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Continue reading →: Preview: Survival, resilience & resistance in the powerful, raw, timely Four SistersBea Pizano & Company. Production design by Kaitlin Hickey in collaboration with Susanna Fournier. Wardrobe and props design by Patrick Peachey Higdon. Video design by Steph Raposo. Photo by Bernie Fournier. Four Sisters is the final installment of Susanna Fournier’s Empire trilogy; produced by Paradigm Productions and commissioned by Luminato, and running this…
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Continue reading →: Remembering Nonnie GriffinPhoto from Bluffs Monitor. Nonnie Griffin and I became mutual fans, from opposite sides of the stage, while working on two different productions at Alumnae Theatre in 2008: she as the formidable Irish matriarch in Lucy Brennan’s Daughter of the House and I as the compassionate, no-nonsense oncology nurse…
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Continue reading →: June (pseudo) hiatusHey all—It’s that time of year again! A many of you probably already know, every June the cowbell blog and I take a month off for a bit of R&R before some big fun, busy times at Toronto Fringe. This year—with the exception of a few shows I’ve already committed…
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Continue reading →: Angela Saini brings her sweet, soulful sound to Hope on the Stereo celebration at Cameron House residency
I had the pleasure of attending the final performance of Angela Saini’s May residency at The Cameron House last night, which included a selection of tunes from across albums—with a special nod of celebration to her new record Hope on the Stereo—along with a few choice covers (I especially enjoyed Saini’s…
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Continue reading →: Ancestors calling on a hero’s journey through fear to true self in the engaging, powerful 11:11Samson Bonkeabantu Brown. Set design by d’bi.young anitafrika. Costume design by Samson Bonkeabantu Brown. Lighting design by André du Toit. Photo by Brett Haynes. A.V.O. Collective brings the world premiere of its engaging, powerful production of 11:11, presented as part of Why Not Theatre’s RISER Project 2019, to the Theatre…
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Continue reading →: Secrets revealed & dreams denied in the ferociously funny, deeply poignant August: Osage CountyThe ensemble. Set design by Camellia Koo. Costume design by Gillian Gallow. Lighting design by Davida Tkach. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann. Life is very long.—T.S. Eliot Soulpepper presents a ferociously funny, deeply poignant production of Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County, running now at the Young Centre. Directed by Jackie Maxwell,…
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Continue reading →: Power, politics & poison in the wickedly funny, sexy, irreverent Bella DonnaFrançoise Balthazar, Paul Hopkins & Chelsea Russell. Photo by Tanja-Tiziana. The Bella Donna Artists Collective opened a new, revised production of David Copelin’s Bella Donna, directed by Anita La Selva, to a sold out house at the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace last night. Examining the political intrigue during the latter part of Lucrezia…
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Continue reading →: A family slogs through the fallout of mental illness & tragedy in the brutally honest, wry-witted And So It GoesLeft: Deborah Drakeford & Scott McCulloch. Right: Tyshia Drake & Dan Willmott. Set & costume design by Kelly Wolf. Scenic art by Ksenia Ivanova. Lighting design by Chin Palipane. Photos by John Gundy. Kyanite Theatre presents George F. Walker’s And So It Goes, directed by Walker, assisted by Martha…
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Continue reading →: Gender power dynamics get a table flip in the provocative, timely Beautiful ManForeground: Ashley Botting, Mayko Nguyen & Sofía Rodríguez. Background: Jess LaVercombe. Set design by Gillian Gallow. Costume design by Ming Wong. Lighting design by Jason Hand. Photo by Joseph Michael Photography. Factory Theatre closes its 2018-19 season with Erin Shields’ Beautiful Man. Directed by long-time Shields collaborator Andrea Donaldson…
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Continue reading →: A journey into the light & dark of self-discovery in the bittersweet, courageous Welcome to my UnderworldClockwise, from top left: Grace Thompson, Nikoletta Erdelyi, Carolyn Hetherington, Samson Brown, Radha S. Menon, Maddie Bautista & Bilal Baig. Set design by Brett Haynes. Lighting design by Sharmylae Taffe-Fletcher. Photo by Sophia Thompson-Campbell. RARE Theatre Company, in partnership with Soulpepper, presents the world premiere of Welcome to my…
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