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Continue reading →: Toronto Paint Slam @ Fran Hill Gallery
But wait, there’s more! Ottawa pal Brenda Sharpe just alerted me to the upcoming 3rd annual Toronto Paint Slam at the Fran Hill Gallery (285 Rushton Rd., Toronto), opening on July 14 and running into August – and featuring a whole lotta artists, including her husband Blair Sharpe. Check out…
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Continue reading →: Shinsedai Cinema Festival opens tomorrow!
Taking a brief break away from Toronto Fringe to give a shout out to the upcoming Shinsedai Cinema Festival of up-and-coming indie Japanese filmmakers and their work, which opens tomorrow (July 12) and runs until July 15 at the Revue Cinema (400 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto). I’ll be heading over on…
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Continue reading →: Mind-bending the bad things – Help Yourself
Everybody lies and everybody cheats. Some of these actions are along the more benign points on the scale of good and bad as many of us understand it – and some of us use sliding scales to separate the white lies from the bold-faced ones, the minor incidents of cheating…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe – up this week
Hey kids – Realized my sleep-addled brain left a couple of things out in yesterday’s posts: During the dinner date scene in One Night, Angela Brown and Nick Stojanovic did an amazing job of dealing with a set malfunction when the table they were eating at collapsed! Nice improving out…
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Continue reading →: Flawed relationships & breast cancer in funny sweet romcom – Mum & the Big C
Tonight’s Fringe adventure took Lizzie and I to the Randolph Theatre, where we bumped into Philip and Darren from The Judy Monologues – like us, there to see Lynne Kamm’s Mum and the Big C. Written and directed by Kamm, this is the story of Ripley (Elvira Kurt), a single…
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Continue reading →: Sweet & hilarious romcom-flavoured journey – One Night
Fringe adventures began this afternoon at the George Ignatieff Theatre (GIT) when I met up with pals Kat, Lizzie, Janis, Laurie and playwright Brandon Pitts to see One Night – co-written by Pitts and actor Angela Brown. To say that One Night is just a romcom would be missing the…
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Continue reading →: Big mind-bending absurd fun – Then He Wakes Up
Did some late night Fringing this evening and caught Twisted Chaos Productions’ performance of Then He Wakes Up at the Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM) Mainspace. Written by Matthew Sarookanian (who also acts in the piece) and directed by Joanne Williams, Then He Wakes Up is a mind-bending, absurd good time…
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Continue reading →: A brave & beautiful hero’s journey – snug harbor
I fell in love with Tracey Erin Smith’s work when I saw her one-woman show The Burning Bush, and the sequel Two in the Bush, at Toronto Fringe several years ago, and had the pleasure of participating in one of her weekend-long solo show workshop intensives. So it was very…
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Continue reading →: Charming & poignant musical – Life in the Raw
While working with her at Alumnae Theatre, I remember Barbara Larose talking about family stories and memories, passed along via word-of-mouth by aunts and her mother, and how it would make a great play. So it was wonderful to see that vision come to life when Larose collaborated with actor/composer…
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Continue reading →: The Judy Monologues – simply fabulous!
While Judy Garland was not my first love at the movies (that distinction goes to Ms. Julie Andrews), she certainly figured prominently in my love of movies and music. The Wizard of Oz and Meet Me in St. Louis were early favourites – then A Star Is Born. From “Over…
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