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Continue reading →: Top 10 theatre 2015
Seeing the top 10 theatre lists coming out this week reminded me that I had yet to do my own. So I’m briefly coming out of holiday hibernation to post my top 10 theatre for 2015 (in alphabetical order): Blind Date (Tarragon Theatre) Cabaret (StageWorks) Creditors (Coal Mine Theatre) Divine…
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Continue reading →: Fabulous time as Panto Players milk the big panto fun in Jacques & the Bean Stock Market
Red Sandcastle Theatre’s Panto Players opened their 5th annual holiday panto last week with a three-day pre-holiday run of Jacques and the Bean Stock Market, returning to the stage on Dec 26. Written by Jane A. Shields and Rosemary Doyle, and directed by Jackie English, The Panto Players take us…
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Continue reading →: The Fairest & Best keep us movin’ & groovin’ with When I Feel Like This EP
The Fairest and Best released their new EP When I Feel Like This back on October 23. Due to my scaled-back blogging schedule for the duration of my copywriting class, I missed the party, but I’ve been listening to the record and finally have some time to shout it out…
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Continue reading →: Two women’s memoirs of wartime resilience & survival in powerful, poetic Double Bill: Licking Knives & Man to Man
Headstrong Collective opened its Double Bill of one-person plays – Licking Knives and Man to Man – at Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM) Backspace this week. Using minimalist sets and eye-catching, at times startling, images projected on the upstage wall, these two well-matched plays are portraits of women forced into life-changing,…
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Continue reading →: Luminous images of birds in Clara Blackwood’s Aviary exhibit
Finally made it out to The Hermit’s Lamp this afternoon to see Clara Blackwood’s Aviary exhibit of paintings – and I’m so glad I did. Largely executed in acrylic on canvas, the pieces presented in Aviary are images of birds, mostly owls. The paintings are at times haunting, playful and…
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Continue reading →: Great fun & lots of laughs in AST’s big, bold & stylish Lend Me a Tenor
Alexander Showcase Theatre (AST) opened its production of Ken Ludwig’s hilarious romp Lend Me a Tenor at the Papermill Theatre at Todmorden Mills on Thursday, directed by Vincenzo Sestito. Set in 1934 in a hotel suite in Cleveland, Cleveland Grand Opera Company manager Henry Saunders (Seth Mukamal), his daughter Maggie…
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Continue reading →: Bittersweet memoir of lost love in A Play on Passion
A young crime novelist meets with a grand dame of Canadian theatre to ghost write her memoir – and gets a lesson on love in A Play on Passion. Written by G.D. Corkum and Patricia Delves, and directed/produced by Danielle Capretti, the play is being presented as a rehearsed reading…
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Continue reading →: FireWorks: Lumpectomy champion Dr. Vera Peters puts ‘Do No Harm’ to the test in Radical
The final production of Alumnae Theatre’s annual FireWorks program opened last night: Charles Hayter’s Radical, directed by Neil Affleck, with associate director Ingryd Pleitez. I saw an earlier version of Radical at the 2014 Toronto Fringe Festival – and loved it – so I was very excited to see it…
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