WYRD Productions

From the creators of Asolo Rep's June 2017 hit production of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", JUNGLE BOOK will have its world premiere at Asolo Rep in June 2018. It will be presented by Kidoons and in association with The 20K Collective, produced by Jeff Lord, co-created and co-directed by Craig Francis and Rick Miller.
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BOOM's ONLY GTA show in 2016! Friday, Sept 16 at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga.
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"For almost two hours, Miller powers through 25 years and some hundred voices… All the while he perfectly calibrates his performance with a truly dazzling cascade of imagery... A fascinating, kaleidoscopic overview of an era... I was mesmerized!" (Jim Burke, Montreal Gazette)
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"Simply STUNNING!...Theatric creativity of the highest magnitude!" The first reviews are in for BOOM's 5 week run in Vancouver, at PuSh/Arts Club (Granville Island stage), to Feb 13 2016.
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BOOM kicks off 2016 with a 5-week run at PuSh/Arts Club (Granville Island stage), Jan 14-Feb 13 2016. After 2015 runs in Toronto, London, Victoria, Edmonton, Whitehorse, Halifax and Markham, the Kidoons/WYRD multimedia show BOOM heads back to the West coast.
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After big runs in Victoria and Edmonton (with a whip through Whitehorse), the Kidoons/WYRD multimedia show BOOM heads to the other Canadian coast. Previews and reviews below.
Chronicle Herald review
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Rick Miller and the Kidoons/WYRD team launch Citadel Theatre's 50th anniversary to stellar reviews.
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Kidoons and WYRD Productions' hit show BOOM kicks off its big 2015-16 Canadian tour with a 3-week run at The Belfry Theatre in Victoria, BC. This is Rick Miller's first appearance here since Bigger Than Jesus played in 2007.
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"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is extraordinary... a fantastical fusion of low-tech puppetry and high-tech projections! Panamania, is off to a gold medal start! Don't let this ship sail without climbing aboard!" (Drew Rowsome theatre blog)
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5 shows only! at DANIELS SPECTRUM In Regent Park. Limited seating, so book your tickets now!
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BOOM, the most popular new show in Canada, premiered in French at Le Carrefour International de Théâtre, Quebec City's premiere arts festival. May 28-30 2015. Read the stellar reviews:
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A little video I made in case Mr. Burns needs a new voice. If you like it, please share it!
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Don't miss Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea's World Premiere, July 11-15 2015 at Daniels Spectrum in Toronto. 5 shows only! Limited seating, so book your tickets now!
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Our BOOM national tour continues with a 3-week mainstage run at The Grand Theatre in London, ON, where Rick has previously played MacHomer and Bigger Than Jesus. Preview article in London Community News.
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Don’t miss Rick's new show BOOM premiering at the Panasonic Theatre in Toronto Jan 15th. The explosive new show that captures the defining moments of the baby-boom generation. One man, 25 years, a 100 of the world’s most influential figures.
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After two weeks of intensive work at Robert Lepage's La Caserne in Quebec City, The 20K Collective presented Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (20K) on Dec 13th 2014 to an invited audience of friends and colleagues.
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To all MacHomer fans: from now until Dec 17th 2014, we're happy to throw in Rick's CD SONGS (From My Shows) for FREE when you buy a MacHomer DVD. $25 value for only $15!
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After a late night hosting the Glenn Gould Prize at Rideau Hall, Rick flew back to Toronto to host the morning launch of PANAMANIA, the Arts & Culture Program of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games.
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MAC is back! Rick Miller will be performing his one-man extravaganza MacHomer for a special week of sold-out shows in Sweden.
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Rave reviews for MacHomer, presented by Magnus Theatre and starring Jerry Getty.
The Wall-Eye
The Argus
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From Oct 27 to Nov 10th, the BOOM team will gearing up Rick Miller's latest solo multimedia show for its first public performances at the High Performance Rodeo, Calgary's premiere arts festival, from Jan 15-19 2014 (co-presented by Theatre Calgary).
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Do your students hate Shakespeare? Do they hate you for teaching it?  There's help, my friends... Last December, WYRD Productions and KDOONS launched the MacHomer in-school OUTREACH campaign, and it's been a huge success thus far!
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For the first time ever, Rick Miller's MacHomer will be performed by someone other than Rick himself! Magnus Theatre in Thunder Bay (ON) have taken on the task of staging the virtuosic solo "Simpsons do Macbeth" in a production directed by Mario Crudo and starring Jerry Getty. 
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After 17 years and 175 cities, the neverending MacHomer tour is finally wrapping up with 3 shows: Nov 2 (Guelph, ON), Nov 15 (Dallas, TX), and Nov 17 (Napa, ON)!
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After launching the 60th anniversary season of the Stratford Festival, MacHomer moves on to a one-night only stint at the Huntsville Festival of the Arts, Aug 16th
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The Toronto 2015 Pan-Am Games (TO2015) kicks off festivity, culture and celebration with its three-year community countdown on July 10. The free concert will be co-MC'd by Rick Miller and Sandra Lalonde, with special guest host Jian Ghomeshi.
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It's official: the satirical film Mulroney the Opera will finally be aired on television in Canada, where it was meant to be seen in the first place. The Movie Network will present it on the Mfest Channel, June 19th at 9 pm, followed at 10:15 by Sonya di Rienzo's "Behind the Curtain: The Making of Mulroney the Opera"... Check it out!
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Chaque fois que Rick Miller présente VENDU il offre son salaire d'acteur à la campagne internationale BECAUSE I AM A GIRL!
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Rick Miller's MacHomer heads to U at Buffalo as part of its 16th anniversary tour.  Sat, Nov 19th, 8pm.  One show only.  Preview article in Buffalo News.
Next stop:  Nov 29th, Washington, PA.  More info and tix.
Past dates on tour:
Nov 7-8: CalPolyArts in San Luis Obispo.  Nov 10: Bankhead Theatre, Livermore, CA. 
Preview articles in SLO New Times, SLO Tribune.
For more info and tix, visit www.machomer.com
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MacHomer opens Stratford's 60th season!
After its New York premiere, Rick Miller's MacHomer is settling into a month-long run at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Canada's premiere destination for classical theatre. Rick Miller's hilarious mash-up of TV's The Simpsons and Shakespeare's Macbeth opens today, Saturday May 5, and runs to May 26th.  Still some tickets left! Book now…

