The Toronto Fringe Festival runs a yearly festival called Next Stage Theatre Festival (NSTF), which they bill as “12 days of Canada’s best indie theatre.” There’s a wide variety of shows playing at the festival, and we’ve reviewed all of them! Check out our coverage below to find out more about the shows playing and to see our reviews.
Cue6 presents Evan Linder’s racially-charged family drama Byhalia, Mississippi in Toronto
Byhalia, Mississippi is a resonating and intense work of art that had me gasping on the edge of my chair. Lines from this charged play by Evan Linder keep echoing in my mind.
Shows That Caught Our Eye in Toronto the Week of January 11th, 2015
From big Mirvish shows to works in progress, there’s a lot of diversity in this new batch of shows, and we’re not even finished with the Next Stage Theatre Festival yet! As usual, the red text gives you a hint of what we’re most excited about. Check it out under the cut:
Red Light Winter, on stage at Unit 102 in Toronto, features engaging writing, strong performances
Red Light Winter, a play by Adam Rapp that was shortlisted for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (no prize was awarded that year), gets a powerful, stylish and heartfelt Toronto production at Unit 102, directed by Anne Van Leeuwen. The show features engaging writing and strong, even outstanding performances. It also sometimes mistakes bleakness for depth.
The Gay Heritage Project engages Toronto audiences, on stage at Buddies in Bad Times
As a gay in my early 40s who has been out for 25 years now, I have begun to notice that my primary affinities are not necessarily with other people of my chronological age, but people who are the same queer age. I came out in the era of ACT UP and Queer Nation, chained myself to buildings and sat in on major thoroughfares; I remember television without a single LGBTQ-identified character and life before Gay/Straight Alliances were a thing.
As a piece, The Gay Heritage Project at Buddies In Bad Times moved me particularly and profoundly in part because I remember – I remember when coming out necessarily meant joining a multi-generational community; I remember when we danced all night and went right to direct actions still smelling like the club and the home fries of afterwards. I am not sure that my memories are what made me love this show so wholeheartedly, though.
The Toronto Fringe Festival runs a yearly festival called Next Stage Theatre Festival (NSTF), which they bill as “12 days of Canada’s best indie theatre.” There’s a wide variety of shows playing at the festival, and we’ve reviewed all of them! Check out our coverage below to find out more about the shows playing and to see our reviews.
Cue6 presents Evan Linder’s racially-charged family drama Byhalia, Mississippi in Toronto
