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Continue reading →: Raw, honest & irreverently funny with no apologies – Troublemaker @ SOULO Fest
You can’t say you weren’t warned. Tracey Erin Smith and SoulOTheatre opened the 2015 SOULO Theatre Festival last night at Aki Studio at the Daniels Spectrum with a gala performance of the Toronto premiere of Rebecca Northan’s Troublemaker. And what a celebration it was! Opening to a packed house with…
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Continue reading →: Big eclectic, quirky fun with music that moves and grooves – The Fairest & Best @ Horseshoe Tavern
Was out on a school night at the Horseshoe Tavern last night to see The Fairest and Best. I’d met front man Robert Graham a couple of years ago at a Red Sandcastle Theatre fundraiser – and had a chance to sample some of his solo work Storm in a…
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Continue reading →: Charmingly funny, moving & thought-provoking insight on identity & culture in Mahmoud
Why Not Theatre’s 2015 edition of the RISER Project continued its programming last night at the Theatre Centre with previews of its two final shows – I saw Mahmoud. Produced in partnership with Pandemic Theatre, written by Tara Grammy and Tom Arthur Davis, directed by Davis and starring Grammy, Mahmoud is…
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Continue reading →: SoulOTheatre’s SOULO Theatre Festival is coming (May 21-24)!
Big treat coming up for you theatre fans: Tracey Erin Smith and SoulOTheatre are back with an awesome line-up of solo shows with the 2015 SOULO Theatre Festival! Running May 21 – 24, SOULO Fest opens with a gala performance of Rebecca Northan’s Troublemaker at Aki Studio at the Daniels…
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Continue reading →: Twilight Zone meets Lord of the Flies in playful, disturbing and disorienting Half a League
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred… – “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Rarely Pure Theatre’s production of Half a League, by Scott Garland and directed by Alexander Offord, had its gala…
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Continue reading →: An Open Letter To All Of My Friends Who Take Selfies
Originally posted on The Belle Jar: Dear Friends Who Take Selfies, I want you to know that I love it when you post pictures of yourself. I know selfies get a lot of bad press, but I think they’re rad. They give me a little window into your life, and you’d…
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Continue reading →: Bloody good musical macabredy fun in Alexander Showcase Theatre’s Sweeney Todd
From the dark, seedy nooks and alleyways of the foggy set, and creepy opening organ music to its tragic ending, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street takes us from pathos to camp and back again in this story of one man’s singular and bloody drive for revenge gone…
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Continue reading →: An erotic, moving & sharply funny piece of storytelling in Aromas
It was back to Alumnae Theatre last night, in the Studio this time for the world premiere of the Junes Company’s production of Aromas, written/directed by Andrew Faiz, and starring Andy Fraser. I saw this compelling one-person show when an earlier draft of the play was produced at Red Sandcastle…
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