Over the next four years, several students at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts will have the opportunity to benefit from a generous bursary established to honour Canada-based Jamaican Grace Lyons, founder of the Heritage.
Theatre is bouncing back big time after the trials and tribulations of Covid. A couple of years ago, stages were dark, but this past weekend drama aficionados were able to see no less than six productions in the Corporate Area. Five of them.
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The Jamaican pantomime has been around since 1941, initially a production of The Little Theatre Movement (LTM), but as of early this year, a Pantomime Company-owned musical. Skoolaz 3.0, the current show, is based on an original pantomime,.
Come December 26, the Pantomime Company will present Skoolaz 3.0, the first full length, face-to-face, Boxing Day production since the pandemic. A reboot that is straight out of the panto guide book, it also sends a signal that pantomime is here.