Lauren Gillis. Photo by Peter Demas. Lester Trips Theatre presents a provocative multimedia workshop production of the hilarious, disturbing, eye-opening Safe and Sorry. Co-created and performed by Lauren Gillis and Alaine Hutton, co-performed and choreographed by Angela Blumberg, and directed by Chelsea Dab Hilke, we’re invited into the world of Keith Much, who leadsContinue reading “SummerWorks: Pick-up artistry meets consent culture in the hilarious, disturbing, eye-opening Safe and Sorry”
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Toronto Fringe: Into the mouth of the sea lion with the absurd surreal sketch comedy of Swallowed Whole
Carly Telford, Chris O’Bray & Raechel Fisher. Photo by Laura-Kate Dymond. Irrelephant Productions takes us into the mouth of the sea lion for 55 minutes of absurd sketch comedy, peppered with drag performance and social satire in the wacky, surreal Swallowed Whole, written and directed by Rachel Perry, and running at the Helen GardinerContinue reading “Toronto Fringe: Into the mouth of the sea lion with the absurd surreal sketch comedy of Swallowed Whole”
Toronto Fringe: Millennials surviving working & adulting in the lighthearted, satirical Above & Beyond
Seated: Tatyana Mitchell & Natasha Ramondino. Standing: Felix Beauchamp, Rabiya Mansoor, Andrea Irwin & Francis Masaba. Set and costume design by Jules Mendoza. Photo by Angela Sun. JackieTol Productions gives us a lighthearted, satirical look at slogging it out in an office cubicle as two Millennial pals try to survive working and adulting inContinue reading “Toronto Fringe: Millennials surviving working & adulting in the lighthearted, satirical Above & Beyond”
Sharply funny, moving, candid looks at LGBTQ lives in 7th annual Gay Play Day
Gay Play Day—an annual festival of short, new plays written by LGBTQ playwrights and their allies—returns to the Alumnae Theatre Studio for two days only. This is the 7th year of the fest for founding AD Darren Stewart-Jones and the GPD team, which this year includes technical director Johnny Salib and Henry Keeler on frontContinue reading “Sharply funny, moving, candid looks at LGBTQ lives in 7th annual Gay Play Day”
The implications of a kiss: When Raymond met Mimi in a hilarious, moving, cerebral Blind Date
Back by popular demand from its 2015-16 season, Tarragon Theatre wraps its 2016-17 season with Spontaneous Theatre’s production of Blind Date, created by Rebecca Northan. This run of the improv date night hit features Northan, Christy Bruce and Tess Degenstein as rotating Mimis, and Bruce Horak as various other characters. For those of you notContinue reading “The implications of a kiss: When Raymond met Mimi in a hilarious, moving, cerebral Blind Date”
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