Thu., 29 – New Winnipeg theatre season kicks off with independent play on politics
     
  • Thu., 29 – Fringe alert: Veterans, rogue cops, and Hot Thespians return to Winnipeg stages
     
  • Wed., 21 – Watch Winnipeg's CRUMBS give SCENE some toasty improv
     
  • Fri., 16 – Why Winnipeg needs FemFest
     
  • Thu., 1 – Tazzy's Angels bring saucy stand-up to Winnipeg's Aqua Books
     
• August 2011
  • Tue., 30 – Winnipeg comedian Ryan McMahon travels beyond the boundaries of Indian Country
     
  • Thu., 25 – THEATRE REVIEW: "Wicked" ain't bad at all
     
  • Fri., 5 – Production of "Hairspray" allows Rainbow Stage to play again
     
• July 2011
  • Fri., 29 – Manitoba's second Fringe festival hits the shores of Clear Lake on the long weekend
     
  • Thu., 28 – RWB's Ballet in the Park fuels passion for dance
     
  • Wed., 27 – Dance Preview: Another Winnipeg tradition - Ballet in the Park
     
  • Thu., 21 – "Little Red Riding Hood" at the Fringe named one of the best of the fest
     
  • Thu., 21 – CBC Review Crew picks their favourite Winnipeg Fringe plays
     
  • Wed., 20 – Fringe Festival announces "Best of Fest"
     
  • Tue., 19 – Winnipeg Fringe Festival's "Monopoly Man Pit" fuels hot debate
     
  • Thu., 14 – Winnipeg Fringe Festival: (Giving) stars and (taking) stripes redux
     
  • Wed., 13 – 10 reviewers plus 150 Winnipeg Fringe shows equals every show reviewed by Sunday
     
  • Wed., 13 – 10 things to watch for at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival
     
  • Mon., 11 – Fringe festival 101 primer, just in case you've never been
     
  • Fri., 8 – Art and music in Winnipeg's Exchange this Friday
     
  • Tue., 5 – Former restaurant worker remembers her ghostly experiences at Winnipeg's old Masonic Temple
     
• June 2011
  • Wed., 22 – Performance Psychology with Winnipeg's Drek Daa
     
  • Wed., 22 – Five Reasons why Winnipeg Fringe Fest is one of the best
     
  • Wed., 15 – The greatest (Fringe) show on earth (or at least in Winnipeg) is about to begin!
     
  • Tue., 7 – Award-winning doc "TutuMuch" goes behind the scenes at RWB school of dance‏
     
  • Fri., 3 – REVIEW: SIR's "Henry IV" tastes pretty good, but definitely less filling
     
• May 2011
  • Wed., 25 – Winnipeg Harvest helps feed an inner hunger for those craving to do Shakespeare
     
  • Wed., 25 – What Winnipeg theatre season is right for you?
     
  • Tue., 17 – Theatre Projects Manitoba announces all-new, all-Manitoba season
     
  • Mon., 16 – NFB film celebrates the artistic achievements of MTYP founder Leslee Silverman
     
  • Fri., 13 – Sweeney Todd at the CanWest Performing Arts Centre
     
  • Fri., 13 – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is back in Winnipeg: Preview of "Sweeney Todd"
     
  • Mon., 9 – Six tips for the Manitoba theatre-goer on a budget
     
  • Mon., 2 – Shakespeare and the Simpsons: Manitoba Theatre for Young People's 2011-2012 season
     
• April 2011
  • Fri., 29 – Arts students create project on homelessness in Winnipeg
     
  • Wed., 27 – Prairie Scene: Five fast questions with playwright Michael Nathanson
     
  • Mon., 25 – Theatre Review: "Wingfield Lost and Found" finds gentle, predictable laughs
     
  • Thu., 21 – The 39 Steps on stage at MTC
     
  • Thu., 21 – Theatre Review: Mel Brooks meets Hitchcock in "The 39 Steps"
     
  • Wed., 20 – Wingfield Lost and Found at PTE
     
  • Mon., 11 – Theatre: 'Tis the season of the fundraiser
     
  • Thu., 7 – Moonlight Sonata playwright delves into the art of the edit
     
  • Wed., 6 – Lorne Cardinal's early beginnings with Thunderstick playwright
     
  • Fri., 1 – Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz: Brummtopp explained
     
  • Fri., 1 – Theatre review: "One of Ours" is smart, funny... and sexy?!?
     
• March 2011
  • Thu., 31 – Theatre review: Lorne Cardinal and Craig Lauzon in PTE's "Thunderstick"
     
  • Wed., 30 – Thunderstick: PTE play stars Lorne Cardinal and Craig Lauzon
     
  • Mon., 28 – Circus INcognitus: It ain't easy being a clown
     

Desserts

Views of Kildonan Settlers bridge, Main Street and North Kildonan

Drinks

Views of Route 90 and Portage Ave.

Entrees

Views of Osborne, Confusion Corner, the Legislature and the Osborne Street bridge