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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe Festival – I’d also highly recommend…
Here are a few other Fringe shows I’ve seen and would recommend: Radio:30 – I missed the original run of this show (1999) and was so glad to catch it this time around, thanks to the suggestion from Alumnae Theatre pal Brenda Somers as we met up over brunch last…
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Continue reading →: Choosing to collide in love – Stop Kiss
Saw Gun Shy Theatre’s Toronto Fringe production of Diana Son’s Stop Kiss at the Tarragon Main Space last night. Directed by Shaun Bensen, and featuring a stand-out cast, it’s a play I was familiar with, but only on the page. And I was very glad to have gone out to…
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Continue reading →: Gripping family drama in American dream turned nightmare – Killcreek
Brandon Pitts’ new play Killcreek, recently published by IOWI and directed by Katherine E. Bignell, opened its Toronto Fringe run at the Randolph Theatre last night. In Killcreek, a fictitious 1950s Montana mining town, miners have been laid off and are scrambling to earn what living they can with alternate…
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Continue reading →: A brave & vulnerable hero’s journey – Just Lift Your Feet
Actor/playwright Heather Allin’s one-woman fable Just Lift Your Feet had its Toronto Fringe Festival opening at the Robert Gill Theatre last night, playing in a late-night time slot to a small but engaged audience. Directed by Dennis Hayes, Just Lift Your Feet has its origins in a SoulOTheatre solo show…
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Continue reading →: Surprise!! All hail Margaret Spence
Originally posted on The Alumnae Theatre Company's Blog: Margaret at a Shaw Festival costume workshop (2012?) The much-beloved Margaret Spence was the longtime Wardrobe Mistress of Alumnae Theatre Company, and is a frequent costume designer. When she announced her retirement at the end of the 2011/12 season, some kind of…
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Continue reading →: Just Lift Your Feet – interview with actor/playwright Heather Allin
Just one week away from the opening of the Toronto Fringe Festival, my friends, and I had the pleasure of interviewing actor/playwright Heather Allin, who took some time amidst a super busy pre-Fringe schedule to answer some questions over email about her upcoming one-woman Fringe play Just Lift Your Feet.…
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Continue reading →: It’s almost that time, kids — Toronto Fringe Festival is coming!
So how did it get to be the last week of June already?! Good news is that means that we’re about a week away from the Toronto Fringe Festival, running July 3-14. Here’s a handful of shows I’m planning on seeing, with more to come: Just Lift Your Feet, by…
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Continue reading →: Everything Begins with Love @ Arlene Paculan CD launch
Singer/songwriter Arlene Paculan celebrated the launch of her first full-length CD Everything Begins with Love in a packed room at Gallery 345, Toronto last night. Super-energized comic pop performer Kat Leonard kicked the evening off, opening with a set of fun, poignant originals and Kat-branded covers, starting with her Johnny Depp…







