Same as last week, we’re mixing our Next Stage Theatre Festival picks with some non-festival fare to give you a sense of what’s going on in the city for theatre this week! The one thing they’ve all got in common is their budget-friendly price tag. Take a look under the cut: Continue reading Cheap Theatre in Toronto the Week of January 11th
The Toronto Fringe Festival runs a yearly festival called Next Stage Theatre Festival (NSTF), which they bill as “12 days of Canada’s best indie theatre.” 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 read all of our reviews at once, click right here.
Or follow the links below to individual reviews:
Continue reading 2016 Next Stage Theatre Festival Review Index
Cue6 presents Evan Linder’s racially-charged family drama Byhalia, Mississippi in TorontoByhalia, Mississippi is a resonating and intense work of art that had me gasping on the edge of my chair. Lines from this charged play by Evan Linder keep echoing in my mind.
Playing at The Storefront Theatre in Toronto just steps from Ossington subway station, Byhalia, Mississippi also recently premiered in Chicago, Memphis and Charleston, along with staged readings in Birmingham, Boulder and Los Angeles. I’m looking forward to the multi-city online conversation at wpconvo.com that will take place on January 18. It’s a rich, multi-layered story with a lot of historical baggage that calls for discussion. Continue reading Review: Byhalia, Mississippi (Cue6 Productions)
From big Mirvish shows to works in progress, there’s a lot of diversity in this new batch of shows, and we’re not even finished with the Next Stage Theatre Festival yet! As usual, the red text gives you a hint of what we’re most excited about. Check it out under the cut:
Red Light Winter, a play by Adam Rapp that was shortlisted for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (no prize was awarded that year), gets a powerful, stylish and heartfelt Toronto production at Unit 102, directed by Anne Van Leeuwen. The show features engaging writing and strong, even outstanding performances. It also sometimes mistakes bleakness for depth.
Continue reading Review: Red Light Winter (Unit 102 Actor’s Company)