National coverage

[Gaetan Charlebois]

>You mean there is theatre in Canada outside T'ronna?  As you say, you wouldn't
>know it from the "national" press - except when occasionally they go to NY.
>And if you read the entertainment page of our local paper, you'd be inclined
>to believe that for the most part it was printed in Burbank.
>
>Brian Parkinson
>
>Gaetan Charlebois wrote:
>
>> I don't know about the rest of you but after months of forcing myself to
>> slog through the Globe and Mail and just a couple of weeks of the National
>> Post, I've given up on any kind of national theatre coverage emerging from
>> Toronto (don't get me started on MacLeans). I think the final insult came
>> with the first Sat. edition of the Post not having a word about
>> theatre...anywhere. And if I open our soi-disant National Paper (G&M) one
>> more time to find JUST the theatre in Toronto covered, I'll join a
>> monastery.  Why aren't we, in the rest of the country, more yanked off
>> about this?
>>
>> Gaetan Charlebois

I got a better one. Cirque du Soleil opened a new show in Las Vegas in a
theatre that was created especially for it. Our local newspaper, The
Gazette, covered the opening with two articles: one from the New York Times
and one from a Vegas paper!

Gaetan