Second City Toronto debuts its Fall mainstage sketch comedy revue Click Bait & Switch

It’s that time of year again; as the leaves start feeling the icy grip of fall approaching and start changing colour in some desperate attempt to give their short lives meaning, Second City has opened up their Fall Revue, Click Bait & Switch, for sketch comedy and improv fans alike to enjoy in the Second City mainstage theatre.

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Theatre la Tangente presents Claude Guilmain’s play Americandream.ca in Toronto

Americandream.ca by Theatre la Tangente begins on an empty stage at the Glendon Theatre at the York University campus. The stage is surrounded by three white walls. Music begins and panels of the walls open up like doors. Actors walk from the darkness and onto the stage, their shadows plastered on the white panels. Their entrances are mysterious, giving the audience the work to figure out the context of the scene through images and videos rippling against the walls. It’s a confusing start, but it kept me waiting to find the other pieces to the puzzle. Continue reading Review: Americandream.ca (Theatre la Tangente) →

Bicycle Opera brings Shadow Box to Toronto

As I locked my bicycle to a pole outside of Curbside Cycle, the venue hosting tonight’s performance of The Bicycle Opera’s Shadow Box it occurred to me: I’ve never seen an opera before! This show, about memories – happy, tragic, sad – and our relationships to them, was an excellent first experience. Continue reading Shadow Box (the bicycle opera project) →

Toronto’s Scapegoat Collective presents Jeremy Taylors darkly comedic play Big Plans

The are a lot of things to love about independent in Toronto. Right now Big Plans – playing at Storefront Theatre – is one of them. It’s a perfectly polished gem of a show; an example of what happens when you have a really good script (Jeremy Taylor), really talented actors (Andy Trithardt, Daniel Pagett, and Maria Riscossa) and a really great director (Kat Sandler).

Spoilers follow. You may want to stop reading now and buy tickets to see the show. It’s an evening of terrific theatre and I’m going to gush through the rest of the review. Continue reading Review: Big Plans (Scapegoat Collective) →