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Continue reading →: The evolution of Jonathan Larson – tick, tick… BOOM!
Opening nights have an energy unlike any other night of a run. Full of expectation, anticipation, celebration – and last night’s opening of Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick… BOOM! at the Toronto Centre for the Arts was especially so. Co-produced by Angelwalk Theatre and Newface Entertainment, and directed by Tim French…
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Continue reading →: Tennesee Williams classic in extreme punk rock close-up: A Streetcar Named Desire – The House Show
Saw some outstanding indie theatre at its purest and best last night in Studio BLR’s punk rock adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire: A Streetcar Named Desire – The House Show. The audience assembles in Dragon Alley, near the northwest corner of College and Dufferin. Soon, Eunice (Jasmine…
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Continue reading →: Hilariously sexy good times – The Underpants
Men are silly. Then again, so are women. And we all become equally silly when we let our desires run away with us. And it’s especially fun when otherwise straight-laced, upstanding citizens toss their hang-ups aside as they get carried away. The Underpants, Steve Martin’s adaptation of Carl Sternheim’s Die…
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Continue reading →: “The Underpants” producer talks to the cast
Originally posted on The Alumnae Theatre Company's Blog: The Underpants producer Jennifer McKinley interviewed the cast, and contributes this fascinating post – including rehearsal photos! – about a play she describes as “funny, fast-paced, bawdy and sophisticated”. I mean, cone on: doesn’t everybody think of sophistication when they think…
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Continue reading →: Talking theatre with Phil Rickaby!
Originally posted on KAT LEONARD (Kat & The MP3): Phil Rickaby’s weekly podcast All the World’s a Podcast features Canadian Theatre professionals. We sat down together and gabbed about theatre, performing, A Depper Kind Of Love, Katbaret and other riveting subjects. (Thanks, Phil!) If you put it on in the background…
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Continue reading →: A brief & engaging history of Richard Sheridan Willis – Strolling Player
Every work of art tells a story – no matter what the medium – and likely our first experience of a story was having one read or told to us, usually by one person. Put that person onstage and they become part storyteller, part entertainer and even – if we’re…
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Continue reading →: Noir ‘teased our lips like raspberries’
Originally posted on TOpoet: Cabaret Noir kicked off its residency at its new location The Central with a take-no-prisoner’s line up that shows Lizzie Violet means business. As much as I like The Central, enjoy the great food & service I don’t understand why they insist on playing the house…
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