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Du 12 au 21 avril 2012, le spectacle solo BIGGER THAN JESUS de Rick Miller et Daniel Brooks sera reprise en français à Montréal au Théâtre Denise Pelletier.
Info et billets.
Nouvelles critiques: La Presse, Revue Sequence , Montréal Express (Transcontinental) , Charlebois Post Canada, MonTheatre, Cité Boomers
Critiques en 2010:  Le Journal de Montréal, VOIR, Le Devoir, Le Quatrième.com, monthéâtre.qc.ca, et Radio-Canada et The Gazette (English)
Articles
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At long last, MacHomer and Bigger Than Jesus will premiere in New York City! NYU's gorgeous Skirball Center will host back-to-back weekends of solo performances by Rick Miller.  MAC: March 30-31, BTJ: April 4-7. More info and tickets.
Read the Sunday New York Times preview
BTJ review in Huffington Post
Time-Out NY KIDS, critics pick for Friday
New York Post KIDS pick
Q&A with NYU local

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MacHomer's 2012 Spring Tour has wound its way through Whitehorse (YT), North Bay (ON), La Mirada (CA), Winnipeg (MB).  We're currently in snowy Saskatoon (SK) for a 16-day run with Persephone Theatre.  (March 7-21). Coming up next: Brentwood (NY) and a New York City premiere, and a month-long run as part of the Stratford Festival's 60th anniversary season.  Woohoo!  Persephone ticket info.

