Cliff Cardinal stuns as a storyteller in Cliff Cardinal’s CBC Special, now playing at the 2019 SummerWorks Festival. Presented by Imaginary Force and Cutline, the show delivers a melodic, soulful evening of powerful folk songs and stories, woven together with dark humor and expansive heart.
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Safe and Sorry by Lester Trips (Theatre) is playing at the 2019 SummerWorks Festival. It’s a surreal descent into the dark, nebulous online communities surrounding pickup artistry, and manages moments of frightening hilarity and quiet reflection.
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CHILD-ISH, a work-in-progress play by Sunny Drake and The CHILD-ISH Collective is playing at the 2019 SummerWorks Festival. If you’re missing school over the summer, or the child-like wonder of your youth, this one’s for you. It’s fun, silly, earnest and heartfelt, and gives voice to the unbridled curiosity and wisdom of children.
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Dauntless City Theatre presents All’s Well That Ends Well as a walk through Berczy ParkDauntless City Theatre presented a dreamy, outdoor staging of William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well in Berczy Park, in Toronto’s fittingly historic St. Lawrence neighbourhood. Dauntless City’s adaptation was a treat for the eyes, heart and feet, and offered a beautifully queer re-imagining of the Bard’s famous play.
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Rodney DeCroo gives a tour de force performance in Didn’t Hurt, his solo show now playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, directed by TJ Dawe. Courageously baring the bloody guts of decades-long trauma on stage, DeCroo delivers a master class in enduring, and learning to live with complex PTSD.
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Fourth Gorgon Theatre has executed a soul stirring, sublime production of Molly Bloom, now playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival.
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Dandelion, the newest production by Aaron Malkin and Alastair Knowles, the duo behind James & Jamesy, is playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Continue reading Dandelion (James & Jamesy) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review
Ouvrez la Porte, Fermez la Bouche is a touching melody on the struggles of new beginnings and the slow dance of striking it out on your own, now playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Continue reading Ouvrez La Porte, Fermez La Bouche (FMV Theatre Co) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review
The Ballad of Frank Allen is playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival and it’s a zany, musical funhouse. The premise, which concerns what happens when one man lives in another man’s beard, zigzags into unexpected — but wonderful — territory. It’s a story of a science experiment gone astray, of boy meets girl, of heartbreak and struggle, and ultimately, of learning to lean on our friends through the hairy parts of life.
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