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Continue reading →: Interview with Jennifer Neales on #HERstoryCounts theatre project
Actor/Artistic Producer Jennifer Neales has assembled a company of talented creators, producers and mentors to create an exciting new theatre project, set to premiere at Red Sandcastle Theatre April 22-24. #HERstoryCounts is an indie Canadian production, presenting a series of autobiographical monologues that bring to life personal stories of “endurance,…
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Continue reading →: Rootin’ tootin’, swashbuckling good time had by all at Sex T-Rex double feature Sex T-Rep
Sex T-Rex opened its hilarious, action-packed Sex T-Rep at the Storefront Theatre to a full house last night, with a double feature line-up of Watch Out Wildkat! and Swordplay: A Play of Swords. Sex T-Rex is: Conor Bradbury, Julian Frid, Kaitlin Morrow (co-producer), Seann Murray (co-producer) and Daniel Pagett; with…
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Continue reading →: Connection, dissension & endurance in New Ideas compelling Week 1 program
Alumnae Theatre opened its annual New Ideas Festival (NIF) of short new works with a strong Week 1 program in the Studio space last night. Here’s what’s on the menu this week: Stuck (by Stacey Iseman, directed by Kelsey Laine Jacobson). Polar opposites Joanne (Cathie Nichols) and Alice (Glenda Romano)…
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Continue reading →: Delight & devastation in deeply moving, insightful & brutally honest Pyaasa
“Life isn’t easy, Chaya … but you have to believe in it.” – Pyassa, by Anusree Roy Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM) opened its remount of Anusree Roy’s Dora award-winning one-woman play Pyaasa in the Backspace last night. Directed by Thomas Morgan Jones and originally produced in 2008 to sold-out houses,…
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Continue reading →: Luminous, organic & abstract works, vibrating with colour & tension in Mediated Space exhibit
Humans react and respond to their environment. The space, atmosphere and the room ingredients, especially the art. Abstract expressionist art has an active and interactive effect on the occupants of a room – offering windows and doors, mood and attitude where there are otherwise merely walls to contain the space.…
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Continue reading →: Witch hunt meets climate change conspiracy in Village Playhouse’s haunting, dystopic Foxfinder
The time is the present. The world is not quite the same as the one in which you and I live. Foxfinder program note The Village Playhouse opened its production of Dawn King’s Foxfinder last week, a Canadian premiere directed by Nicole Arends. A hard rainstorm threatens the Covey farm’s…
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Continue reading →: Interview with Vanessa Smythe on Outside the March collaboration for 100 Outside Voices
“Maybe a city is not just a place, but a suggestion of what we place in our hearts.” – Vanessa Smythe, 100 Outside Voices Outside the March (OtM) asked Toronto actor/poet/spoken word artist Vanessa Smythe to compose a 100-line love letter to Toronto. The resulting piece, 100 Outside Voices, will…
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Continue reading →: Picasso & Einstein walk into a bar; art, science, women & philosophy ensue in hilarious, surreal Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Picasso and Einstein walk into a bar. This is the set-up for Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Seven Siblings Theatre’s current production, directed by Seven Siblings co-founder Erika Downie, which opened at Kensington Market bar venue Round last night. It was my first time at Round, a…
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Continue reading →: High Heels Lo Fi rawks it good & hard in All Sass No Class Kick Ass EP
Garage glitz raunch rock band High Heels Lo Fi is revving up to launch their new EP All Sass No Class Kick Ass on February 23 at Cherry Cola’s – and my ears got a sneak preview of the record. High Heels Lo Fi is: Cynthia Gould (vocals), Doug Lea…
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