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Continue reading →: Mothers & daughters, & love, separation & forgiveness in funny, thoughtful, moving How Black Mothers Say I Love You
Six years in the making, writer/producer/motivational speaker Trey Anthony had a dream to write and produce a play about black mothers, particularly black mothers who left their children behind as they searched for a better life, an experience that is painfully familiar to her. Anthony joined forces with producer Carys…
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Continue reading →: Love & pregnancy meet eugenics, pitting Deaf against hearing culture in thought-provoking, moving ULTRASOUND
Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM) and Cahoots Theatre have joined forces for a unique and innovative co-production, the debut of deaf writer Adam Pottle’s ULTRASOUND, directed by Marjorie Chan, and performed in English and American Sign Language (ASL) with projected surtitles – running now in the TPM Mainspace. Deaf couple Alphonse…
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Continue reading →: Interview with Andrea Scott on upcoming Don’t Talk to Me Like I’m Your Wife @ SummerWorks
Andrea Scott is an award-winning Toronto-based actor, playwright and producer at Call Me Scotty Productions. Her plays have appeared in the New Ideas Festival and SummerWorks (Eating Pomegranates Naked and Better Angels: A Parable – the latter is also featured on Expect Theatre’s PlayMe podcast), in a Mixed Company Theatre…
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Continue reading →: Trippy, quirky, thought-provoking mind-f*ck of a good time in The Summoned
If it can be done it will be done. Static for a time, then appearing as if being typed by an unseen hand, there is a quasi-religious elegance to these words. God meets science. This is how the stage is set for Tarragon Theatre’s world premiere of Fabrizio Filippo’s The…
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Continue reading →: Assumptions, uncertainty & paranoia in powerful, eye-opening Refuge
There’s a heart-wrenching and thought-provoking piece of socio-political theatre running in the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace right now: Nightwood Theatre’s production of Mary Vingoe’s Refuge, directed by Kelly Thornton. The play was inspired in part by the award-winning CBC Radio documentary Habtom’s Path by Mary Lynk, as well as Vingoe’s personal…
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Continue reading →: Directors Call for FireWorks 2016
Originally posted on The Alumnae Theatre Company's Blog: The last production of Alumnae Theatre Company’s 2015/16 season, August: Osage County, winds up its run tomorrow. And already plans are underway for the 2016/17 season: the scripts have been selected for FireWorks series in November, and now it’s time for directors…
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Continue reading →: Strength, struggle & identity in funny, brave & poignant HERStory Counts
Seven performers. Three nights. One theatre project just getting started. Artistic producer/project founder Jennifer Neales had been frustrated about the lack of diverse voices in theatre – particularly womyn of colour – for 10 years; that is, until she decided to do something about it. And that something is…
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Continue reading →: Intense, complex psychological game of cat & mouse in interrogation thriller Caught
Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM) continues its 2015-16 season with resident playwright Jordi Mand’s intimate and gripping Caught, directed by Sarah Garton Stanley. Sixteen-year-old James (Jakob Ehman) has been caught for theft over $2,000 by department store security guard Trisha (Sabryn Rock) and is being held for questioning in the store’s…
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Continue reading →: Nasty family schemes go to hell in Coal Mine Theatre’s primal, raw & darkly funny Killer Joe
There’s a mini-Lettsapalooza going on in Toronto right now – and last night, I stopped by Coal Mine Theatre to see their production of Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe, directed by Peter Pasyk. Chris Smith (Matthew Gouveia) is in big trouble. In deep with drug debts, he owes a mean son…
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Continue reading →: Lovely ode to vaudeville in the bawdy, funny & poignant Mel Malarkey Gets the Bum’s Rush
Fresh from a very successful run at The Theatre on King in Peterborough, Cathy Petch mounted Mel Malarkey Gets the Bum’s Rush for a one-night performance in Toronto, playing to a packed room at The Cameron House last night. Accompanied by Dickie the Pianist (director Em Glasspool), Mel (Petch) walks the…
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