Big league sketch troupes took to the stage in one of the final days of the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival
The Comedy Bar was packed as hordes of comedy-ravenous theatregoers descended the steps for one of the final nights of the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. Arriving with my friend Paul, an old-school sketch and improv performer himself, we milled around the crowd before finding our seats for our triple bill of the evening — Ladystache, The Majors, and Alley of Nightmares.
A woman comes to terms with her dying mother in The Carousel at Toronto’s Berkeley Street Theatre
Theatre is such an intense and fleeting phenomenon. It is pure magic when that cynical rug is pulled out from under us and we topple, heart first, into someone’s life. Such was my experience of Nightwood Theatre’s production of The Carousel, currently playing at the Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs.
An unnamed woman stays at the bedside of her dying mother. Sitting there, she shares with us a journey through her past, reflecting upon the behavioral patterns that echo through generations. Continue reading Review: The Carousel (Nightwood Theatre)→
Toronto’s Second City returns with Sixteen Scandals, their spring mainstage revue
Sixteen Scandals, the latest concoction down at The Second City‘s Mercer Street madhouse, is everything a comedy revue ought to be: snappy, witty, wacky, topical, fast-paced and very, very funny. On opening night, the laughter from the back row alone was shaking the foundations and frightening the pigeons.
And this show’s unique Toronto focus is especially refreshing. The Second City is one of our city’s most under-appreciated theatrical institutions: something we know about, but something we associate with tourists and corporate parties and station wagons full of Red Hat Ladies who want a few laughs but need to be in bed by eleven. That this show is so freewheeling and tight in its focus makes this an unusually good time to make the trip down King Street, if you’ve been putting it off.
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Gavin Crawford brings his signature top-notch impressions to the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival
The Gavin Crawford show at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival started twenty minutes late, but the venue sold beer and cookies, so it was a pleasant wait. When he did appear onstage it was in the persona of Kathleen Wynne, which I loved because I am a political junkie and because he really did look a lot like her. Granted, Crawford is quite the chameleon who almost eerily becomes the person he is spoofing, but Wynne seems a particularly perfect character for him. It’s also particularly apt for Ontario’s first lesbian premier to feature in a show as gay as this.
