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We’re Back! (Sort of)
By admin
If you’re a regular visitor (and of course, who wouldn’t be, right?) you’d have noticed that our site was down for a couple days because Google was reporting us as hosting Malware.
There are some issues to sort out, and there’s more info to come, but for now, here’s a few bits and bobs:
- No personal or private information was ever at risk
- The site itself wasn’t actually hacked or compromised – the ad server that we used served up the nastiness
- You’ll notice that there aren’t any ads on the site right now. See above
- We recreated the entire site from scratch anyway, with new, freshly baked code from WordPress, just to be sure
- We’re very very sorry, but if you came to the site while our adserver was being nasty, you may have been given malware from it. You should use a good anti-virus to make sure you’re ok. This is a good free one. So is this.
- You should scan your computer anyway. It’s just good practice
Even though we’ve cleaned up, you may get warnings and errors from various sources (Google, Firefox, etc) about our site anyway. That will continue until Google looks at our site and decides that we’re ok.
Please excuse our silence…
By Megan Mooney
Just a quick note to apologize for the lack of articles this week, we’re applying for a grant and it’s taking up every waking second we have.
But, don’t worry, articles galore are to come, since Summerworks starts this week, and so does our coverage of it.
The Toxic Avenger – The Music Hall
By Dana Lacey
By Dana Lacey
You might remember The Toxic Avenger. The campy horror/comedy film about a vigilante mutant nerd debuted in 1984 to little fanfare, but quickly captured the hearts of B-movie aficionados. Well it’s back, and more musical.
True Love Lies – Factory Theatre
By Trent
By Trent Scherer
True Love Lies
Brad Fraser’s newest play, True Love Lies about a father’s past coming back to change his family’s life, is opening the 40th anniversary season at Factory Theatre. After a well-received world premiere in London, England at the start of the year, Fraser’s play is a witty piece of writing.
The Canadian Comedy Awards have won me over
By Megan Mooney
By Megan Mooney
I wasn’t sure I wanted to trek all the way to Saint John for the Canadian Comedy Awards, but I’m glad I did.
This year is the 10th anniversary of the awards, and this has been a great way to celebrate that. The Imperial Theatre in Saint John is beautiful and provides a pomp and circumstance that the awards deserve.
In the world of arts awards, comedy often gets short shrift. It’s as though established awards don’t think that comedy is artful enough. Let me tell you though, comedy? Not an easy thing to pull off. There were an incredible number of very talented people nominated this year, and they worked their asses off to get there.
Nursery School Musical- Fence Post Productions
By Lucy
by Lucy Allen
Last night I found myself in somewhat of a miserable mood. Work was stressful as usual, I forgot money for the TTC ride home, and to top it off I was fighting a useless battle against a cold that’s filled my head with goo. Why am I boring you with these mundane (and gross) details? Because Nursury School Musical, currently playing at the Berkeley Street Theatre, made all of these things fly from my mind. Read the rest of this entry »
Jerry Springer, the Opera – Hart House
By Dana Lacey
By Dana Lacey
Jerry Springer-the Opera is tacky, cheesy and bound to offend you. In other words–go see this show. The premise: a man hosts a talk show that caters to the voyeur in us all. His lineup includes cheated lovers, secret fetishes and a women who just wants to follow her dream of dancing on a pole.
Goodness- Volcano Theatre
By Lucy
by Lucy Allen
“Why do good people rush to do evil?”
Michael Redhill seeks to answer this question in the newest incarnation of Volcano Theatre‘s Goodness, which opened last night at The Theatre Centre. Although the question is never truly answered, the intense journey and look into humanity’s complicated and bloody morality is one that will leave you questioning your own views. Read the rest of this entry »
The Zoo Story – Red One Theatre
By Crystal Wood
By Crystal Wood
Edward Albee’s first play The Zoo Story is a conversation between two strangers who meet on a park bench. So Red One Theatre decided to forego actually renting theatre space and carting around a bench prop, and is staging it on park benches across the city throughout September.
And it works. Okay, it mostly works, but the company can hardly be blamed for the Air Show flying overhead, can they? Read the rest of this entry »
LAYMAN GROUP SEEKS NEW PLAYS FOR TCG "FREE NIGHT" COLLABORATION
By Megan Mooney
From Press Release
Okay, so, this is an odd press release for me to publish here on Mooney on Theatre, since we’re basically about theatre in Toronto, and, at the very least, about theatre in Canada, but I’m intrigued by the idea of the Free Night of Theatre Campaign, so this caught my eye. How come we don’t have a free night of theatre campaign in Canada?
Anyway, if you have a play you want produced in Alabama, then check out the release below:
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The Layman Group is very proud to be joining the Theatre Communications Group’s very popular national FREE NIGHT OF THEATRE Campaign!!
This successful national audience development program was designed to attract new patrons to live theatre and give existing patrons access to venues they might not be familiar with. This fall, theatre-goers from coast to coast will be given the opportunity to attend performances presented by over 700 theatres, in more than 120 cities, completely free of charge.
With that, we are currently IN SEARCH of a dynamic, thought provoking theatre script to present as a live staged reading for this event! Spread the word to all your playwright friends!
Here are few guidelines:
1. Scripts from Alabama based playwrights are preferred, but ALL will be considered.
2. Scripts must not have been produced before.
3. Scripts must read longer than 45 mins.
4. One submission per playwright.
5. Casting will be handled/finalized by The Layman Group.
6. We are not accepting adaptations.
7. We are not accepting musicals.
8. Deadline to submit is Sept 10th.
The selected script will be announced by Sept 15th. The staged reading is targeted to go up between OCT 15th & Oct 31st.
Playwrights: This a great way to develop your script to full potential, as well as obtain some national recognition for your work!
Please send scripts in WORD or PDF format, with contact info and playwright bio to : public@thelaymangroup.org, with PLAY SUBMISSION as the subject.
We look forward to reading your work!!