Open this photo in gallery: Tom Rooney as King Magnus with the cast members of The Apple Cart.David Cooper/Shaw Festival Title: The Apple Cart Written by: George Bernard Shaw Director: Eda Holmes Actors: Tom Rooney, Sochi Fried Company: Shaw Festival Venue: Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre City: Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Year: Runs …
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attend the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala in New York City, on Dec. 6. 2022.ANDREW KELLY/Reuters Keep it together Re Our Polarized Politics Look Like They’ll Get Worse In 2023 (Jan. 5): What irks …
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The nightmare began two weeks before the unveiling. Jim Anagnoson’s standard anxiety dream, in which he was onstage at the piano and realized the conductor was beating his baton to a piece Anagnoson didn’t play – that dream he knew. Most concert pianists had their own version of it. Anagnoson …
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Bridget Lawson, centre, worked in Africa in later life for AMREF, a non-governmental organization that provides health care in East Africa. From 1984 to 1990, she was executive director of AMREF Canada and travelled to Africa twice a year.Courtesy of the Family The Second World War first altered the life …
Read More »A jogger takes a break on beside Mont Royal Chalet on the Mount Royal in Montreal on Oct. 29, 2020.Andrej Ivanov/The Globe and Mail Keep your Opinions sharp and informed. Get the Opinion newsletter. Sign up today. Not as it seems Re Parents, Minor-league Associations Question Transparency Of Hockey Canada’s …
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The Royal BC Museum in Victoria.CHAD HIPOLITO/The Globe and Mail Next week, the British Columbia government will lay out its business case for spending nearly $800-million to rebuild the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. The announcement, made May 13, was a shocker. B.C. Premier John Horgan promised a “safer, more …
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Tina Brown’s new book, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil is a follow-up to her well-received 2007 The Diana Chronicles and focuses on the period after the Princess’s death.Handout In July, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, invited Tina Brown, then-editor of The New …
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Jake Epstein decided to channel his complicated feelings about his experiences into a song-filled solo show, Boy Falls From the Sky.Luke Fontana/Handout Jake Epstein has some showbiz stories to tell. The erstwhile Degrassi: The Next Generation star went down to the United States to follow a musical-theatre career, making his …
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The Royal Hotel has anchored Picton, Ont.’s Main Street since 1879. Built to service an influx of commercial travellers and tourists brought into the area by the Prince Edward County railway, it was, according to The Settler’s Dream, a pictorial history of the County’s older buildings, the grandest accommodation in …
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When the Royal opens its doors this month in Picton, it will support many of the 27 recommendations set out in Prince Edward County’s destination development plan.The Royal Hotel In July of last year, as tourist sites around the world stood empty, Sandbanks Provincial Park in Ontario’s Prince Edward County …
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