Just in time for All Hallow’s Eve, our pickings for cheap theatre this week is filled with frightful delights that’ll leave you screaming for more! (Hmn, over selling? I’ll scale it back.) From scary tales, ghoulish burlesque, super heroes & villains, and even puppets galore, there’s plenty of devilish theatre for everyone to enjoy. All on budget-friendly prices so you can save your pennies to build the perfect costume.
Continue reading Cheap Theatre for the Week of October 22nd 2013
360 Screenings is giving away a pair of tickets to their upcoming Halloween matinee screening on Saturday, October 26. The location will be announced via email the day before.
To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets just send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “360 Screenings Halloween Contest” by 7:00 pm on Thursday, October 24, 2013.
See below for details on the show and how the contest works:
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Here is what’s going on in Toronto theatre this week. There are several great shows to catch for the week of October 21st, 2013. ** Shows marked with the double asterisks and in red are the ones that make Wayne, our Managing Editor, wish he could exist in multiple parallel universes so he could check them all out.
Continue reading Eye-Catching Theatre for the Week of October 21st 2013
For the first time I found myself at Theatre Direct Studios for Alameda Theatre Company’s 2013 De Colores Festival of New Works. The space, for anyone else who hasn’t been there, is a beautiful cozy theatre in the Wychwood Barns, well suited for the intimacy of the evenings’ readings.
De Colores Festival is dedicated to providing a safe place for Latin American Canadian writers to develop new works. Each night of the festival a new script or two are read along with a short work by the Nueva Voz Youth Ensemble. On Thursday, Have You Lost Something? by Flavia Hevia, and Solaz by Jefferson Guzman were presented.
Continue reading Review: De Colores Festival of New Works (Alameda Theatre Company)
Double bills are often hard nights of theatre to sit through. They’re long, for starters, and they also ask the audience to suspend disbelief twice in a row, bring us from climax to conclusion only to do it all over again. Just as one story settles we’re thrown into the next.
One-man-shows can also be hard nights of theatre to sit through. It is more difficult for a single actor to create what many can. Listening to the same person talk for a whole hour is trying in any setting, in or out of the theatre.
Sterling Studio Theatre’s current double bill of one-(wo)man-shows Kuwaiti Moonshine and By A Thread makes for a demanding night of theatre.