Leonard Cohen: Leonard Cohen

Prairie Theatre Exchange Dept: HALLELUJAH... Prairie Theatre Exchange has included in its 2013-14 season a musical featuring the songs of legendary Canadian troubadour Leonard Cohen, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The 78-year-old Cohen has never been more popular in his long and storied career. His current Old Ideas World Tour has earned rapturous reviews and is slated to return to Winnipeg April 26 at the MTS Centre. His timeless songbook and iconic public life have attracted numerous theatre adaptors who have fashioned stage revues. One is a dance/music blend called Dance Me to the End of Love by Denmark's Granhoj Dans Company, which opened this week at the Centaur Theatre in Cohen's hometown of Montreal and Chelsea Hotel The Songs of Leonard Cohen, debuted in Vancouver last year and is the centrepiece of PTE five-show playlist for the 2013-14 season. Chelsea Hotel -- The Songs of Leonard Cohen is the centrepiece of PTE's five-show playlist that also includes the latest works of two big names of Canadian theatre, Daniel MacIvor and Joan Macleod. Trish Cooper, a member of the PTE Playwrights Unit, will also premiere her first mainstage production, Social Studies, next November. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.