All posts by Mike Anderson

Mike was that kid who walked into the high school stage crew booth, saw the lighting board, and went ooooooooooooh. Now that he’s (mostly) all grown up, Mike keeps his foot in the door as a community-theatre producer, stage manager and administrator. In the audience, he’s a tremendous sucker for satire and parody, for improvisational and sketch-driven comedy, for farce and pantomime, and for cabaret of all types. His happiest Toronto theatrical memory is (re) Birth: E. E. Cummings in Song.

What Are You Supposed To Be (All Day I Dream About… Theatre) 2021 Toronto Fringe Review

Promo image from "What Are You Supposed To Be?"

What Are You Supposed To Be? (playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival) turns upon the events at a backyard princess party. The birthday girl is awfully mature, the parents are behaving oddly, the location is eerily convenient for the star attraction — and before the afternoon winds down, Rapunzel will confront a dilemma they certainly wouldn’t put in a Disney movie. Continue reading What Are You Supposed To Be (All Day I Dream About… Theatre) 2021 Toronto Fringe Review →

A Totally Sick Online Show (Looe Box Media) 2021 Toronto Fringe Review

Benjamin Liddell and Lucas Carravetta in a promo image from A Totally Sick Online Show

In A Totally Sick Online Show (playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival), co-creators Benjamin Liddell and Lucas Carravetta explore a specific idea: an awful lot of pop culture is just white guys jerking around, often without even the pretense that anything entertaining is going to happen. Podcasts where nobodies discuss nothing; vapid late-nite TV; YouTube content built for an algorithm instead of an audience; Jordan Peterson. Continue reading A Totally Sick Online Show (Looe Box Media) 2021 Toronto Fringe Review →

In Waking Life (Spicy Day) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review

Photo of actors In Waking Life

Hello, my new friend! Would you be interested in an exciting new book club? Because I have got good news for you, my friend! In Waking Life (playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival) is definitely an exciting new book club, and definitely not a hilarious and memorable group seance with two of the best mediums you’ll ever meet. What’s more, it is one of the very best book clubs you’ll see at the festival! Do not miss it, for their finger sandwiches are unforgettable!

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