For A Good Time, Call Kathy Blanchard is playing at Factory Theatre for this year’s Next Stage Theatre Festival. Part farce, part family drama, it is wholly satisfying on both counts: this is a story that grapples with broken marriages, mental and physical illness, failed dreams, and hockey. Continue reading 2015 Next Stage Festival Review: For a Good Time, Call Kathy Blanchard (Outside Inside)
The Templeton Philharmonic, aka Toronto-based sketch comedy duo Briana Templeton and Gwynne Phillips, present their new equestrian-themed show Unbridled & Unstable at this year’s Next Stage Theatre Festival.
Graham Clark Reads from the Phonebook is currently playing at the Factory Theatre as part of Next Stage Festival 2015. With a title like that, you’re probably expecting it to be either terrible or very clever. It’s not nearly as clever as I expected, but it’s certainly not terrible. I had a good time and the thirty minutes flew by. Continue reading 2015 Next Stage Festival Review: Graham Clark Reads the Phonebook (Laugh Gallery)
Jasmine Fyffe Dance’s Pulse, a contemporary dance show set to the music of Motown, is the show filling the dance slot in this years’ edition of the Toronto Fringe’s Next Stage Theatre Festival. Motown is an enduringly popular genre of music and its soulful grooves make it a natural choice to explore in a dance show.
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Over the first week of January the Comedy Bar presented their annual Festival of New Formats; a 5-day event of free theatre where sketch troupes, improv teams and stand-up comics pitched their ideas for new shows to be showcased at what could be argued is one of Toronto’s foremost locations for improvisational and sketch comedy. Sadly, I was only able to see the final night of the festival, but if what I saw was anything to go by the Comedy Bar is sure to have some exciting new shows in the near future.
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