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Continue reading →: Sin of the father in the deeply moving, spiritual, revelatory acquiesce
Factory Theatre joins forces with fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company to open Factory’s 2016-17 season of diverse voices speaking to the Canadian experience with David Yee’s acquiesce in the Factory Theatre Mainspace, directed by Factory Theatre A.D. Nina Lee Aquino. Writer Sin Hwang (David Yee) struggles with moving beyond the…
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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: Week of Nov 14, 2016
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.—Jack Layton
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Continue reading →: An exclusive murder mystery weekend gets real in the darkly funny, surprising A Party to Murder
You are cordially invited to an exclusive murder mystery weekend this Halloween at a secluded upscale cottage at a secret location. The Village Players are currently running A Party to Murder, by Douglas E. Hughes and Marcia Kash, directed by Rob Woodcock, at their home the Village Playhouse (Bloor St.…
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Continue reading →: Love, revenge & calculated cruelty in the sexy, darkly funny & tragic Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Amicus Productions opened its 2016-17 season with Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, directed by Victoria Shepherd, at the Todmorden Mills Papermill Theatre last night. An edgy, erotic, sometimes chilling story of manipulation, desire and social gamesmanship, Amicus’s production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses plays out on a traditional proscenium stage, complete…
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Continue reading →: A trip through time with family, country & loss of innocence in the charming, poignant Cavalcade
George Brown Theatre opened its 2016-17 season last night at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts (located in Toronto’s Distillery District) with Nöel Coward’s Cavalcade, directed by A.D. James Simon, with musical direction by J. Rigzin Tute and choreography by Robert McCollum. Cavalcade follows the lives of two intertwined…
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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: Week of Nov 7, 2016
The most important questions for anybody thinking of running for president are not “Will you run and can you win?” There is, “What is your vision for America? And can you lead us there?”—Hillary Clinton
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Continue reading →: Portents & prophecy as science meets spirit (or does it?) in compelling The Queen’s Conjuror
Circlesnake Productions opened its production of Joshua Browne and Alec Toller’s The Queen’s Conjuror in The Attic Arts Hub (1402 Queen St. E., Toronto) on Thursday, directed by Toller. I caught the show last night. A new star has recently appeared in the sky and Queen Elizabeth I (Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah)…







