Live theatre shows in Toronto with ticket prices of $25 or less, playing the week of September 17th, 2018. All of these shows are perfect for the budget-conscious theatre enthusiast, so beat the end-of-summer blues by taking in some quality theatre!
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A cult leader’s funeral is the setting for a new musical by Toronto’s Anika and Britta JohnsonThere’s definitely an air of mystery around Dr. Silver: A Celebration of Life; a new, immersively-staged musical taking over Heliconian Hall in the heart of Yorkville. The casual theatre-goer would be forgiven if they had no clue what Dr. Silver was about from the show’s deliberately sparse website which only hints that it centres on the funeral of a charismatic nouveau-spiritual leader and doesn’t really provide much more detail than that. Continue reading Review: Dr. Silver: A Celebration of Life (Outside the March/The Musical Stage Company)
Get over you post TIFF blues by checking out some of the awesome theatre around the city. MoT has you covered with some excellent options, guaranteeing something for every sort of theatre-goer! My top picks are in red if you are looking for any suggestions!
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I Call myself Princess, Jani Lauzon’s “play with opera,” is now playing at Toronto’s Aki StudioWritten by Jani Lauzon, I Call myself Princess is a powerful, captivating play that addresses Indigenous identity and culture. Playing at Toronto’s Aki Studio, this musical performance is above all an eye-opener.
Live theatre shows in Toronto with ticket prices of $25 or less, playing the week of September 10th, 2018. All of these shows are perfect for the budget-conscious theatre enthusiast, so beat the end-of-summer blues by taking in some quality theatre!
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Kick September off right by heading into Toronto for some quality theatre! MoT has you covered with recommendations for every kind of theatre-goer!
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Toronto’s Cue6 Theatre presents Ruby Rae Spiegel play taking on teen abortionCue6 Theatre’s production of Dry Land opened on Friday at The Assembly Theatre. Playwright Ruby Rae Spiegel was only 21 when the play was first produced. One of the things that motivated her was reading an article about the rise of DIY abortions. Given the changes to the laws in the U.S. over the past few years it’s a timely topic. It’s one we can’t afford to ignore here either. Unfortunately.
This makes it sound as if Dry Land is a political play. It isn’t. The publicity says it’s a play about “abortion, female friendship, and resiliency“. It’s funny, and agonizing, and wonderful. My friend Marg and I both loved it. Continue reading Review: Dry Land (Cue6 Theatre)
Gay Play Day is Toronto’s festival of theatre featuring work by LGBTQ playwrightsGay Play Day, hosted by Alumnae Theatre and now in its seventh year, is a play festival focused on premiering work by LGBTQ playwrights and on LGBTQ themes. There are two programs, presented at different times, which seem to be structured to appeal to different audiences.
Pink, comprised of Fade to Black, Labels, Diamonds on Plastic, and Point and Click skews toward an older, more conventional audience with more traditionally structured work; one play nostalgically venerates Old Hollywood, and in another, a shopaholic, drunken Southern belle monologist (Margaret Lamarre, tearing up Philip Cairns’ Diamonds on Plastic) is right out of a slightly crasser Tennessee Williams play. Lavender, made up of I’ve Just Seen a Face, Missed Connections, The End is the Beginning and Coming Clean, feels a lot younger and a little more chaotic and fun, much of it an evolution of standup or sketch comedy.
Playwright Kaitlyn Riordan had Shakespeare’s women—or lack thereof— on her mind when she constructed Portia’s Julius Caesar for Shakespeare in the Ruff playing in Withrow Park. She decided to create “a new Shakespearean play where we meet all kinds of women” using a mixture of Shakespear’s language from plays, sonnets, poetry and her own writing.
The result is an attempt to flesh out women’s roles that doesn’t quite succeed for me in the execution.
Continue reading Review: Portia’s Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Ruff)
Live theatre shows in Toronto with ticket prices of $25 or less, playing the week of September 3rd, 2018. All of these shows are perfect for the budget-conscious theatre enthusiast, so finish off the summer by taking in some top notch theatre without breaking the bank!
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