A Few Shows in Toronto under $25 the Week of Sep 8, 2015
On a budget? You won’t be left wanting this week with these choices:
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Review: Click Bait & Switch (The Second City Toronto)
Second City Toronto debuts its Fall mainstage sketch comedy revue Click Bait & Switch
It’s that time of year again; as the leaves start feeling the icy grip of fall approaching and start changing colour in some desperate attempt to give their short lives meaning, Second City has opened up their Fall Revue, Click Bait & Switch, for sketch comedy and improv fans alike to enjoy in the Second City mainstage theatre.
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Playlistings for the Week of September 7th, 2015
Shows That Caught Our Eyes in Toronto the Week of September 7th, 2015
Don’t want to let go of summer yet? Neither do we. This week brings you choices of a more modernist variety, such as stories inspired by real life, and others that could have been so based. We’ve highlighted those we’d most like to see in red text. Here are the picks:
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Review: Americandream.ca (Theatre la Tangente)
Theatre la Tangente presents Claude Guilmain’s play Americandream.ca in Toronto
Americandream.ca by Theatre la Tangente begins on an empty stage at the Glendon Theatre at the York University campus. The stage is surrounded by three white walls. Music begins and panels of the walls open up like doors. Actors walk from the darkness and onto the stage, their shadows plastered on the white panels. Their entrances are mysterious, giving the audience the work to figure out the context of the scene through images and videos rippling against the walls. It’s a confusing start, but it kept me waiting to find the other pieces to the puzzle. Continue reading Review: Americandream.ca (Theatre la Tangente)
Shadow Box (the bicycle opera project)
Bicycle Opera brings Shadow Box to Toronto
As I locked my bicycle to a pole outside of Curbside Cycle, the venue hosting tonight’s performance of The Bicycle Opera’s Shadow Box it occurred to me: I’ve never seen an opera before! This show, about memories – happy, tragic, sad – and our relationships to them, was an excellent first experience. Continue reading Shadow Box (the bicycle opera project)