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Thanks to our audience members for supporting “The Island Summer Review 3” with plenty of good word on-line. We’re a small show, and owe a big debt of gratitude to word-of-mouth. Here’s a sampling of the positive show feedback, from the Twitter. Show is playing Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights, 8:00 PM at Harmony House Theatre in Hunter River. Get your tickets by calling the box office at 902-964-2255, or...

Working to put on an independent show like “The Island Summer Review 2” pulls in all different directions. It’s most important to write a new, original show, and then Mark and I rehearsed things on-stage so all feels energetic. After that, there’s a round of writing news releases, making brochures and posters, and arranging for the actual advertising we can afford (thanks to The Guardian for the partnership...

Join me and Mark Haines at Milton Community Hall, on Friday March 7th, to kick back at this last blast of Island winter. Come on out to this newly-renovated classic Island hall, just 10 minutes outside Charlottetown. The show starts at 7:30 and $10 tickets can be reserved by calling the Miltonvale Park Community Council Office at 368-3090 or emailing [email protected]. Going fast, so reserve in advance to make sure. Hope to see...

Are you prepared for the return of the polar vortex in Canada? What to wear? When to stop layering? Listen to this helpful call-in show, hosted by Patrick Ledwell, to glean all the tips you need for winter...

1. Patrick Ledwell and Mark Haines met when they both featured in the hit show Come-All-Ye at the Charlottetown Festival. Patrick’s wife needed the car show nights, and so he asked Mark for drives home, 6 nights a week. So like many promising things, the plot for The Island Summer Review was hatched in a van. 2. Patrick has been featured 5 times on the popular CBC Radio show “The Debaters.” He won over an audience in...