After yet another successful season, Theatre New Brunswick rounded off the year traditionally, bringing a musical rendition of the beloved Disney classic Beauty and the Beast to life. Director Tania Breen pulled all the right strings for this immersive performance on the eve of TNB’s 50th anniversary. Continue reading In Review: TNB’s Beauty And The Beast An Exemplary Finish To The Season
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Theatre New Brunswick Roll Out 50th Anniversary Season
Theatre New Brunswick announced a big milestone today as they embark on their 50th anniversary season. From September 2018 to April 2019, TNB will be presenting an exciting lineup of seven productions across the province: Any Given Moment, Come Down From Up River, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Gretel & Hansel, Sania the Destroyer, A Brief History of the Maritimes and Everywhere Else, and The Wizard of Oz. Continue reading Theatre New Brunswick Roll Out 50th Anniversary Season
In Review: TNB’s Season Opener ‘Fortune Of Wolves’
Theatre New Brunswick’s 2017-2018 season has opened with Fortune of Wolves, an ambitious dramatic undertaking. Written by New Brunswick playwright Ryan Griffith, Fortune of Wolves tells the story of Lowell, a young man who leaves home to travel across Canada, doing tape recorder interviews with those he meets along the way. On his journey, though, accounts of unexplained disappearances and supernatural phenomena start turning up in both the interviews and in Lowell’s own audio journals. These sinister peripherals boil over at the end the first act, at which point the play takes on a far more apocalyptic tone, though the exact nature of what is happening is left intentionally vague. The play’s second half finds itself far more reminiscent of Stephen King’s ‘The Mist’ or of Cloverfield, if it had also been a roadtrip movie, focusing on the reactions of everyday individuals and civilized society across the country in the face of a horrific yet unknowable threat. Continue reading In Review: TNB’s Season Opener ‘Fortune Of Wolves’
Theatre New Brunswick Announces 2017-2018 Season
The new 2017-2018 season for Theatre New Brunswick has just been officially announced, and holds plenty of promise. With a larger touring network, a series of artist training workshops, and exciting new theatre concepts in the works, it’s looking to be a busy year. Continue reading Theatre New Brunswick Announces 2017-2018 Season
In Review: TNB’s ‘The Snow Queen’
Just in time for Christmas, Theatre New Brunswick’s production of ‘The Snow Queen’ premiered this Thursday, with such apt timing that the recent cold snap is starting to seem like a conveniently-timed marketing campaign. A faithful adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s classic fairy tale by the same name with a script by TNB Artistic Director Thomas Morgan Jones, ‘The Snow Queen’ is a light-hearted, enjoyable seasonal tale that’s fun for the whole family. Continue reading In Review: TNB’s ‘The Snow Queen’