News & Reviews
February 9, 2012
TNB Next Stage presents The Dollar Woman
Starring an All-New Brunswick Cast
From February 29 – March 4, the TNB Next Stage’s production of The Dollar Woman uncovers a dark secret of New Brunswick’s past. It was only a little over a century ago that a community’s poor would be auctioned off to the lowest bidder. Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning’s gripping and controversial play transports us back to a small New Brunswick town and the showdown between a well-intentioned pauper overseer and a crusading newspaper editor at the final auction. What will become of a community divided? What will become of the last woman sold for a dollar?
The 35th Anniversary production brings together an all New Brunswick cast, the largest gathering of the province’s professional theatre talent on one stage including Walter Learning himself as crusading newspaper editor George Frances Train.
“The writing partnership of Walter Learning and Alden Nowlan was a landmark in TNB’s history and The Dollar Woman marks the first time TNB premiered a play about New Brunswick,” Marshall says. “Today part of our company mission is to celebrate New Brunswick content and artists. I don’t think we’ve ever done it better than in The Dollar Woman.”
“It will be a New Brunswick theatre event that is not to be missed.” Full press release including full cast listing…
January 30, 2012
New Chairs to head TNB Board of Governors and TNB Foundation
Theatre New Brunswick has welcomed Chris Baker as a the new Chair of the TNB Board of Governors. Baker replaces Ilkay Silk who has chaired the Board of Governors for six years. In May Silk will assume the Chair of the TNB Foundation which was formed in 2003 as a separate fundraising body to promote the public profile and financial stability of Theatre New Brunswick allowing it to meet its challenges, fulfill its mandate and grow.
“Ilkay has guided the board through a challenging restructuring of the company to a period of real growth ,” said TNB Artistic Producer Caleb Marshall. “Chris has the experience to help see that growth continue and see TNB continue to provide extraordinary theatre that inspires and entertains our audience while celebrating New Brunswick’s best theatre content and artists.”
Marshall extended thanks to the outgoing Chair of the TNB Foundation Clare McCain.
“It’s really not an overstatement to say that without Clare’s tireless work there would be no TNB Foundation. She led the charge on this from the very beginning and during a very challenging period in Theatre New Brunswick’s history,” said Marshall. “Her dedication and effort raised significant funds that helped us put TNB back in the cultural spotlight here in New Brunswick and across the country.”
November 14, 2011
TNB presents The Gifts of the Magi, December 1-4 at the Fredericton Playhouse
It’s Christmas in New York, but for two young lovers the prospects are bleak. Will parting with their most precious possession solve their gift-giving dilemma? What will happen to cheerful bum Soapy’s plan for an unusual winter getaway? And with all this hustle and bustle, will newsboy Willy find any warmth and giving in the cold impersonal city?
“O. Henry’s The Gifts of the Magi still has tremendous resonance with a modern audience,” says TNB Artistic Producer Caleb Marshall who directs the production. “This show also draws on the great O. Henry story The Cop and the Anthem; both are stories I certainly remember from my childhood but rarely dramatized on stage. This heartfelt musical telling of O. Henry’s work is sure to put audiences in the Christmas spirit.”
Playing the couple at the heart of The Gifts of the Magi are Patrick Cook (Jimmy, Chairmaker,TNB 2004) and Jacqueline Thair (Mary, It’s a Wonderful Life, TNB 2009). Veteran New Brunswick character actor Sheldon Davis returns for his fourth TNB production having previously appeared in Kringle’s Window (1996), Jasper Station (2003) and Dear Santa (2003). They are joined by Vaughn Harris, Robert Yeretch and New Brunswick native Martha Farrell (Elaine, The Graduate, TNB 2006)
“This gifted cast of New Brunswick talent, returning artists and new faces bring exceptional acting and musical talent to this holiday production,” says Marshall.
8 November 2011
TNB Resident Designer Patrick Clark awarded Lieutenant Governor’s Award
Fredericton, NB – Theatre New Brunswick’s Resident Set and Costume Designer Patrick Clark has received the 2011 Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for High Achievement in the Arts (Performing Arts -Theatre).
“At Theatre New Brunswick our mission is to create extraordinary professional theatre that inspires and entertains our audience while celebrating New Brunswick’s best theatre artists,” says TNB Artistic Producer Caleb Marshall. “It’s wonderful as a company to see one of our resident designers recognizes with this prestigious and well-deserved honour.” Read More
1 November 2011
Call for Submissions for New Voices: Our Playwrights. Our Stories.
Theatre New Brunswick to partner with NotaBle Acts on new play development
Fredericton, NB –Theatre New Brunswick and NotaBle Acts are calling on emerging and established New Brunswick playwrights to submit their one-act plays for New Voices. This province-wide call for short plays offers playwrights the opportunity to have their New Brunswick stories professionally produced as Opening Acts on the TNB Main Stage in the 2012-13 season.
“Part of TNB’s mission is to create extraordinary theatre while celebrating New Brunswick ’s best theatre artists,” says TNB Artistic Producer Caleb Marshall. “I started New Voices with the belief that we have so many great stories waiting to be told. That was certainly confirmed in the submissions we received and I’m hoping to discover many new stories through this new call for submissions.” Read more…
