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INTERCOUNTY BASEBALL: Majors can count on Palmer to go the distance
JULY 24: Josh Palmer will be on the mound when the London Majors begin the playoffs on Sunday. He intends to still be there when the game ends.
Delaware looks back on golden era
JULY 25: Race fans can take a trip down memory lane tomorrow night when the Lucas Oil Canadian Modifieds come to Delaware Speedway.
HOT TICKET: Innocence Lost
JULY 30-SEPT. 6: The much-anticipated play about the Steven Truscott story is ready to unveil next week at the Blyth Festival.
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REVIEW: Nuge keeps rock comin'
TILL JULY 26: He roared into Harris Park last night with his guitar ablazing like the guns he loves and his mouth spewing non-stop music and talk of hunting with his Canadian buddies.
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Around the Town
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Golf Fundraiser
JULY 14: The Mixed Celebrity Golf Classic for breast cancer pre-tournament cocktail party was held at Firerock Golf Course.
Fourth Annual Summer Celebration
JULY 7: The fourth annual end-of-season Summer Celebration for Orchestra London was held yesterday at Avstar Landing, the Ilderton-area home of David Taylor, president of Pacific & Western Bank of Canada. The event, sponsored by Taylor and the bank, drew 750 guests including Orchestra London members, patrons, their families and bank staff.
Strawberries and Champagne in the Country
JUNE 30: A fundraiser for Fanshawe Chorus London and the Gerald Fagan Singers was held at the home of Hank and Anne Vander Laan.
Aroma Mediterranean Restaurant
JUNE 30: The restaurant celebrated its second anniversary and the opening of its wine cellar with a fundraiser for the Robotic Surgery Simulation Centre at London Health Sciences Centre's University Campus.
Kaleidoscope Ride
JUNE 30: A concert at Aeolian Hall to raise awareness of autism featured the singing duo of Sarah Sobey, who has autism, and her mother, Kim Souch.
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On the Boards
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HOT TICKET: Innocence Lost
JULY 30-SEPT. 6: The much-anticipated play about the Steven Truscott story is ready to unveil next week at the Blyth Festival.
Truscott on playbill
JULY 30-SEPT. 6: In a bold move, the Blyth Festival -- one of the region's foremost theatre companies -- has added the Stephen Truscott story to its upcoming playbill, generating early buzz.
Alternative vaudeville theatre troupe pushing limits
JULY 31, AUG. 1: Southwestern Ontario is known for its theatre, from the Stratford Festival to London's Fringe Festival.
REVIEW: Scoundrels on stage, scalawags in our hearts
TILL AUG. 9: The glitz and glamour of Broadway mesmerizes from the start as the curtain goes up on the Canadian premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Huron Country Playhouse.
CENTRESTAGE: Kelly praises local 'stars'
TILL AUG. 10: Jessica Kelly has worked with John Cusack, Eugene Levy and Anjelica Huston, to name a few Hollywood stars.
REVIEW: When home's where the pot grows
TILL AUG. 16: Good writing knows its audience, but also manages to convey something universal. The trick is to say something that will resonate with anyone, but in a way that meets them exactly where they are.
Domestic bliss
TILL AUG. 29: Marriage, motherhood, a winter in a romantic locale and a couple of plum roles in the upcoming Shaw Festival season -- life is good for actress Fiona Byrne, and, frankly, it shows.
Blyth Festival rolls out playbill
TILL SEPT. 6: Blyth Festival officials are offering Londoners a peek at the festival's upcoming season on Saturday.
Grand explores life's various sides
OPENS SEPT. 23: Theatre reminds us of what it means to be human, Susan Ferley, the artistic director of the Grand Theatre, says.
Palace shimmers
OPENS SEPT. 26: Step inside the stately Palace Theatre and you can almost feel the presence of the actors, directors and stage managers who walked the halls of this historic building.
REVIEW: Sondheim's musical gets intimate onstage
TILL OCT. 4: NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE -- Fans of Stephen Sondheim's musicals are accustomed to passion, but when it comes to staging the work of the master of the thinking-man's musical, the Shaw Festival offers intimacy, too.
REVIEW: Forget Obama, this President wins in landslide
TILL OCT. 4: NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE -- For a fledgling director Blair Williams, takes his comedy seriously indeed, and that's good news for anyone wanting a heaping helping of laughter to wash down lunch here.
REVIEW: Social power play still relevant
TILL NOV. 1: Whoever observed that it's not the fall that kills you, but rather the landing, obviously was not talking about social slip-ups.
THEATRE: Tiny Tim, Molly actors focus of Grand search
NOV. 28-DEC. 24: "God bless us, every one!" may be heard throughout London playgrounds and day camps this summer as children brush up on their Tiny Tim lines.
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Stratford Festival
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AT STRATFORD: Shakespeare sonnets hit the stage
TILL AUG. 3: Defining Shakespeare as 'just a playwright' is a little like calling Michelangelo 'just a sculptor.'
