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Tom Rooney as Cyrano and Deborah Hay as Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac. (Photo by David Cooper) It’s fitting that Shaw Festival’s first 2022 presentation in one of its signature theatres is a play that was part of its last pre-pandemic full season.

Barbara Worthy The Academic and the Actress: A discussion of six decades of the Shaw Festival, was held virtually recently between two theatre experts.

Charles Richard-Hamelin will perform at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre in April. (Photo supplied) The spring 2022 Bravo Niagara! Festival season gets underway next Saturday, April 2 at 7 p.m .

Hallmark regulars Nazneen Contractor and Brennan Elliot star in The Perfect Pairing, a Christmas movie about love and icewine, It was partly filmed at Peller Estates, outside, in a vineyard and in the cellar.

Crossroads Public School graduate and current Grade 10 Laura Secord Secondary School student Catherine Dubois plays Yasmina, a math and science genius pondering her true calling as graduation looms.

Newfoundlander Heather Bambrick has a great voice and on-stage personality, promising an entertaining evening Monday.

Executive director Tim Jennings said during the AGM his most profound satisfaction was maintaining employment and contracts for staff and artists.

Steve Goldberger, in his newly revampted studio, has worked for two years complete his new CD.

Artist Pat Haftar’s painting, The Hiker, is part of the upcoming exhibit at the Pumphouse. It is done in acrylic with a palette knife. “I was drawn to the casual pose of the young lady and how relaxed and confident she looked,” says Haftar.

The Brubeck Brothers, Dan and Chris, with Chuck Lamb and Mike DeMicco, will pay tribute to the late Dave Brubeck on June 22 at the PAC’s Partridge Hall, part of the TD Jazz Series.