LOT brings Anything Goes to the stage, delivering a night of pizzazz to Toronto audiences
What do you do when the girl of your dreams decides to marry someone else? Why, stow away aboard her cruise ship and enlist the help of a lovable gangster and an evangelist turned lounge singer to split them up of course. And so begins Anything Goes, the 1934 musical by Cole Porter. The Lower Ossington Theatre‘s (LOT) 2016 production used period singing, costumes, and dancing to take us right into the glamorous style of the dirty 30’s. Continue reading Review: Anything Goes (Lower Ossington Theatre)→
The Two-Character Play is difficult but rewarding, now on stage in Toronto
The Two-Character Play is such a play — so metatheatrical, so self-referential, so muddy and grey and inclined to squint at its audience — that it almost defies description. In simple terms, your reading of its plot and message will depend heavily upon what you bring to the performance.
But there are, unquestionably, two siblings riven equally by trauma and folie à deux. There is a play within the play, and there is a hostile world from which the only escape is a two-storey house with veritable blockades of sunflowers. The rest, gentle reader, is up to you. Continue reading Review: The Two-Character Play (Good Old Neon)→
Toronto’s Red Sandcastle Theatre presents an evening of one acts with “something for everyone”
When you are experimenting with new works and going to present them in front of an audience, boy am I ever glad it’s in a one act format. Threesome: An Evening of One Acts playing at The Red Sandcastle Theatre claims to have something for everyone. This is true. Unfortunately though, everything is not for everyone.
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre is gearing up to present the 37th Rhubarb Festival from February 17th to February 28th 2016. The Rhubarb Festival is Canada’s longest running new-works festival, featuring performances from both emerging and established artists in theatre, music, performance dance and art.
Rhubarb has set up multiple nightly performances with experimentation at its core, so that each night is unique and entertaining.
All the shows are so diverse we’ve casting off the need for a theme and just presenting you with five inexpensive and intriguing shows. From festivals to folktales to Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, we have a wide variety of options to choose from, all of which you’ll be able to experience for $25 dollars or less. That’s manageable, right? Check ’em out under the cut! Continue reading Cheap Theatre in Toronto the Week of February 15th, 2016→
LOT brings Anything Goes to the stage, delivering a night of pizzazz to Toronto audiences
The Two-Character Play is difficult but rewarding, now on stage in Toronto
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre