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Continue reading →: Personal, political & passionate – Frida & Diego exhibit @ the AGO
Was very happy to finally get out to see the Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) yesterday with my pal Kira Callahan. It was a beautiful fall Sunday afternoon and as the bold autumn colours waned outdoors, equally bold and vibrant…
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Continue reading →: Revelation & redemption – The Drowning Girls
When we enter the theatre, the three women are already onstage, splayed out in the semi-darkness in the three bathtubs. Drowned. The bathtubs emerge from jagged-toothed holes in the ground, yawned forth like coffins – each with a blank foot stone facing downstage. Vines snake around the shower plumbing above…
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Continue reading →: Blog roll & site page housekeeping
Hey all – you may have noticed that the list of organizations on the Home page blog roll has gotten quite a bit shorter. It has. But fear not, dear readers. I’m still lovin’ these local Toronto theatres and musicians/music acts – and those folks can be found, along with…
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Continue reading →: The Drowning Girls – production pics are up!
Hey all – Check out the gorgeous production stills for The Drowning Girls by photographer Dahlia Katz. IMPORTANT REMINDER: Due to a family emergency with one of the cast members, opening night for The Drowning Girls has been moved to Saturday, November 17. If you booked tickets for Friday, November…
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Continue reading →: The Drowning Girls – OPENING NIGHT MOVED to SAT, NOV 17
Important theatre-related alert regarding a date change for the opening night of Alumnae Theatre Company’s production of The Drowning Girls. Message from the producer: Due to a family emergency with one of the cast members, it is unfortunately necessary to postpone the opening of “The Drowning Girls” by one day. There…
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Continue reading →: Some theatre shouts – ongoing & upcoming shows
Hey all – lots of theatre happening in Toronto right now. Here is a selection of some school, community and indie productions on right now or coming soon: George Brown Theatre School’s production of Saturday Sunday Monday (by Eduardo De Filipo with English adaptation by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall,…
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Continue reading →: Girl power rawkin out @ Supertash “Before The World Ends” CD launch
What would you do if the world was gonna end on December 21, 2012? Rawk out, of course! Maybe some other things too, but this is a PG kinda blog, so I’ll leave that up to all y’all. The countdown for Supertash’s Before The World Ends CD launch ended last…
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Continue reading →: A moving, lyrical & thoughtful remembrance – Until Our Paths Cross Again
The intimate performance space at Dancemakers has a shiny black stage floor – like glass, like dark water. Up centre is a large boulder, to its right an olive tree and down left is a medium-sized boulder, the blue glass stones at its base telling us that there is water…
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Continue reading →: “A Woman of No Importance” – the first read
Originally posted on The Alumnae Theatre Company's Blog: Last night (Nov 6), Alumnae Theatre’s Main Stage, just vacated by the Toronto Irish Players, was crammed with actors crowded around tables set up in a square. I think there were 13, but may have lost count. It was the first read-through…
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Continue reading →: Counting down to Supertash “Before The World Ends” CD launch – Sun, Nov 11
Looking for something to do in Toronto this Sunday night? Well search no more, dear readers. Supertash (aka Tash Jolly) will be launching her “Before The World Ends” CD this Sunday, November 11 – 7 p.m. at the Gladstone Hotel. Hosted by Kat Leonard, with guests Arlene Paculan, Meghan Morrison…







