I faced a dilemma when it came to reviewing The Baby playing at the The Storefront Theatre. Do I watch the original film or give writer and director Dan Spurgeon’s adaptation of Abe Polsky’s script virgin eyes? I decided to eschew the film, as this is the second production of Spurgeon’s adaptation, and I have no doubt it won’t be the last.
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Playhouse Productions brings Old Jews Telling Jokes, a fast-paced comedy show, to Toronto“Well,” I quipped to my date as we arrived to the Randolph Theatre to join a sparse, mid-week crowd for Old Jews Telling Jokes, “this certainly will be old Jews hearing jokes.” Which more or less encapsulated the mood of the show, overall – a somewhat schtick-y, alarmingly fast-paced series of Jewish jokes, told by some old Jews and some younger Jews to a group of people who seemed very pleased just to hear some good old-fashioned borscht-belt humor. While I was glad for them, I privately wished for more.
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Out of all the new shows opening this week, there’s a surprising amount of historical shows on the docket. So this week our theme is ‘back in time’! Whether it’s a specific past or just time in general, these shows have a lot to say about both past and present. This week, we also have a special Halloween-themed wild card pick. Check them out under the cut! Continue reading Cheap Theatre in Toronto the Week of October 19th
As we inch closer and closer to Halloween, the spooky shows are just around the corner. In the meantime, we’re here to highlight those shows running this week that we’d most like to see in red text. Here are the picks:
Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre remounts its update of Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the PeopleIt’s hard to ignore the truth but it’s easy to bury it. That’s part of the problem in An Enemy of the People playing at Tarragon Theatre; a timely show that attempts to engage its audience in big ideas with some success and some failure.
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