Everything to do with the Next Stage Festival which happens in January in Toronto
There is a punchline to Circle Circle’s A Man Walks into a Bar playing at the Factory Theatre Studio as part of the Next Stage Theatre Festival. But it’s more like a gut-punch: it hits low, it hits hard, and it hits close to home. And everybody needs to see it.
Continue reading 2016 Next Stage Theatre Festival Review: A Man Walks into a Bar (Circle Circle)
In the first few minutes of Three Men in a Boat, three upper-class twits make a promise: the show we’re about to see is utterly devoid of merit or intellectual sustenance, and exists strictly and exclusively to entertain.
And as they venture up the Thames, they do just that, filling the hour with clockwork-choreography movement, tightly-written scenes, lovely teamwork, and recurring musical elements. Three Men (based on a real period travelogue) is an hour-deep pocket full of Wildean humour, and will tickle you in places you didn’t know you had funny bones.
Continue reading 2016 Next Stage Theatre Festival Review: Three Men in a Boat (Pea Green Theatre)
The Toronto Fringe Festival runs a yearly festival called Next Stage Theatre Festival (NSTF), which they bill as “12 days of the best indie theatre in Canada”. 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. A full festival schedule is available here.
If you want to access all of our reviews at once, click right here.
Or follow the links below to individual reviews:
Continue reading 2015 Next Stage Theatre Festival Review Index
DINK, playing at the Next Stage Theatre Festival, is an ambitious attempt to meld social satire with surreal theatricality in a musical loosely based on the horrific true tale of Russell Williams. Continue reading 2015 Next Stage Festival Review: DINK (Theatre a-go-go)
Jon Lachlan Steward’s one-man show, Big Shot, is stunning. I chose it because I thought the description sounded interesting, but I had no idea what a captivating seventy-five minutes lay in wait for me at the Factory Theatre Studio. As a lover of theatre, cinema, and fragmented narrative, this was a treat for me. If you’re considering anything from the Next Stage Festival this year, you must not miss this! Continue reading 2015 Next Stage Festival Review: Big Shot (Surreal SoReal Theatre)