Welcome the upcoming fall season with a laugh in your gut and money in your pocket. This week, Toronto’s theatre scene is serving up a myriad of performances from drama to stand-up to live dance for the theatre-goer on a budget. Take a look at what’s happening this week!
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The BFF Variety Hour is “bright, bubbly and fun,” now playing at the Comedy Bar!The BFF Variety Hour, Susan Waycik’s new rotating-guest show at Comedy Bar, is a mix of stand-up, solo sketch comedy, singing, dance and magic, all wrapped in a cozy cocoon of ‘90s friendship-necklace nostalgia and scored by a soundtrack including Britney Spears, the Spice Girls, and, of course, Vitamin C’s seminal “Graduation (Friends Forever).”
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Are you a “stay out of the drama” type? This week, Mooney on Theatre recommends otherwise. Stages across Toronto are sinking their teeth into meaty pieces that attack a broad emotional spectrum.
Classics by dramatist staples like Harold Pinter and Tennessee Williams perform, along with new works and some musicals and comedy for much-needed relief. Read on to see what’s in store! Our Assistant Editor Jen has marked what she’d really love to see in Red.
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Hart House Theatre kicks off its 100th season with Encounters at the “Edge of the Woods”, a devised performance curated and directed by Jill Carter.
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Soulpepper Theatre presents Harold Pinter’s Betrayal to Toronto audiencesHarold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. In 2005, Pinter won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Betrayal is one of his most celebrated plays with productions around the world. And now Soulpepper, one of Toronto’s longstanding theatre companies, offers us their own production. Continue reading Review: Betrayal (Soulpepper)