The Youth/Elders Project tackles issues affecting the LGBTQIA community, on stage in Toronto

In partnership with The 519 and the Senior Pride Network, Buddies in Bad Times has put LGBTQIA people under 25 and over 55 together in a yearlong process to create this show, The Youth/Elders Project. The results are sincere and charming, if a bit patchy.  Continue reading Review: The Youth/Elders Project (Buddies In Bad Times) →

Powerplays over dinner play out on the Toronto stage

Better, I think, to watch Dinner with Goebbels than to actually have dinner with the Nazi Minister of Propaganda. What about dinner with Karl Rove, the creator of the War on Terror? Or Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, know as the father of public relations? You can see the three of them in an imagined dinner in The Estelle Craig ACT II STUDIO‘s production  at Aki Studio. Continue reading Review: Dinner with Goebbels (The Estelle Craig ACT II STUDIO) →

Office Hours is a hilarious collection of vignettes playing at the Papermill Theatre in Toronto

Office Hours is a hoot that’s brilliantly written and dynamically performed. Playing at Toronto’s Papermill Theatre, this collection of six workplace vignettes occur in the same city on a Friday afternoon, and they are cleverly connected by a ledge-jumper, a dead horse, a steamy book, a statue needing a loin cloth and, most notably, a “Week at a Glance” agenda. You’ll surely get a kick out of this comedy by Canadian playwright Norm Foster.  Continue reading Review: Office Hours (East Side Players) →