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Continue reading →: Poetry 500 years in the making in Soulpepper’s exquisite, haunting, wondrous OrlandoSet & lighting design by Lorenzo Savoini. Costume design by Gillian Gallow. Photo by Aleksander Antonijevic. Soulpepper Theatre brings Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to the stage with an exquisite Canadian premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s stage adaptation of the magical time-travelling, gender-fluid tale, directed by Katrina Darychuck. Starting off in Elizabethan…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Hilarity ensues with farce-inspired improv shenanigans in Entrances and ExitsBack: Ghazal Azarbad, Liz Johnston, Dylan Evans & Connor Low. Front: Conor Bradbury, Nigel Downer & Ruth Goodwin. Photo by Connor Low. The Howland Company joins forces with Bad Dog Theatre for a Toronto Fringe run of improvised theatre, creating a new show every night inspired by traditional farces…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Trial by browser history in the razor sharp, darkly funny FeatherweightKat Letwin, Michael Musi & Amanda Cordner. Photo by John Gundy. Theatre Brouhaha is back at Toronto Fringe with with Tom McGee’s razor sharp, darkly funny look at judgement for the afterlife, Featherweight—inspired by Egyptian mythology and Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What The Internet Can…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Party like a sumo wrestler with Robin F*cking Black in the gutsy, inspirational Enjoy the HostilitiesRobin Black. Photo by John Laszlo Bruce. Pressgang Theatre takes us on a wild, wisdom-filled storytelling ride with its Toronto Fringe production of Enjoy the Hostilities, written by Robin Black and Graham Isador, directed by Isador and performed by Black—running now at The Bovine. Part personal journey, part edgy…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Art, longing & acceptance in the poetic, heart-wrenching, gender-bending The Bird KillerClockwise, from bottom left: Emerjade Simms, Tymika Tafari, Subhash Santosh, Mo Zeighami, Evan Mackenzie & Mike Ricci. Photo by Patrick J. Horan. LET ME IN presents Justine Christensen’s poetic, heart-wrenching modern-day, gender-bending adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull with its Toronto Fringe production of The Bird Killer, directed by…
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Continue reading →: Finding equilibrium amidst the pain & joy in the candid, vulnerable, sharply funny PeriscopeMegan Phillips. Photos by Corey Palmer. Vancouver-based writer/performer Megan Phillips was in town at Bad Dog Theatre last night for a one-night-only performance of her autobiographical piece Periscope—the up and down journey of finding equilibrium in her life when personal day-to-day miracles stopped coming—directed by Jeff Leard, with dramaturgy…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Burlesque macabredy delights in the erotic queer vampire tale CarmillaHeath V. Salazar & Stella Kulagowski. Photo by Sly Feiticeira. Pointed Cap Playhouse takes Toronto Fringe audiences to a Victorian world of frightening yet titillating portents and strange, alluring creatures in Adam Steel’s burlesque adaptation of Carmilla; running at The Painted Lady. Co-created by Sly Feiticeira, Stella Kulagowski and…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Art, friendship & astroturf in the quirky, edgy, hilarious The Grass is Greenest at the Houston AstrodomeAdrian Rebucas, Lauren MacKinlay, Anne van Leeuwen, Richard Young & Carson Pinch. Photo by Megan Terris. High Park Productions takes us to The Freedom Factory gallery (22 Dovercourt Road, south of Queen St. East) for a fly-on-the-wall view of the aftermath of an explosive art show opening. The Toronto…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Turning up the heat in a complex power struggle in the gripping, darkly funny AnywhereCass Van Wyck & Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster. Costumes by Lindsay Dagger Junkin. Photo by Emily Dix. One Four One Collective and The Spadina Avenue Gang take us to the middle of a tension-filled stand-off between a suburban Airbnb host and guest with Michael Ross Albert’s gripping, darkly funny Anywhere,…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Big wacky improv fun in ancient Trannah with Sex T-Rex in D&D Live!Sean Tabares, David Hadley, Thomas Sharpe & Anonymous. Photo by Nicolas Melo. Sex T-Rex is back at Toronto Fringe, this time with some Dungeons & Dragons-inspired improv fun with D&D Live! at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse. Our imperious Dungeon Master invites you to his great aunt’s rec room…
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