REVIEW: Mess ends, well, eventually
TILL AUG. 23: When the name of the game is romantic comedy -- and when there is precious little romance on offer and a surfeit of forced comedy -- one doesn't need the gift of second sight to know that things aren't going to end well.
AT STRATFORD: Dennehy fuses both great dramas
TILL AUG. 31: Ask anyone who's ever fallen under the spell of fine theatre and they'll tell you some of the best theatre in the world takes place, not on the stage, but rather in your mind.
Star lights up festival
TILL AUG. 31: He meanders on stage with a wrinkled suit and a stagger in his step.
AT STRATFORD: Compelling piece of theatre
TILL OCT. 4: It could be described in its way as a kitchen-sink drama, written in the days before there were kitchen sinks.
REVIEW: Third dimension lost in students' Labour
TILL OCT. 4: There is a reason to see the Stratford Festival production of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost during its run in the Tom Patterson Theatre, where it opened last weekend.
REVIEW: The Hell of war
TILL OCT. 5: Regardless of who wins, it always seems to be the women who lose at war.
REVIEW: Big baggage, good voyage
TILL OCT. 25: If ever one needed proof positive that not every work created by a master is by extension a masterpiece -- or even that not all art is timeless -- one might be well advised to look to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
REVIEW: Cabaret steals heart
TILL OCT. 25: This may be your parents' Cabaret -- but chances are, it's going to take them awhile to recognize it.
REVIEW: Sure-footed actor leads Hamlet
TILL OCT. 26: Adrian Noble's direction advances Shakespeare's penetrating plot and tormented characters with confidence and ease.
Boy wonder(ful) at fest
TILL NOV. 1: In 1962, Ron Howard played Winthrop Paroo in the film version of The Music Man.
REVIEW: Goad's talent, charisma to the fore
TILL NOV. 1: It is a role that, for many, will always belong to the late Robert Preston.
REVIEW: Bittersweet debut
TILL NOV. 8: In his first production as artistic director of the newly rechristened Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Des McAnuff seems determined to establish that, when it comes to romance, he's an old-fashioned kind of guy.
COLUMN: Stage set for greatness
TILL NOV. 8: There's a Juliet who knows she's not in Kansas anymore.
Festival shows brave face
2008 SEASON: STRATFORD -- The Stratford Shakespeare Festival guide handed out on opening night of the 56th season shows two smiling artistic directors who are no longer here and a headline on the first page of the book touting The First Season of Our Future.
IN STRATFORD: Curtain rises on 'script' for Stratford
2008 SEASON: NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE -- In the past few months, one could be forgiven for thinking the Stratford Festival had become, in Shakespeare's words, "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
THEATRE: Stratford Festival's much ado isn't funny
2008 SEASON: In a world seemingly determined to reinforce at every turn the whole notion that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival still manages to stand as a shining beacon.
Stratford offers ticket specials
2008 SEASON: Such classics as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet can be seen at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival for as low as $20 a ticket, thanks to a new program.
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The Music File
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Winwood to Rock the Park
TILL JULY 26: London's big classic rock fest with the good cause is back for more in July.
Stratford pays tribute to Manuel
AUG. 4: Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins and Stratford-area rockers join forces next month to celebrate the legacy of the late Richard Manuel, the Stratford keyboard player and singer who rose to stardom with The Band.
ENTERTAINMENT BUZZ: Leppard, Idol return to JLC
AUG. 7: Def Leppard is coming back to the John Labatt Centre -- and they're bringing Billy Idol with them.
COLUMN: Increasing the Bandwidth
TILL AUG. 22: Alan Neal has checked in early for his gig as mainstage emcee of this weekend's Home County Folk Festival.
COLUMN: Summer concert guide '08
TILL AUG. 30: The summer concert calendar looks hot.
New venue steps out in style
TILL AUG. 31: Toes tapping to the big band music, Joy Gerofsky just wanted to get up and dance, like in the good old days.
Oasis booking confirms JLC buzz
SEPT. 9: This spring's Oasis buzz was right -- the British rock band won't leave Canada without stopping in London.
Idol Star, Travis among the acts on grandstand
SEPT 5-12: Western Fair's 2008 grandstand lineup makes room for an American Idol contender, plenty of Canadian content, some country and a touch of the blues.
ENTERTAINMENT BUZZ: Daughtry to play Western Fair on Sept. 12
SEPT. 12: The band led by the guy who should have won American Idol back in 2006 and had the best-selling U.S. album in 2007 is coming to the 2008 Western Fair.
ENTERTAINMENT BUZZ: Crow returns to JLC
SEPT 24: U.S. rocker Sheryl Crow is coming back to the John Labatt Centre.
Carnival stops at JLC
OCT. 6: Carrie Underwood fans can go for a spin on her Carnival Ride Tour this October as it makes a stop at the John Labatt Centre.
Henry Rollins, U.S. punk icon and anti-poet, London-bound
OCT. 21, 28, 30: The last time U.S. punk rocker and spoken word artist Henry Rollins brought his solo tour to Centennial Hall, it was 2003 -- and he made one thing clear from the start.
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