Published:Sunday | April 17, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
Wednesday, April 13, 2016, was memorable for some students at the School of Drama, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.Discouraged by their family, friends and the society in general, a number of them were on the verge of quitting...
Published:Tuesday | April 12, 2016 | 12:43 PMMarcia Rowe
Sunday saw the fourth in the Jamaica Musical Theatre Company 2015-2016 monthly concert series, These Magical Moments.It was indeed magical moments for the organisers when the seats of the Alhambra Inn in Kingston began to fill up, in spite of the...
Published:Monday | April 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
The amazing concept that evolved from a practice of listening to music through a headphone in a dance studio was transferred to Emancipation Park, located at the intersection of the busy Half-Way Tree and Oxford Roads, recently.It was quite a...
Published:Thursday | March 31, 2016 | 10:22 AMMarcia Rowe
On Easter Monday, the southern entrance to the Royal Botanical Gardens, Hope Road, St Andrew, was transformed into a playland once again. Adding to the joyful atmosphere were rides ranging from the tried and proven merry-go-round to the more modern...
Published:Wednesday | March 16, 2016 | 2:49 PMMarcia Rowe
A number of young Jamaican tech enthusiasts, creative minds, storytellers and others, attended the recently staged biannual KingstOOn animating creativity Conference.Moving from one session to the next, they traversed the campus of the Edna Manley...
Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
Created and directed by Owen 'Blakka' Ellis, He Said, She Said is a social commentary on the unthinkable in relationships. It is also a patchwork of short tales unfolded through dialogues, monologues, singing, and dancing by a talented cast, all...
Published:Sunday | March 13, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
The second chapter in the Kingston Book Festival (KBF) 2016, Late Nite Lit, was opened on Thursday against the backdrop of a sky sprinkled with winking stars and nodding mango trees.From the pages came profound life lessons and alluring social...
Published:Sunday | March 6, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
For its sixth annual staging on Saturday night, the Simply Myrna concert was moved to the lawns of Devon House at the corner of Waterloo and Hope roads, St Andrew. But while the venue offers an open-air, idyllic setting, it is vulnerable to weather...
Published:Tuesday | March 1, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
When Ken Nelson asked Rosina Christina Moder to perform on the November 2015 edition of Jazz in the Gardens: Jazz Divas, she declined the invitation and told him that she would only perform if he put on a show with musical families. Nelson took the...
Published:Monday | February 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
While there is plenty to laugh about in Basil Dawkins' latest play, Guilt Trip it is anger, not humour, that first greets the audience at the Little Little Theatre. And it remains the dominant emotion...
Published:Thursday | February 18, 2016 | 8:53 PMMarcia Rowe
The recent staging of the Boulevard Baptist Church's (BBC) Festival of Choirs saw a variety of groups ministering through song. And, like their song selections, the groups, drawn from other denominations as well as non-denominations, reinforced the...
Published:Monday | February 15, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
Imagine being a Christian living in an inner-city community and, on the eve of Valentine's Day, you and your partner are given the opportunity to attend a banquet for couples, and you learn more about love and marriage.On arrival at the venue, you...
Published:Sunday | February 14, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
David Tulloch's tragedy Not My Child is more than entertainment. It is a catalyst for change.The play is based on a true story and Tulloch not only cleverly conceals the lines between reality and creativity, but, as the director, is also able to...
Published:Thursday | February 11, 2016 | 5:02 PMMarcia Rowe
If Lennon 'Lenny' Crooks had had his way, last season's staging of the annual Simply Myrna would have been the last. However, event patrons Sir Kenneth and Lady Hall, along with fans, had other ideas. This resulted in not only the sixth staging, to...
Published:Monday | February 8, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
FOR THE last three years, and previously, a team from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), under the banner of BBC 1XTra, has been making the trip to Jamaica, “to recharge their musical battery”. This year, one of the focus is on...
Published:Monday | January 18, 2016 | 11:16 AMMarcia Rowe
When Adassa Jonas (Camille Davis) and her neighbours, Sky McGuiness (Sakina Deer) and her husband Coby Smith (Courtney Wilson), along with their helper, Gerda (Sharee Elise) engineered a plan to help her out of her unhappy marriage to Dr Sefus Jonas...
Published:Sunday | January 10, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
Last Thursday, the Shakespeare School Championship website was launched at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston. Organisers of the competition, Generating Genius, also provided information on season two, shared lessons already learnt, and...
Published:Tuesday | January 5, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
It is not by coincidence that situation comedies are usually seen only on television, and they are no more than 30 minutes in length. In Dahlia Harris' full-length play, Same Difference, the reason for this became clear.Harris' script generated the...
Published:Sunday | January 3, 2016 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
On Thursday night, a wide cross section of persons converged on the usually tranquil Kingston Waterfront to ring in the New Year. They were treated to not only more space than in previous years and good...
Published:Monday | December 28, 2015 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
There are a number of ways to gauge the success of a show. Three of these are the size of the audience, whether they stay to the end, as well as the calibre of artistes on the programme. Sunday's staging of Jazz in the Gardens, A Feast of the Senses...
Published:Tuesday | December 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
Before the birth of Christ, God gave Moses the Ten Commandments on "two tables of stone". Centuries later, Fabian Barracks, a Jamaican, received an inspiration for a scorching sermon based on the Commandments; in particular the seventh one: "Neither...
Published:Sunday | December 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
Bangarang means disturbance or commotion. This is the essence of the play of that name, written by David Tulloch, which opened last Friday night at the Green Gables Theatre, Cargill Avenue, St Andrew. The playwright, aided by convincing acting and...
Published:Tuesday | December 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus and no group is more aware of this than the Portmore Chorale. Each year, they target two churches to spread this joyful news mainly through unfamiliar yet uplifting Christmas carols.Recently, the...
Published:Sunday | December 13, 2015 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
On Wednesday, The Little Theatre Movement (LTM) launched the 2015-2016 production of its premiere event, the annual National Pantomime. Among the offerings at the intimate affair were enlightening speeches and acknowledgement of a retiree,...
Published:Monday | December 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe
The University of the West Indies Alumni Association (UWIAA) has designed a plan to engage and involve the alumni of the university in what is called the Alumni Reconnect, initiated by the Institutional Advancement Division, Office of the Vice-...
