This week’s Cheap Theatre is inspired by the power of expectation… and the power of life to throw a wrench in the best-laid plans. Things might go just as you expected, but knowing that that can change at any time is what makes life exciting! And you can get excited about paying only $25 or less to see any of the shows on this list! So what are you waiting for? Go enjoy some Cheap Theatre!
Continue reading Cheap Theatre for the Week of November 11th, 2014
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I at the Scarborough Village Theatre hits all the right notes. It’s no surprise that this colourful cast, made up of many kids who were dancing past bedtime, received a standing ovation.
In this 1860s story, British schoolteacher Anna (formidable Laurie Hurst) is tasked with educating the many children of the King of Siam (Richard Kwong). Anna and the King never let us down, singing their way through extreme cultural differences and making us laugh along the way. Continue reading Review: The King and I (Scarborough Music Theatre)
Mooney on Theatre is giving away two pairs of tickets to a performance of Burying Toni at Alumnae Theatre (70 Berkeley Street) as part of their Fireworks Festival on Wednesday, November 19 at 8 pm.
To be entered into the draw for one of the two pairs of tickets just send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Burying Toni” by 11:00 pm on Monday, November 17, 2014.
See below for details about the show and how the contest works:
Continue reading Ticket Contest Giveaway: Burying Toni (Alumnae Theatre’s Fireworks Festival)
It’s getting darker outside. You might be dealing with it perfectly well, but chances are that you – or someone you know – is feeling a bit down, a bit drained from the fact that winter is fast-approaching. Now’s the best time for you to brighten up your week with some theatre! Here’s what’s playing in Toronto this week. If it’s red and got two asterisks before it, our Managing Editor, Wayne, highly recommends it.
Continue reading Play Listings for the Week of November 10th, 2014
It’s funny how infrequently we think about the actual meaning of words that we use. For example, “uncanny” — like most people, I’ve spent the majority of my life taking it to mean “strange”, “weird”, or “unsettling” – and it does mean that. But last year I learned that its more proper definition is “perceiving something as both familiar and alien at the same time, making it uncomfortably strange”.
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, currently being performed by Echo Productions, takes the familiar characters of Charles M. Schulz’s iconic Peanuts comic strip (Charlie Brown, Sally, Linus, Lucy, etc. – although they’re never called by those names), and imagines how they’d grapple with the struggles of the modern high school experience. The effect is, as I suggest above, uncanny. It’s also surprisingly moving, and makes for a rewarding theatrical experience.
Continue reading Review: Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (Echo Productions)