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Continue reading →: Preview: June Cleaver goes to hell in hilariously dark, satirical & surreal Hot Kitchen/SECOND SHIFT
Filament Incubator presents Raw Matter’s production of Hot Kitchen/SECOND SHIFT, written, directed, designed and performed by the Raw Matter ensemble, incorporating the writing of Sylvia Plath, Silvia Federici and Jean Genet. Opening tonight, I caught the preview at Kensington Hall (56A Kensington Ave., Toronto) last night. When you arrive in…
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Continue reading →: Preview: Keeping it real, present & loving when Mimi met Tara in delightfully funny & touching Blind Date
Every person in the room is trying not to get caught staring at your beauty. – A complementary compliment from Blind Date When Blind Date creator/actor Rebecca Northan announced that her famous clown/improv/audience participation piece would be getting its first time ever gay make-over at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre,…
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Continue reading →: Love & loss, assumptions & perspectives in sharp, touching, painfully funny This
Alumnae Theatre Company opened its 2016-17 season with Melissa James Gibson’s This, directed by Rebecca Ballarin, on the Mainstage on Friday night. I caught the matinée yesterday afternoon. Four college friends, now in their late 30s, share life, love and loss in this poignant, sometimes wacky tale of relationships, and…
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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: Sept 19, 2016
A life lived in fear is a live half lived. – translation of a Spanish proverb in Strictly Ballroom, Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
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Continue reading →: In memoriam: Ed Rosing
Ed Rosing March 11, 1929 – September 12, 2016 Ed Rosing (aka Eddie, Eduardo) was a creative soul with a quick, sharp wit, and a great love of classical music, opera and theatre. He played piano, was an original founding member of Cabbagetown Theatre, and worked as a respected interior…
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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: Sept 12, 2016
There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. – Hamlet, William Shakespeare
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Continue reading →: Fond & fierce dreams in poignant 73H Productions’/Howland Company’s modern-day reflection on The Glass Menagerie
73H Productions, with the support of The Howland Company, opened its production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, directed by Philip McKee, in the Theatre Centre Incubator space last night. Set in St. Louis, Amanda Wingfield (Tracey Hoyt) lives in a cramped apartment with her two young adult children Tom…
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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: Aug 29, 2016
Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul. – Walt Whitman
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