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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Confronting white supremacy in the searing, timely, tension-filled White HeatTim Walker. Photo by Graham Isador. Pressgang Theatre presents a workshop production of Graham Isador’s White Heat. Based on real events, it takes us into the incendiary, tension-filled conflict between an alt-right podcaster and a digital media reporter in a searing, timely look at the dangerous consequences of white supremacist…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Reaching back through time & memory in search of home in the endearing, poignant hiraethMandy E. MacLean. Lighting design by Logan Raju Cracknell. Photo by Matt Carter. The hiraeth collective’s hiraeth, created and performed by Mandy E. MacLean, and directed for this SummerWorks production by Leah Holder, takes the audience on an intimate solo show personal history tour of teenage memories, with a…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: A bold, revolutionary experiment in housing & education implodes in the spirited, insightful RochdaleRochdale ensemble. Costumes by Tiana Kralj. GovCon and Theatre@York take us to the turbulent, rebellious times of social change and sky-high dreams in 1969 Toronto as a group of counterculture university students undertake a bold and ambitious new housing and education cooperative model in Rochdale. Written by David Yee; directed…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Running away to home in the fierce, funny, inspiring, socially aware The Breath BetweenFio Yang. Photo by Saba Akhtar. The AMY Project returns to SummerWorks, this year with a journey of belonging and identity as a group of BIPOC, 2LGBTQ women and non-binary youth living in a world ravaged by climate change venture out in search of a place where they can…
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Continue reading →: All’s Well That Ends Well adaptation a delightfully dark comedic romp with a twistChristopher Mott, Chanakya Mukherjee & Liz Der. Photo by Stevie Baker. Dauntless City Theatre is back at Berczy Park (aka the dog fountain park across from the St. Lawrence Centre) with a delightful immersive, site-specific adaptation of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well. Adapted and directed by Scott Emerson…
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Continue reading →: Rockin’ good fun for all ages in the delightfully whimsical, magical A (Musical) Midsummer Night’s DreamAhmed Moneka as Puck. Production design by Julia Kim. Photo by Dahlia Katz. Driftwood Theatre Group is back this summer, celebrating its 25th season with a tour of its outdoor Shakespearean awesomeness. This year, it’s a delightfully whimsical, silly, rockin’ Bard’s Bus Tour production of A (musical) Midsummer Night’s Dream…
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Continue reading →: Love & hate, abandonment & connection in the searing, electric Fool for LoveCara Gee & Eion Bailey. Set design by Lorenzo Savoini. Costume design by Shannon Lea Doyle. Lighting design by Simon Rossiter. Photo by Dahlia Katz. Soulpepper Theatre presents a searing, electric production of Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love, directed by Frank Cox-O’Connell and running at the Young Centre. The…
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Continue reading →: Dancing in the key of life in Kaeja d’Dance’s joyful, moving, dynamic Porch View Dances 2019PORCH 2: Lifesongs (Her Mixtape’s a Masterpiece), choreographed by Shannon Litzenberger. Kirsten Boer, Marion Oliver, Lori Pacan, Evelyn Sham and Myriam Zitouni. Photo by Cate McKim. Kaeja d’Dance opened its 8th annual Porch View Dances, presented in and around Seaton Village in the Annex neighbourhood of Toronto (starting at 92…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: The devastating ripples of the Montreal massacre in the sensitive, intimate, heartbreaking The December Man (L’homme de Décembre)Stephen Flett, Jonas Trottier & Kris Langille. Photo by Steven Nederveen. Theatre@Eastminster closed its sensitive, intimate and heartbreaking production of Colleen Murphy’s The December Man (L’homme de Décembre), directed by Jennifer C.D. Thomson, yesterday afternoon at Eastminster United Church. As the narrative turns back time, we witness the devastating impact…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Twelfth Night from Malvolio’s perspective in the riveting, visceral and cerebral I, MalvolioJustin Otto. Photo by John Gundy. impel theatre gives us Malvolio’s perspective of the events from Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night in Tim Crouch’s riveting, visceral, cerebral I, Malvolio, directed by Kendra Jones, assisted by clown consultant Calvin Peterson. I, Malvolio had its closing performance at the Smart Cookie Club at Artscape…
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