An actor at the University of Maryland writes about his experiences performing in a Grand Guignol production on campus: “I’m very thankful for this opportunity to explore such an obscure artform, one that is seldom done anymore. Grand Guignol is such a melodramatic, overly-exaggerated way of theatre. It definitely goes for shock value, using realistic [...]

The first reviews of our new show Hypnodrome Head Trips are starting to trickle in. In her review for the San Francisco Bay Times titled “A Grand Time at Grand Guignol,” Linda Ayres-Frederick writes: With high technical production values, Thrillpeddlers lives up to their name, delivering thrills that stimulate the mind and other portions of [...]

The reviews are in for CanStage’s revival of The Rocky Horror Show, which opened last week at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto, and they’re not pretty. Paula Citron of the Globe and Mail writes: Pity the poor Rocky Virgins, that distinct underclass of society who has never experienced either the stage or movie versions [...]

Perez Hilton has posted the first public glimpse of Johnny Depp in the title roll of Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, currently in production in London. Sweeney Todd is the big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 Grand Guignol Broadway musical about a throat-slashing barber and his meat-pie-making accomplice (Helena Bonham Carter). Variety is reporting the film [...]