Live theatre shows in Toronto with ticket prices of $25 or less, playing the week of June 13th, 2017. Perfect for the budget-conscious theatre-goer. For your wallet-conscious viewing pleasure this week, we’ve selected some Black woman magic, an Ojibway lens on Turtle Island, Shakespeare, and much more! Check them out below the cut:
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Canada, clowns, and classics are the main themes on Toronto stages this week! We’ve got our editor Lin on hand to pick out a few shows which caught her attention, listed in red. Check them out below the cut:
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The Lavender Railroad has “incredible chemistry” in a “tense little play”, on stage in TorontoThe question of who we save, and why we save them haunts In-The-Moment Theatre’s The Lavender Railroad, playing at The Box Theatre. Despite its heavy-handed title, this is not a show that takes its subject matter lightly, but instead tries to understand how a dark-mirror world could or would inform the traditional values people hold dear.
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One of the things I love about writing for Mooney on Theatre is that I often get to learn about new venues, new companies, or new parts of the city. The Civic Light–Opera Company is a community theatre group based in the northeast end of the city. Their production of Brigadoon at the Zion Cultural Centre allowed me to do all three. Overall, I thought the company delivered a fine performance. It was fun to revisit an old favourite in a new (to me) setting.
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Improvised musical arrives on the Toronto stageEarlier this year, I reviewed a Fringe show that promised a completely improvised musical over the course of one hour after just one suggestion from the audience. Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is that show writ large; instead of an accomplished local comedy troupe, the accomplished performers (The Showstoppers) are here on tour from England; instead of one suggestion, they incorporate several over the course of the evening; instead of a Fringe space, they must fill the cavernous Panasonic Theatre, and instead of one hour, they run a bit over two with intermission.
However, their challenge is the same: can they tell a complete story without leaving too many loose threads? Can they make catchy, harmonic music of varying styles, while rhyming? Can they run the gamut from The Sound of Music to Hamilton on the audience’s whim? Showstopper! does a great job with its constraints, it’s loads of fun, and it’s pretty easy on the ears.
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