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16 years after it made it big on the Canadian Fringe circuit, MacHomer returns to Winnipeg for a 2-week run at Manitoba Theatre for Young People (MTYP).  Besides the slew of school performances, there are a few shows for the general public on Feb 24-25, Mar 2.
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Rick Miller and Daniel Brooks' international hit show BIGGER THAN JESUS was ranked among Toronto's "riveting revivals" of 2011 according to Now Magazine.  Read more.
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Rick Miller's MacHomer returns to New Zealand for a 3-week, 3-city run in Aug 2011.  If you know any Simpsons/Shakespeare fans in Wellington, New Plymouth or Christchurch, let 'em know!
PREVIEWS: Cover Story: Capital Times, Dominion Post (Well.), Taranaki Daily News (N Plym.), The Press (Chch)
REVIEWS:  TheatreReviewNZ (Wellington), TheatreReviewNZ (Chch), The Press (Chch)
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OK, it's out of the bag: MacHomer will be part of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 60th anniversary season.  Woohoo! 
Media release, Montreal Gazette article, Canoe.ca
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Recently finished dates for the MacHomer mini-tour in British Columbia: May 6 in Maple Ridge (The ACT), May 8 in Kamloops (Western Canada Theatre) and May 11-15 in Vancouver (Vanc Playhouse).   16 years, 170 cities and counting... D'OH! 
Vancouver Sun review and preview.
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After a run of BIGGER THAN JESUS in 2010, Neptune Theatre brings Rick Miller back with his one-man mega-hit MACHOMER.  "From the sublime to the ridiculous"?  Depends who you ask...
2 weeks only, from Feb 2-13th, 2011.
"A Razzle dazzle marvel!" (Halifax Chronicle Herald). 
Read the full review in the Chronicle Herald,
"A rich, roaring spectacle of overwhelming entertainment!" (Halifax Magazine)
Read the full review in Halifax Magazine,
and the preview in Metro Halifax.
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NEXT STOP FOR MACHOMER:  Sunday, Nov 14th, 7pm, at the Mayo PAC, Morristown, NJ  (30 miles from NYC!). presented by Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey.   Read the preview articles in The Daily Record, NorthJersey.com, and The Morristown Patch

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Back by popular demand!  Rick Miller's MACHOMER returns for a third run with California Shakespeare Theater, in their newly-renovated Bruns amphitheatre in Orinda, CA.  Dates:  Aug 3-7, 2010.   Read the interview in the San Francisco Chronicle
Watch the NBC TV interview
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Between BIGGER THAN JESUS dates, Rick Miller will be taking his one-man juggernaut MacHomer to Princeton, NJ (McCarter Theatre) on April 30th and to Yountville, CA (Lincoln Theatre) on May 7th 2010. 
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Rick Miller's MacHomer kicks off its 4-city Australian tour with standing ovations, sold-out houses and rave reviews.  First stop: 3 weeks with the prestigious Sydney Theatre Company (Artistic Directors: Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton).
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Rick Miller's MacHomer, a hilarious mash-up of "the Simpsons" and Macbeth, is on a mini-tour across America, with stops in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, Colorado and Illinois.  Next stop:  a one-nighter at the Quick Centre for the Performing Arts in Fairfield, CT on Friday, Oct 23.  NB:  The people making the Simpsons' 20th Anniversary TV special will be filming the performance!  Buy Tickets online.  Read the review from Philadelphia, the preview article for Fairfield...
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MACHOMER's week-long run in Washington DC sells out before opening night.  Woolly Mammoth Theater Company is presenting 7 performances of Rick Miller's mega-hit from Oct 8-12, 2008, and is now selling a handful of standing-room-only tickets.  For box office info, click here.  Also, read the Washington Post review and feature article.  

MACHOMER has been performed in over 130 cities on 4 continents to half a million Simpsons/Shakespeare fans.  What began as a fringe festival mash-up of the Simpsons and Shakespeare has now evolved into a multimedia spectacular (without losing the silliness of the original idea).  If you have never seen Rick's hilarious retelling of Macbeth using 50 Simpsons characters, what are you waiting for???  If you have seen it, you have never seen it like this.  MACHOMER  - call it version 4.0 -  was completely revamped for its 10th anniversary tour in 2006, with new songs, characters, jokes and video images.  Visit the new MacHomer website, unveiled in July.

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After a 9-year absence, MACHOMER finally returns to its birthplace, Montreal!  The Just for Laughs festival, the world's biggest comedy event, will play host to three performances of MacHomer on July 11-12, 2008 at the beautiful Gesu Theatre.   
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