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Continue reading →: cowbell blog: Changes to Toronto Fringe coverageHi all. Have some news before coming out my annual June hiatus next week—and before we head out for the long weekend. As many of you know, life with more cowbell is a one-person, unpaid, part-time passion project; this means I support myself with a day job. My previous full-time…
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Continue reading →: cowbell blog on June hiatusIt’s June already—and that means it’s time for the cowbell blog’s first annual hiatus of the year (the second is 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 lovely month. See y’all in July.
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Continue reading →: The implications of a kiss: When Raymond met Mimi in a hilarious, moving, cerebral Blind DateBack by popular demand from its 2015-16 season, Tarragon Theatre wraps its 2016-17 season with Spontaneous Theatre’s production of Blind Date, created by Rebecca Northan. This run of the improv date night hit features Northan, Christy Bruce and Tess Degenstein as rotating Mimis, and Bruce Horak as various other characters.…
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Continue reading →: Creatures of myth & memory in the playful, pointed, evocative Cryptids: Prose-Poetry from Creatures of MemoryCover art from Cryptids: Prose-Poetry from Creatures of Memory by Dee Sparling Dee Sparling is a local Toronto poet/spoken word artist and singer. We’ve been friends for about 16 years, and folks who frequented Lizzie Violet’s Cabaret Noir, either at Q Space or The Central, will recognize Sparling, who performed…
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Continue reading →: Family legacy, identity & repressed anger released in the sharply funny, biting Bad JewsRebecca Applebaum, Kristopher Turner & Daniel Krantz in Bad Jews—photo by Dahlia Katz We’re all invited to crash at Jonah and Liam’s as we pay our last respects to their grandfather in the Koffler Centre of the Arts’ production of Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews, directed by Michèle Lonsdale-Smith. Bad Jews…
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Continue reading →: Grit, determination & a love affair with the speed bag in the funny, moving, inspiring NewsgirlSavoy Howe in Newsgirl—photo by Dahlia Katz Tracey Erin Smith and Soulo Theatre celebrated the 5th anniversary of the Soulo Theatre Festival, opening this year’s fest with an Opening Night Gala presentation of Savoy Howe’s Newsgirl. With direction and dramatury by Soulo Theatre A.D. Smith, Newsgirl ran for one night…
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Continue reading →: Identity, community & calling shenanigans on BS in the raw, real, nostalgic Situational AnarchyGraham Isador in Situational Anarchy Pressgang Theatre joins forces with Pandemic Theatre to present Graham Isador’s one-man work of creative non-fiction Situational Anarchy, direction/dramaturgy by Tom Arthur Davis and Jivesh Parasram, and opening last night at Stop Drop N Roll. Autobiographical, with an altered timeline and an amalgamation of…
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Continue reading →: Power, plots & passion in the compelling, intimate & deftly performed CaesarKevin Kashani as Marc Antony and Melanie Leon as Julius Caesar in Caesar—photo art by Joseph Hammond Wolf Manor Theatre Collective continues its 2016-17 season of startling, up close and personal theatre with its production of William Shakespeare’s Caesar, directed by Dylan Brenton and opening last night to a…
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Continue reading →: The struggle for normalcy in the wake of a horrific past in the haunting, disturbing Strangers, BabiesJeff Lillico & Niki Landau in Strangers, Babies—photo by Neil Silcox Theatre PANIK presents its immersive production of Linda McLean’s Strangers, Babies, directed by Paul Lampert, assisted by Sadie Epstein-Fine, this past week. A Canadian premiere, the show opened this past week at Artscape Sandbox. As we enter the space,…
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Continue reading →: The “wangled teb” of perception in the darkly funny, thoughtful, poignant The Play About the BabyJudith Cockman, Will King, Nora Smith & Scott McCulloch in The Play About the Baby If you have no wounds, how can you know you’re alive? Seven Siblings Theatre opened their production of Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby, directed by company co-founder Erika Downie, upstairs at The Rhino…
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