As part of the Sears Ontario Drama Festival, one play written by a student is selected to be workshopped and given a staged reading with professional actors and director. This year’s winner, Callum Hutchinson’s politically charged Fighting with Monsters, is playing the Factory Theatre Rehearsal Hall as part of the 2015 Toronto SummerWorks Festival.
In trying to describe a natural force outside the bounds of human comprehension, one poet managed to inspire generations. Niágara: a Pan-American Story by Propeller Arts Projects with PANAMANIA, playing at the Ada Slaight Hall is a love-story, a history lesson, and a meditation on nature and poetry that is gorgeous, moving, and memorable.
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Ever want to take a quick tour of Toronto? Take in a Jays game and visit the CN Tower in twenty minutes? Shed No More by Two Idiots with Masks playing at the The Fringe Club as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival take the audience on a romantic date through various Toronto locales. The show is a chaotic mess in its twenty minute rush from scene to scene but that doesn’t mean it’s not a ton of fun. Continue reading Shed No More (Two Idiots with Masks) 2015 Toronto Shed Show Review
What inspires us about various historical figures? Yeats: A Ceremony of Innocence playing at the Robert Gill Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival is a one-man show about the life of William Butler Yeats. Unfortunately, its passionate attempt to offer an insight into Yeats delivered what I found to be an exhausting and unfocused presentation.
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It’s hard being famous. It’s harder being famous siblings. In The Famous Haydell Sisters Comeback Tour playing at the Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, we learn about the rise to fame and the inevitable fall, with a bunch of great songs in-between.