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Moments, Theatre

SummerWorks: The painful truth on the road to reconciliation in beautiful & compelling The Living

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August 8, 2015

How can we move on if we can’t accept the impossible? Brown paper, like fallen leaves, strewn across the floor – a struggling landscape. Two shrouded bodies, still, unbreathing – the dead. This is the sight on the playing area as you enter the Theatre Centre Incubator space – the…
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Theatre

SummerWorks: Fire & ice, & the terrible toll of oil production & transport in powerful Lac/Athabasca

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August 7, 2015

Started my SummerWorks 2015 adventures at Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM) last night, with the opening of Theatre Free Radical’s production of Len Falkenstein’s Lac/Athabasca, directed by Falkenstein and running in the Mainspace. Oil and water, crossing over land and across provinces. Like the fur traders of Canada’s infancy, you gotta…
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Art, Dance, Music, Photography, Theatre

SummerWorks 25 is coming!

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August 5, 2015

Hey kids! I’ve been away from the blog for a bit, busy with summertime family and social gatherings, and getting some R&R in before the next big wave of events. And can you believe it’s August already? Being August also means it’s time for SummerWorks, a juried, multidisciplinary performance festival…
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Theatre

Orange is the new Hamlet in Driftwood Theatre’s steel-sharp, fast-paced tale of grief, revenge & truth

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July 24, 2015

Driftwood Theatre Group launched its 21st annual Bard’s Bus Tour with their production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet earlier this month, text adapted by Toby Malone and directed by Driftwood Artistic Director D. Jeremy Smith – currently running in Toronto at Withrow Park from July 21-26. As part of Driftwood’s Shakesperience…
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Music

Burn Apollo & guest Perivale rock the house @ packed Junction City Music Hall all-ages event

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July 22, 2015

The Junction City Music Hall was rockin’ a packed house last night with an all-ages event featuring two local young bands: Burn Apollo, with opening guests Perivale. Perivale brought some high-energy rock infused with hints of pop and blues, as well as some 80s/90s-influenced sounds like U2. If Sting and…
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Comedy, Spoken word

Hilariously scathing social satire in Jeff Cottrill’s This Album is NIT FENNY! spoken word CD

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July 20, 2015

I’ve described Jeff Cottrill as a stand-up poet, his work an LOL funny mash-up of stand-up comedy and spoken word that pokes fun at individual and societal silliness – and this is in high evidence in his recent spoken word CD This Album is NIT FENNY! This Album is NIT…
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Burlesque, Dance, Music, Theatre

StageWorks Toronto’s Cabaret: Sexy, powerful and boldly staged with a sharp ensemble

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July 17, 2015

Berlin in the early 1930s: a city teaming with life, creativity and possibility. The Kit Kat Klub: a seedy palace of edgy, playful and raunchy entertainment. And a political storm is brewing that will change everything. StageWorks Toronto opened its fifth musical, Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret (book by Joe Masteroff,…
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Theatre

Last call for Ale House Theatre Co.’s Twelfe Night, or what you will – one night only Thurs, July 16

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July 14, 2015

Did you miss seeing Ale House Theatre Co.’s Original Practices production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfe Night, or what you will during Toronto Fringe? Fear not, gentle theatre lovers! The company is doing one more, very special, performance at St. Vladimir Theatre on Thursday, July 16 at 8:00 p.m. What’s so…
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Comedy, Moments, Theatre

Toronto Fringe: The lighter side of the Autism Spectrum in Aspergers: A Tale of a Social Misfit

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July 13, 2015

My last show at this year’s Toronto Fringe took me back to the Tarragon Theatre Solo Room for Autistic Productions’ run of Adam Schwartz’s Aspergers: A Tale of a Social Misfit. Highly entertaining, this is stand-up delivered from the point of view of someone on the Autism Spectrum. From coming…
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Comedy, Moments, Theatre

Toronto Fringe: Dark times become comic fodder as stand-up meets storytelling in hilarious A Nurse’s Worst Nightmare

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July 12, 2015

Saw another highly entertaining, and thought-provoking, solo show at Toronto Fringe yesterday: Zabrina Chevannes’s A Nurse’s Worst Nightmare at the Theatre Passe Muraille TPM) Backspace. I missed this show when it featured in the 2015 Soulo Theatre Festival in May, so was very happy to catch it on the Fringe…
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