Announcements
Press Release: Canadians Can Nominate Favourites for Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards
By Sonia Borkar
From press release
NOMINATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 23
Ottawa, September 14, 2011 – Canadians are encouraged to nominate their favourite Canadian performing artists for the prestigious Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA). Nominations for these Awards – presented for lifetime artistic achievement in the fields of broadcasting, classical music, dance, film, popular music, and theatre as well as for voluntarism in the performing arts – can be made online at http://www.ggpaa.ca/en/nomination.html until September 23, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
Press Release: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents THE MAIDS by Jean Genet
By Sonia Borkar
From press release
1933. French police find Madame Lancelin and her daughter face down, in their living room, mutilated. Upstairs, two maids are found naked, huddled together in one of two single beds. Their motive: self-defense against an abusive mistress. This true story was the inspiration for queer iconoclast Jean Genet’s masterpiece. A powerful statement against servitude, this psychosexual thriller is brought to you by the creative team behind last season’s acclaimed production of Sarah Kane’s Blasted. Read the rest of this entry »
Review: Exit the King (Soulpepper)
By Crystal Wood
Death is the most absurd thing in life. This is the basic premise behind Exit the King by Eugène Ionesco, currently being produced by Soulpepper Theatre at the Young Centre. I found the play to be a little absurd myself, though probably not in the way the playwright intended.
The story is one in which King Berenger the First, the 400-year-old ruler of a fictional kingdom, is told of his impending death. (I believe the exact words are “You are going to die by the end of this play.”) He and his royal court spend the rest of the show processing this. We go through the stages of grief with the King – denial, sadness, acceptance, etc. – and I don’t think it’s spoiling anything to tell you that he does indeed make his Final Exit at the end. Read the rest of this entry »
The Panel Show set to make its debut Tuesday August 30, 2011
By Sonia Borkar
From Press Release
New live, comedy quiz/chat show called The Panel Show debuts in Toronto on Tuesday, August 30th at the Bar Cade Theatre at the Hard Luck Bar. It’s a new take on the old medium of Panel Game shows (e.g. Match Game, What’s My Line, etc.) based on current events and trivia and filled with lots of comedy/variety elements (e.g. surprise guests, character walk-ons, etc.). The heart of the show is going to be the banter of the Panel, and there’s a great one for the first show (Comedian Ron Sparks, Writer/Publisher Rhonda Riche, and Writer Mike Kiss). Read the rest of this entry »
New Toronto Theatre Company StageWorks Now Performing Sondheim’s “Into The Woods”
From Press Release
A not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to bringing dynamic theatre productions to Toronto audiences, StageWorks Toronto is pleased to announce its inaugural musical production, Into The Woods – playing at the Annex Theatre – 730 Bathurst Street – from August 18-21, 2011.
The Lab Cab Festival Celebrates its 6th Year
From press release
On September 3rd and 4th 2011, the Lab Cab Festival celebrates its sixth year at the Factory Theatre. Music, dance, theatre, film, poetry, kids stuff, clown, multi-media, visual art and comedy are presented in the basement, washrooms, lounges, stairwells, theatres, lobbies, rehearsal hall, carpentry shop, courtyard, parking lot and greenrooms of the 142 year old building. The best part? Free admission, free child care, and free pancakes!
The Lab Cab Festival is a free community event. The mandate of the Lab Cab Festival is to provide a home for various artistic disciplines to experiment with new work in a fun and supportive environment. Over fifty performance groups from various artistic disciplines will perform work between 5 and 30 minutes.
Announcement: Lysistrata (Canopy Theatre Company) Extreme Weather Cancellation today.
By admin
MEDIA ADVISORY – July 21, 2011
EXTREME WEATHER CANCELLATION
Due to the extreme heat warning issued for the city of Toronto, we will be cancelling the performance for this evening: Thursday July 21, 2011.
Best of Fringe Uptown! at the Toronto Centre for the Arts
By Sonia Borkar
This delightful juried festival invites the best performances of the Fringe Festival, uptown to the Toronto Centre for the Arts for bonus performances. In a single night you will be able to see two very different performances. Tickets are $15 and the full list of shows is available now at www.tocentre.com Tickets can be purchased through the Toronto Centre of the Arts website, and not through the Toronto Fringe Festival Box Office.
Here are the 11 shows that have been selected for the Best of Fringe:
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Patron’s Picks for 2011 Toronto Fringe Fest – get tickets to those shows that kept selling out!
By Megan Mooney
Each of the festival’s 13 main venues has a Patron’s Pick. It is determined by the show that sells the most tickets to their show over the course of the festival. Unlike during the rest of the festival, where only 50% of the tickets are available for advance sale, For the Patron’s Pick, 100% of tickets can be sold in advance, so make sure to buy your tickets early. They’re on sale now, and you buy them just like any other advance tickets at the Fringe.
All the patron’s picks are Sunday evening, a listing of the time in each venue is in bold in the Sunday section of the Master Schedule.
See below for a listing of all the patron’s picks:
Advertise with MoT for the rest of Fringe – Bargain Basement Prices…
By Megan Mooney
So, I’ve been too busy getting set up for Fringe to do anything about advertising during Fringe on Mooney on Theatre this year. But I really really want to have local advertizing on Mooney on Theatre instead of Google Ads. Google ads is make me a surprising amount of money, apparently I have a really good click-through rate, but I don’t have the control I want. I want to feature local businesses and arts organizations if I can.
Mooney on Theatre is completely volunteer run, but our ads pay for administrative costs (hosting, publicity stuff, business cards etc).
This would be an excellent time to advertise printing services, headshots, rehersal spaces, upcoming shows, general arts organizations and companies things like that.
With that in mind, I’m offering super super super cheap prices for ads for this week, where we expect to get about 50,000 hits (we got almost 40,000 in the first week, and Fringe didn’t start until Wednesday night).
So, here’s what’s up for offer Read the rest of this entry »