Broadway Across Canada’s Hairspray Exemplifies why Live Theatre is so Precious

 Broadway Across Canada’s production of Hairspray made its National Arts Centre (NAC) debut last night, where it will run through November 19th. As a man with a shaved head, I was looking forward to seeing a musical named after a product I don’t use. Based on a book by Mark

Tearing Up With the Cast and Director of Cry Baby

 First they attacked with man-eating plants in Little Shop of Horrors. Then they decided to bring Shakespeare into the American Civil War with Othello. Now Theatre Kraken is falling back into the “waters” of cult cinema to unleash a campy John Waters flick turned hit Broadway musical. No, not Hairspray,