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Continue reading →: Profound longing & desperate hope in the beautifully melancholy, immersively designed Three SistersLeft, clockwise from top: Dana Puddicombe, Arinea Hermans & Christina Fox; Right, from top: Nikolas Nikita & Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski—photo by Joseph Hammond With several highly successful one-off productions under its belt, Wolf Manor Theatre Collective continues its inaugural 2017 season with its second production, Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, directed by…
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Continue reading →: Preview: Brilliant, fragile minds at work in the tender, sharply funny ProofPhoto by Bruce Peters: Dan Willmott, Karen Slater & Chris Peterson New kid on the block Theatre UnBlocked is off to a great start, mounting its inaugural production, David Auburn’s Proof, directed by Carl Jackson, to a packed preview house at Red Sandcastle Theatre last night. The elegant beauty of…
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Continue reading →: New Ideas Festival: Connection, reflection & living with illness in thoughtful, funny Week One program
Alumnae Theatre Company opened the 29th New Ideas Festival (NIF) with a strong Week One program in its Studio space last night. The annual juried festival includes three weeks of short new plays and full-length readings, including four plays and one reading each week. Call by Rosemary Doyle, directed by…
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Continue reading →: Interview: Lizzie VioletLizzie Violet—photo by Anna Lozyk Romeo Happy International Women’s Day! Today’s post is an interview with an incredibly talented, hard-working, gutsy and generous woman in the Toronto arts scene. Lizzie Violet is a writer, spoken word artist and horror aficionado—that “dark little girl with the crooked grin” who took her…
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Continue reading →: Getting to the truth, & touching on the why, about violence against women in the thought-provoking, chilling SMYTH / WILLIAMSDeborah Drakeford, Lynette Gillis & Kim Nelson in SMYTH / WILLIAMS—photo by Yuri Dojc War and violence against women not only have similar social, cultural, and religious supports, they are mutually reinforcing. These supports allow societies to tolerate conditions in which a third of women and girls can be treated…
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Continue reading →: Shades of red & blue in the tapestry of interwoven lives in the beautiful, theatrical Of Human BondagePhoto by Cylla von Tiedemann: Gregory Prest & Michelle Monteith in Of Human Bondage It’s all in how a man carries himself. Soulpepper opened its remount of Vern Thiessen’s stage adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage at the Young Centre on Thursday. Directed by Soulpepper A.D. Albert…
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Continue reading →: Notorious, tough & clever—the lives of women gangsters in the compelling, edgy The Elephant GirlsMargo MacDonald as Maggie Hale in The Elephant Girls—photo by Andrew Alexander Red Sandcastle Theatre launched its second Wilde Festival production, partnering with Parry Riposte Productions to mount Margo MacDonald’s The Elephant Girls, directed by Mary Ellis. The Elephant Girls opened at Red Sandcastle’s storefront space at Queen St. East…
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Continue reading →: Blood & fire as women navigate a beautiful, untamed new world in the bold, darkly funny Deceitful Above All ThingsGenevieve Adam & John Fitzgerald Jay: photo by John Gundy The show must go on. Storefront Theatre’s partnership with the Favour the Brave Collective to present Genevieve Adam’s SummerWorks 2015 hit Deceitful Above All Things shifted venues to the Factory Theatre Studio after Storefront’s space closed earlier this year. As…
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Continue reading →: Melanie Peterson’s “Sunshine” a breath of TLC for a broken heartPhoto by Bri-Anne Myers: Melanie Peterson Wistful, but hopeful—and perfectly illustrating her vibe as “Mary Poppins with a broken heart”—Melanie Peterson’s latest single “Sunshine” is a breath of TLC for a broken heart. And even more poignant is the fact that it’s being addressed to an ex in need of…
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Continue reading →: Betrayal & ruin to forgiveness & reunion, with witty, rollicking good times in As You Like ItPhoto by Daniela Mason: George Brown Theatre School class of 2017 The George Brown Theatre School class of 2017 takes us back to a time of rum-running gangsters in their production of As You Like It (directed by Geoffrey Pounsett), currently running in rep with A Midsummer Night’s Dream (directed…
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