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Announcement: Theatre Passe Muraille Announces Fall 2012 Season
The season’s theme, Theatre Beyond Walls, focuses on Toronto stories and community interactivity
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In 2011, Theatre Passe Muraille received a 50th anniversary grant from the Metcalf Foundation. The result of which is the 2012 Theatre Passe Muraille Fall Season: Theatre Beyond Walls. Thanks in large part to the vision and financial support of the Metcalf Foundation, TPM has dreamed big and gone beyond the range of traditional theatrical activity to launch this program.
Announcement: Theatre 20′s inaugural season of production features two new Canadian musicals and Sondheim’s Company
By Sonia Borkar
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Joseph Aragon’s Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare makes its Toronto premiere and Raindogs by Andrew MacBean will be presented in partnership with Sheridan College’s Canadian Music Theatre Project
Theatre 20, Toronto’s artist-led musical theatre company, today announced its inaugural season of production at a press conference and exclusive ticketed cocktail affair, “A Taste of 20: Sample the Season”. The event launches a season which includes two workshops, two full productions, and a series of other events.
New Study: Toronto Falls Far Behind Large Canadian Cities in Municipal Arts Investment
By Sonia Borkar
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Hill Strategies Research released a report today, Municipal Cultural Investment in Five Large Canadian Cities, comparing arts funding in the following cities: Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.
Investment by Toronto City Council ranks Toronto lowest by a wide margin. Per capita investment in each city is, from highest to lowest:
Montreal: $55
Vancouver: $47
Calgary: $42
Ottawa: $28
Toronto: $19
[Sponsored] Cabaret makes its way to Hart House Theatre in Toronto
By Megan Mooney
I first saw Cabaret when I was in high school. It was a high school production. I loved it. I loved it enough that I immediately went out and rented the movie. I was sorely disappointed by the movie, it was SO much better live.
Well, this month we in Toronto have an opportunity to see it live again. Hart House Theatre is presenting Cabaret from Friday January 13, 2012 to January 28, 2012. I can also guarantee that as much as I loved it the first time I saw it live, this one will be even better than that production of long ago.
Tomasso’s Party – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release
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As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Rooftop Productions presents Tomasso’s Party
Tomasso’s Party, by young novelist Jules Lewis (Waiting for Ricky Tantrum, Dundurn Press), holds a microscope up to conventional ideas of intimacy through the nuanced exploration of a simple circumstance involving a young couple: Madeleine wants to go to Tomasso’s party; Hugo does not.
The Washing Machine – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release
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As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Red Betty Theatre presents The Washing Machine
The Washing Machine chronicles the aftermath of Isabelle’s return to Chez Nous – her childhood home in India. Through the influence of octogenarian gurus, ghostly meddling spirits, and a multitude of crying monkeys, Isabelle is forced to realize that no fancy spin cycles can wash away the ‘dirty laundry’ that is her ancestry.
LoveSexMoney – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release
By Sonia Borkar
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As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Theatre Brouhaha presents LoveSexMoney
You want it. You need it. Would you pay for it? After a sold-out run at the Factory Studio last winter, Theatre Brouhaha presents LOVESEXMONEY by Kat Sandler, a sexy, fast-paced new play about intimacy in the Information Age. Olivia sells her virginity online. Simon buys it. Jim, her boyfriend, tries to stop her. Read the rest of this entry »
The Tiki Bikini Beach Paradise Party A-Go-Go! – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release
By Sonia Borkar
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As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Allison Beula Productions presents The Tiki Bikini Beach Paradise Party A-Go-Go!
An ultra enthusiastic, hyper-speed a-go-go keen teen musical that is a loving parody of the Beach Party movies of the 1960’s. A triple threat cast, a live vintage surf band (“The von Drats”) and original tunes written by Composer Jeffery Straker and Director/Choreographer Allison Beula round out the beach party fun! Patrons’ Pick at the 2011 Toronto Fringe and presented at the Best of the Fringe Uptown. Read the rest of this entry »
Modern Love – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release
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As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Theatre Caravel presents Modern Love
Written and performed by Jessica Moss (Outstanding Performance, Summerworks 2008, dust, NOW Magazine; Outstanding Ensemble, Fringe 2011, Swoon, NOW Magazine), Modern Love is a poignant and hilarious look at relationships and technology. “How can you feel alone when you have 600 friends? When you carry everyone you know in your pocket all the time, why is it so hard to connect? There used to be a loneliness I could only feel in crowded rooms, and now I feel it all the time…”
Loving the Stranger or How to Recognize an Invert – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release
By Sonia Borkar
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As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Ecce Homo Theatre presents Loving a Stranger or How to Recognize an Invert
Award winning company Ecce Homo Theatre (Of a Monstrous Child: a gaga musical, The Pastor Phelps Project) present an updated remount of Alistair Newton’s Loving the Stranger or how to recognize an invert based on the incredible life story of Montreal’s Peter Flinsch: theatre designer, visual artist, and survivor of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, arrested in 1942 for kissing a friend at a Christmas party. Read the rest of this entry »