Toronto Theatre Reviews

Reviews of productions based in Toronto – theatre includes traditional definitions of theatre, as well as dance, opera, comedy, performance art, spoken word performances, and more. Productions may be in-person, or remote productions streamed online on the Internet.

Scadding (Common Boots Theatre) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review

Photo of Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah by ​Zoë GemelliScadding by Common Boots Theatre is a site-specific collection of short audio plays inspired by the area around the Scadding Court Community Centre, the home of Postscript: the outdoor patio hub of the Toronto Fringe Festival. It’s an interesting piece of site-specific art but I’m not sure I’d really classify it as theatre. Continue reading Scadding (Common Boots Theatre) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review

Ether (White Mills Theatre Co.) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review

Photo of Esther Vlessing, Felicia Valenti, Jonathan Widdifield, Breanna Maloney, and Cassandra Davidson in Ether by Yuko Yamamori

Ether, currently playing at Toronto Fringe Festival, is a show about what happens in the space between being alive and being dead, that moment of breath between survival and your last one. The show is made up of three interconnected-ish vignettes where people are dealing with that moment between life and death. They all have moments where they wonder where they are, what’s going to happen to them, and re-enactments of what in their lives led them to the Ether.

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Unravelled – A New Musical (Chaos & Light) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review

photo of cast of Unravelled

“Romeo & Juliet,” “Orpheus & Eurydice,” and “The Gift Of The Magi” are brought together in this new musical by Andrew Seok. Toronto Fringe Festival presents Unravelled – A New Musical at Grace Toronto Church. With music in the style of “Les Miserables” and interwoven plot akin to “Into The Woods”, these 3 tales are reimagined to create an entirely new and epically romantic story.

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