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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: October 24, 2016
The next hundred years are going to be painful as we come to know Chanie Wenjack and thousands like him – as we find out about ourselves, about all of us – but only when we do can we truly call ourselves, “Canada.” —Gord Downie, on the Secret Path project
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Continue reading →: Sex, death & religion: Pondering life experiences & relationships in thoughtful, sassy, intense FAITH
“It was the United Church so it was all like sing these songs, hold hands and get the fuck outta here.” Theatre By Committee opened its production of Ben Hayward’s FAITH in the Chapel at St. Luke’s United Church (353 Sherbourne St., corner of Sherbourne/Carlton, Toronto – Carlton St. entrance).…
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Continue reading →: A boy goes missing & a dark presence reaches out from the forest in lyrical, spooky Tire Swing
Filament Incubator is back again with its 5th play of its #8playsin8months season, this time in association with Epigraph Collective on a production of Curtis te Brinke’s Tire Swing, directed by Sadie Epstein-Fine and running at Kensington Hall (in Kensington Market at 56C Kensington Ave., Toronto). Four pre-teen friends…
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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: Oct 17, 2016
Strong men — men who are truly role models — don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. —Michelle Obama
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Continue reading →: Funny as hell & sh*t gets real in the socially sharp, outrageously funny Late Night
Moses Znaimer and Kat Sandler have teamed up for Zoomer LIVE Theatre’s inaugural production, the debut of Sandler’s Late Night (winner of Toronto Fringe 24-hour playwriting contest), currently running in ZoomerHall – a new space that will serve as a launch pad for intimate, multi-media indie productions. Located in a…
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Continue reading →: A world in a tea room in the powerful, sharply funny, deeply moving “Master Harold” …and the Boys
Obsidian Theatre, in association with the Shaw Festival, brought its production of Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold” …and the Boys to Toronto, opening last night at the Toronto Centre for the Arts Studio theatre. Directed by Philip Akin, and inspired by Fugard’s childhood relationships with the black employees of his mother’s…
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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: Oct 10, 2016
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. – John Milton
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Continue reading →: Sympathy for the devil & debate on the nature of humanity in darkly comic, thoughtful Dead End
Theatre Lab opened its production of Jonny Sun’s Dead End, directed by Michael Orlando, on Thursday night in the Factory Theatre Studio, where I caught it last night, along with a post-show talkback with Sun and Orlando. Set in an isolated and claustrophobic fourth floor corridor of an abandoned high…
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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: Oct 3, 2016
Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. – Maya Angelou
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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: Sept 26, 2016
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. – Rumi
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I’m Cate (she/her)
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