Toronto comedian Ashley Botting remounts her delightful musical improv Fringe showIt’s hard to articulate a show like Ashley with a “Y” playing at the Bad Dog Theatre. Musical improv that changes with every show, totally dependent on the talent and charisma of one woman and her pianist, sounds like it could be the lead up to, well, one heck of a joke.
And it pretty much lives up to its punchlines.
A bad day at work ends not with a bang but a whimper in Convergence Theatre’s Athabasca playing at the Toronto Carpet Factory as part of the 2019 Next Stage Theatre Festival.
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Scorch dazzles on the Toronto stage with questions about gender and justiceSometimes a show is just great: the set, the direction, the actor, are amazing. That’s exactly what Bustle & Beast Theatre Company with Blarney Production’s Scorch playing at the Theatre Pass Muraille Backspace is: great. As a result, please allow me to count the ways Scorch is a must-see show for 2018.
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Toronto’s French-language theatre stages a new production of Pierre de Marivaux’s playI think, sometimes, shows fall into that awkward place between comfortable and predictable. TheThéâtre français’s La Seconde surprise de l’amour/The Second Surprise of Love playing at the Berkeley Street Theatre is an eighteenth-century romantic comedy that plays out exactly as you expect. Continue reading La Seconde surprise de l’amour (Théâtre français)
Obsidian Theatre’s “pitch perfect” musical play Oraltorio: A Theatrical Mixtape takes the stage in TorontoYou ever see a show that hits all the right notes? Obsidian Theatre Company’s Oraltorio: A Theatrical Mixtape playing at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts is just that: a pitch perfect performance.
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