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As the world sinks deeper into Global Recession, is Global Depression next?
Charles Dickens would have a heyday if he were alive to witness this.
The only thing people can do is help and give to each other.
God Bless Us Everyone and let's hope we can gracefully endure these dark times ahead.
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Coral Andrews has always loved All Things Arts and Entertainment.
She started her writing career in the late 70’s discovering music, film and television genres A to Z.
Interviews over the last 25 years include an intriguing mix of celebs, classical actors, comics, writers, playwrights, filmmakers, and musicians old and new AND
Once in a Lifetime One to Ones including Phyllis Diller, Lynn Redgrave, Cynthia Lennon, and The Amazing Kreskin,
Actors : Colm Feore, Lucy Peacock, David Johansen, Domini Blythe, Richard MacMillan, Edward Atienza, Seana McKenna, Margot Kidder, Eric Peterson, Ted Dykstra, Bruce Dow, Eric Donkin, Janet Wright, Sara Topham, Brian Tree, Dion Johnstone, Wayne Best, Fiona Byrne, Michael Ball, Peter Donaldson, Diane Daquila, Jonathan Goad, Bernard Hopkins, Cara Pifko, Stephen Ouimette, Michael Therriault, Jim Mezon, Leon Pownall, Martha Henry, Fiona Reid, Michael Riley, Michael Murphy, and Kate Trotter and Directors: Neil Munro, Jackie Maxwell plus many more from 25 years of covering the Stratford Shakespeare and Shaw Festivals.
Musicians : Jeff Healey, Carole Pope, Scott Merritt, Nana Mouskouri, Peter Ulrich, Stephen Fearing, David Francey, Lynn Miles, Bruce Cockburn, Loreena McKennitt, Nash the Slash, Lene Lovich, Dizzy Gillespie, Della Reese, Artie Shaw, Mitch Miller, Frank Patterson, Mary Lou Fallis, Gerry Marsden of Gerry and The Pacemakers, Reg Presley of The Troggs, Bo Diddley, Peter Noone of Herman and the Hermits, Ronnie Hawkins, Pete Best, Luthier – Linda Manzer, plus manager Allan Williams, and artist Pauline Sutcliffe and others over 30 years of music coverage.
Filmmakers – Atom Egoyan, Brigette Berman, Terrance Odette, Cynthia Scott,
Special EffectsTechnicians – Neil Trifunovich, and Stephan Dupuis.
Film pundit - Wyndham Wise of Northern Stars.ca
Writers – Michael McClure, Gwynne Dyer, Nino Ricci.
Playwrights - George. F. Walker, Dani Romain, Colleen Murphy, Linda Griffiths, Sonia Mills, Vern Thiessen, Adam Kelly, Michael Healey and Dave Bidini with more to come!
Comics -Graham Chapman of Monty Python, Dan Ackroyd, Billy Connolly, Weird Al Yankovic, The Frantics, The Air Farce, Mark Breslin, Mike MacDonald, and Peter Keleghan.
Coral's by-line has appeared in many publications including Saturday Night, Take One Magazine, and The New Quarterly and she currently writes for Canadian lifestyle publications Grand Magazine, Guelph Life and daily The Waterloo Regional Record.
Coral has also written for Performing Arts and Entertainment in Canada, and Canplay in addition to other Canadian publications Graffiti Magazine, Network Magazine, The Music Scene, Harrowsmith Magazine, and Celtic Heritage, while freelancing for many regional bi-weeklies.
She has hosted campus / community radio arts and entertainment magazine Coral FM for 30 years in the Waterloo Region. Coral FM won a Sonic Boom Award for Best Current Affairs Show in 2006, and 2007 for CKMS FM. She also won an award for 17 years of broadcasting at CKWR FM
Coral Concerts has presented Canadian talents Nash the Slash, Microbunny, Tamara Williamson, Bob Wiseman, and Tim Mech’s Peep Show.
From 2004 to 2008, Coral was / producer and publicist for Poor Tom Productions based in Kitchener Waterloo, Ontario.
Coral produced and promoted eight productions for Poor Tom including – The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, The Anorak by Adam Kelly, Not About Heroes by Stephen MacDonald, The Kindness of Strangers - featuring the world première of The Visit by Canadian playwright Kenneth J. Emberly and I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow by Tennessee Williams, Revelations, by Kenneth J. Emberly, Savage / Love by Sam Shepard, and Top Girls by Caryl Churchill, in addition to The Designated Mourner, by Wallace Shawn for Isinglass Theatre.
Coral played the role of Linda Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman for Poor Tom and the roles of Isabella Lucy Bird, and Joyce in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls for Poor Tom Productions and Paradox Theatre.
Coral’s very eclectic, but always comes back to writing about her first love — The Theatre.
Coral finds the theatre fascinating from centre-stage, to the aisles, to its ever-changing audience as she pursues this continuing passion for playwrights – a passion comes from reviewing and interviewing many actors and actresses over the years and from her role as actor / producer for Poor Tom Productions. From Canada’s Michael Healey and George F. Walker, to America’s Tennessee Williams and Doug Wright, to England’s Caryl Churchill and Joe Orton, Coral discovers the playwright’s voice – a universal, prophetic voice she wants to share with you.