Yearly Archives: 2010

Five for Twenty (or Less)

by Leanne Milech

Our mission at Mooney on Theatre is to make theatre more accessible, which is just one of the reasons we are over-the-moon excited about this weekly post: we get giddy helping people find their way to local Toronto theatre, especially when it’s high quality entertainment on a budget!  This week, we’ve uncovered a secret code that gives you a cost-efficient edge on theatre-going, two pay-what-you-can laugh-ins, an edgy, experimental theatre festival and a poetry play, all for twenty dollars or less.

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Go see Attack of the One Man Shows on Tuesday! (one night only! Act now! Other infomercial type phrases!)

by Megan Mooney

On Tuesday March 9, 2010, at the Supermarket in Kensington Market you have the opportunity to see two one-man shows for $10.  Basically you’re getting two-for-one.  And the one is very reasonably priced…

The two shows are:  Nile Seguin’s Fear of a Brown Planet and Gavin Stephens’ Spectacular! Spectacular! and the event is being put together by Nerdgasm Comedy

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Toronto theatre contest -win a pair of tickets to My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding

contestwebgraphicgenericDo you like hilarious musicals? If you didn’t have the chance to see My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding at last year’s fringe festival, then your in for a treat!

This Thursday be the lucky 13th person to contact us at contests@mooneyontheatre.com quoting the subject line My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, for your chance to win a pair of tickets to this Thursday night’s performance at the Panasonic Theatre.

Based on a true story written by David Hein and Irene Carl Sankoff MMLJWW will be playing until March 21st every Tuesday through Thursday at 8:00pm, Saturday shows at 5:00pm and 7:00pm, and Sundays at 7:00pm. Tickets are $25-$60 and can be purchased at 416-872-121 or by going to Ticket King.

For more information about this play read the reveiw by Leanne Milech below or visit My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding.

Good Luck!

New Ideas Festival

By Leanne Milech

The New Ideas Festival is almost here!  Alumnae Theatre Company is presenting its 22nd annual festival of new writing, works-in-progress and experimental theatre over three exciting weeks spanning from March 10 until March 27.  The works being performed were all selected for the festival by a blind jury, meaning the jury wasn’t aware of the writers’ identities until after the selections had been made.  This makes for unique plays curated solely on the merit of the works submitted.  Festival goers are sure to be treated to three very different – but equally interesting – weeks of new ideas.  To learn more about the festival and the short scripts selected for this year’s performances, read on.

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My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding – Mirvish

By Leanne Milech

MMLJWW

My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding or MMLJWW for short, is, to put it bluntly, colossal Canadian yummyness.

After an amazing run at the 2009 Fringe Festival, Mooney on Theatre writer Sam Mooney raved about MMLJWW in her review of the show.  After Fringe, Mirvish swiftly picked MMLJWW up and extended its run as long as it possibly could before it had to make room for a previously scheduled production. During that run, our very own editor, Megan Mooney, reviewed the show, professing her love for the production just as earnestly as our first reviewer did.

Indeed, Mirvish chose wisely when it decided to pick up this touching true love story of Claire, played by Lisa Horner, and Jane, played by Rosemary Doyle, two middle-aged women who fall for each other.

As a lesbian and a Jew, I had actually been a tad skeptical about this show: could they really pull off the whole lesbian thing without making all of the usual stereotypes and without being cliché or boringly political?

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