This week’s edition of Cheap Theatre has four instead of five shows for you to watch that cost under $20. The week’s theme is plays based on classical works by William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde. If you’re looking for something different to do on date night, here are some great shows you can see.
The 2011 Dora Mavor Moore Awards were held last night at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. The Doras are held annually by TAPA to honour excellence in Toronto’s performing arts industry.
I once had a conversation with a theatre producer who had produced shows in New York, L.A. and Chicago as well as Toronto in which he observed, “Toronto is unique in that it’s a city that’s large enough to have a theatre industry but still small enough to have a real theatre community.”
The Doras also provide an opportunity for that theatre community to come together to celebrate the achievements of the Toronto performing arts industry as a whole. In a time when government cutbacks are threatening to stifle the growth of Toronto’s thriving theatre scene, coming together to boldly celebrate their achievements and their collective passion for creating art is almost an act of defiance. Continue reading 32nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners→
SummerWorks, Toronto’s Indie Theatre and Arts Festival, posted the following message on their blog today.
Heritage Canada has chosen not renew its partnership with SummerWorks for this year’s festival leading to a loss of 20% of the festival’s budget.
Mooney on Theatre strongly believes that SummerWorks provides an invaluable contribution to the development of the theatre and arts scenes in Toronto and nationally.
Please consider lending your support so SummerWorks can continue to do its important work in developing emerging theatre and arts in Canada.
Here’s what’s going on in Toronto theatre this week. Get out there and see a show during the week of June 27th, 2011:
** Shows marked with the double asterisks and in red are the ones that make Wayne, our managing editor, wish he could exist in multiple parallel universes so he could check them all out.
As part of the TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL QUOI QUOI QUOI
Presents VIRGINIA ALDRIDGE, BSc Written and directed by Elise Newman
After last year’s hit Raven for a Lark, quoi quoi quoi returns to the Fringe with VIRGINIA ALDRIDGE, BSc, a comic tale of adventure.
Janelle Hanna stars as Virginia, a self-proclaimed biologist/adventurer who drops everything and flies to Cameroon, determined to follow in the footsteps of her childhood hero, the Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley. But will Virginia ever find the courage to leave her hotel room?
