Five Shows Under $25 in Toronto this Week
TIFF is getting out-of-line expensive, but we have you covered on a budget, with much shorter lines:
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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Playlistings in Toronto the Week of September 14th, 2015
Shows That Caught Our Eyes in Toronto the Week of September 14th, 2015
While the weather is anyone’s guess, we do hope that you’ve had a chance to see some outdoor performances this summer. Fall is in full swing on Toronto’s stages, with a plethora of choices. We’ve highlighted those we’d most like to see in red text. Here are the picks:
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Review: Life As A Pomegranate (Dawna J. Wightman)
Dawna J. Wightman returns to Toronto with her tour de force solo play Life As A Pomegranate
What is your truth? Dawna J. Wightman implores us to consider it with her play Life As A Pomegranate. She greets us with this question as she greets us on stage at the Red Sandcastle Theatre, and then delivers a performance of pure energy and pure honesty.
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Review: Happy Place (Soulpepper)
Happy Place takes on mental illness with a contemporary spin on the Toronto stage
This is one of those plays that I think everyone has to see at least once. Or preferably twice, so as to really hear all the nuances in playwright and performer Pamela Mala Sinha’s snappy, fast-paced writing. The tragically comedic Happy Place, from Soulpepper Theatre, takes a decidedly more contemporary, heart-felt look at mental illness.
Review: Blind Date (Tarragon)
Among audience members in the packed Tarragon lobby for Blind Date on opening night, there was a palpable buzz among the men as it became clear to anyone who hadn’t heard that one of the men in the audience would shortly be chosen to spend the following ninety-odd minutes onstage. With the performer. Creating (as creator and performer Rebecca Northan quipped) a “new Canadian play.” If I hadn’t been tagged as a reviewer, and therefore off limits, I freely confess that I would have been nervous too.