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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Resilience against all odds in the defiant, poignant, hopeful The Pansy Craze: A New MusicalIn a time when “transgender” wasn’t a word and homosexuality was illegal, a trans woman refuses to be invisible and shines on the vaudeville stage in Next Stop Productions’ The Pansy Craze. With book, music and lyrics by Avery Jean Brennan, and directed by Dustin George, with music direction by…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Calling out manipulative sales in the quirky, edgy, razor sharp Everyone Wants A T-Shirt!Brittany Miranda, John Wamsley, Charlin McIsaac & Madeleine Brown. Photo by Graham Isador. Has a slogan or statement on a product ever made you want to change your life? Prairie Fire, Please explores the impact of—and calls bullshit on—corporate manipulation of our heart strings in Madeleine Brown’s Everyone Wants…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: The cult of selfism & celebrity in the sharply hilarious, satirical, eerie Wagon PlayBrendan Kinnon, Jonathan Walls, Katherine Cappellacci, Emma Banigan, Alexis Gontan, Lindsey Middleton & Brandon Gillespie. Photo by Owen Fawcett. Are you living your truth? Amber Moon and her followers invite you to join them for The Way’s special Resetting Ceremony in Theatre By Committee’s production of Ben Hayward’s Wagon…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: A unique, sensual, fierce contemporary theatre journey out on the water in FloodedTop to bottom: Nicole Wilson, Hayden Finkelshtain, Melanie Leon & Duncan Rowe. Photo by Ara Glenn-Johanson. NorthAmerica took us on a unique theatrical journey with its Toronto Fringe production of Flooded, conceived and directed by Ara Glenn-Johanson. Created in collaboration with the ensemble, Flooded takes you out into Toronto…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: An intersectional heart-to-heart on the state of manhood in the candid, funny, brave We The MenSunday Muse, Mercy Cherian, Rachel Brophy & Sundance Nagrial. Photo by Dahlia Katz. Sam’s having the guys over at his cottage—and we’re all invited! The back room stage of the Cadillac Lounge is transformed into the living room of Sam’s cottage as Soulo Theatre takes us behind the scenes of a…
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Continue reading →: The cowbell blog’s June hiatusCan’t believe it’s the last day of May already! That means tomorrow marks the first day of the cowbell blog’s annual June hiatus (there’s also one in December). I’ll still be seeing some shows, and shouting stuff out on social media; just not covering them on the blog. Have a…
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Continue reading →: A journey into the wasteland of a serial killer’s mind & the possibility of forgiveness in Seven Siblings’ chilling, heartbreaking FrozenScott McCulloch, Nancy McAlear & Madryn McCabe. Is it possible to forgive a man who has murdered a child? The stuff of every parent’s nightmare becomes an opportunity for reconciliation and forgiveness as a forensic psychologist offers her thesis on the minds serial killers in Seven Siblings Theatre’s compelling,…
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Continue reading →: Shaken faith & lost innocence in Soulpepper’s haunting yet hopeful Innocence Lost: A Play about Steven TruscottBerkley Silverman & Dan Mousseau. Set design by Camellia Koo. Costume design by Sue LePage. Lighting design by Bonnie Beecher. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann. A town divided in the aftershock of the tragic rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl; and subsequent adult trial and conviction of a 14-year-old…
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Continue reading →: Culture, identity & the meaning of the blues in Soulpepper’s powerful, entertaining Ma Rainey’s Black BottomTop: Alex Poch-Goldin. Bottom: Marcel Stewart, Diego Matamoros, Beau Dixon, Neville Edwards & Alana Bridgewater. Set & lighting design by Ken MacKenzie. Costume design by Alexandra Lord. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann. Soulpepper takes us to 1920s Chicago, where the race, power and creative exploitation collide in a lively, tension-filled…
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Continue reading →: Passion, reason & Canada’s tumultuous Camelot couple in timeshare productions’ stellar Maggie & PierreKaitlyn Riordan. Set and costume design by Jung-Hye Kim. Lighting design by Oz Weaver. Photo by Stephen Wild. He pirouetted with taut panache. She spun with child-like joy. And we fell in love with them both. timeshare productions presents Maggie & Pierre, by Linda Griffiths with Paul Thompson, in the…
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