This week, we’re giving you a choice: do you go in for Shakespeare, or are you looking for something a little different? Here are a few of the Shakespeare-themed events going on in the city this week, alongside a few shows that don’t relate to him at all! It’s all about affordable variety this week, so check the picks out under the cut! Continue reading Cheap Theatre in Toronto the Week of April 18th
The Archivist is, quite literally, a memory play. Onstage now at the Theatre Centre, and produced by Why Not Theatre, Shaista Latif guides the audience through her memories. She interacts with us and with her past, creating a dialogue with many voices and perspectives. In Latif’s disjointed but always coherent narrative, the only questions worth asking are those that can either be immediately and concretely answered or cannot be answered at all. Continue reading Review: The Archivist (Why Not Theatre)
As we approach the day of Shakespeare’s death, there are a lot of intriguing and unique shows getting ready to honour the bard. If he’s not your thing, there are still plenty of other shows opening this week that should grab your attention. This week, our editor Mike is here to select his picks in red under the cut! Continue reading Playlistings in Toronto for the Week of April 18th
Frolick stages a compulsively watchable Cowboy Mouth as a “happening” in TorontoI’m going to be completely honest, and perhaps depressingly square, here: though I have nothing against them, I have never taken hallucinogenic drugs. Perhaps that’s what I was missing in Frolick Theatre’s mounting of Cowboy Mouth, Sam Shepard and Patti Smith’s 1971 one-act, which bills itself as a “happening,” with all that entails. Continue reading Review: Cowboy Mouth (Frolick)
Alumnae Theatre presents Brad Walton’s new play, The Dialogues of Leopold and Loeb, in TorontoThe Dialogues of Leopold and Loeb, a new play by Brad Walton playing at Alumnae Theatre, follows the personal relationship between prodigies turned murderers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. While the subject matter garners interest, the script and performances were stiff and the duration of the play was unnecessarily long.
Continue reading Review: The Dialogues of Leopold and Loeb (Alumnae Theatre)