Here is what’s going on in Toronto theatre this week. There are several great shows to catch for the week of November 5th, 2012: ** 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. Continue reading Eye-Catching Toronto Theatre for the Week of November 5th, 2012
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Review: Cream of Comedy (The Second City/The Tim Sims Encouragement Fund)
Stand up stand-up at The Second City’s Cream of Comedy emerging talent competition
What I love most about comedy is its basic belief in the potential for humour in everything. But comedy is a funny thing (pun intended!). While I wholeheartedly agree that everything can be laughed with/at, I think humour is a gator-harboring swamp that needs a skillful airboatswain to guide the rest of us through it. There’s a lot we just don’t know how to laugh at without being shown.
This is the role of the writer, the jester, the improviser, and at Second City’s Cream of Comedy, the comic. This event is a training ground for our new guides. These relatively young comics see the gators, they’re piloting the airboat, and they’re trying to point out all there is to see while keeping everyone from drowning in the muck. Continue reading Review: Cream of Comedy (The Second City/The Tim Sims Encouragement Fund)
Cheap Theatre in Toronto for the Week of October 15th, 2012
Five for Twenty (Or Less) (Or Free!)
Torontonians love Toronto. Our shifting cultural landscape is passionately self-propelled. We talk about our city, we write and read about our city, our mayor (even if we don’t necessarily love him) makes his way into our graffiti and butter sculpting. Toronto art seems intrinsically linked to the city it comes from – we’re one of our own favorite muses. This week for very cheap, and often for free, you can explore this relationship, and combine your love of theatre with your love of this great city. Each piece in this week’s cheap trend is Toronto specific; revisiting stories of our past, lifting the veils on our present, and exploring how we can make our future here even better. Continue reading Cheap Theatre in Toronto for the Week of October 15th, 2012
Eye-Catching Toronto Theatre for the Week of October 15th, 2012
Here is what’s going on in Toronto theatre this week. There are several great shows to catch for the week of October 15th, 2012: ** 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. Continue reading Eye-Catching Toronto Theatre for the Week of October 15th, 2012
Factory Theatre’s 2012-13 Season is Revitalized
From Press Release
TORONTO, ON… Interim Artistic Team members Nina Lee Aquino and Nigel Shawn Williams today announced Factory Theatre’s revitalized 2012-13 season, sponsored by BMO Financial Group.
“We are excited to present programming that honours the company’s long-standing mandate of producing powerful Canadian theatre. This season’s wide theatrical spectrum embraces two world premieres of plays developed in-house, Stopheart by Amy Lee Lavoie and Every Letter Counts by Nina Lee Aquino, and two exciting projects – SummerWorks Festival (Toronto) stand-out Iceland by Nicolas Billon and, in the Studio Theatre, PuSh Festival (Vancouver) hit Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata by Bill Richardson and Veda Hille, a co-production with Acting Up Stage Company. We want to extend a warm welcome to all of this season’s artists and audiences, old and new. This is a challenging and fruitful time to build new relationships and cement old ones and, together with you, we hope to build a strong future for Factory.”
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