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Last September Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Why Not Theatre, and TheatreRUN took the Toronto theatre scene by storm with their smash-hit production Spent. In fact, the production was such a success it garnered 3 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations (including outstanding production and outstanding new play) and went on to win for best performance by an ensemble in a featured role.

Due to popular demand Spent is returning to the Factory Studio Theatre on Friday, October 29, 2010, on the 81^st anniversary of Black Tuesday. Fittingly enough, the piece is an intelligent, hilarious and poetic commentary on greed and the financial crisis of 2008.

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By Adelina Fabiano

Mysteries and Mayhem at Toronto’s Theatre Centre

If you are looking for a show to set you in the mood for this year’s upcoming Halloween, then Madhouse Variations, produced by Eldritch theatre at the Theatre Centre is the one to see. Inspired by stories from three of Horror’s great writing masters: H.P. Lovecraft, E.T.A. Hoffman and Algernon Blackwood, this trilogy of terror will do more than just ignite the senses!

Set in the suburb of Kobol Hollow in the dreary Ravenscrag Asylum, two inmates re-enact the lives and histories of three infamous patients uncovering the evil power of the “Necronomicon.” Highly creative, superbly written, and brilliantly performed, puppet theatre has taken on a whole new meaning! Continue reading Review: Madhouse Variations (Eldritch Theatre) →

by Jenna Rocca

The Canadian Opera Company’s presentation of Aida for the first time in 25 years is the example of opera at its best. Based on a French text by Camille du Locle, taken from a scenario by Auguste Mariette, it is considered by many to be Giuseppe Verdi‘s masterpiece, with the libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. It was first presented in 1871.

Following the class defying relationship between the great Egyptian warrior Radames and the servant Aida, the plot examines the internal conflict between romantic love and familial love; devotion to the heart or to the homeland. Continue reading Review: Aida (The Canadian Opera Company) →

By Crystal Wood

Do you happen to enjoy fun?  Then, you owe it to yourself to see Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, the Musical, which officially opened at the Princess of Wales Theatre last night.

You may be familiar with this story of three drag queens crossing the Australian desert from the 1994 movie, but let me assure you, the movie will not prepare you for the level of bubble-gum entertainment you are about to witness.  From the moment the lights dim and the disco ball rises, you’re in for 2.5 hours of hot pink and 80’s pop.

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In a couple days (Thursday, October 28) a new multi-disciplinary performance piece exploring the meaning of ‘home’ will open in the Theatre Passe Muraille backspace.  The piece, called Homeland, is an interplay of fiction and reality, scripted fictional performance interacting with documentary film.

It’s a snapshot of our lives, divided between two or more worlds.

Homeland is described as a multi-faceted examination of the meaning of home in a hybrid setting of dance, live music and documentary film. The spoken, and at times unspoken, words of the personalities in the film are translated into a solo dance and physical theatre against the beat of drums and flow of electronic sequences performed by two musicians on stage. This contemplative journey of words, sounds, and movements, makes one rethink the definition of home.

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