Five For Twenty (or Less)
There’s some great cheap live theatre this week for under $20 a ticket. Our picks include a famous musical, a satirical comedy, a play about Christmas in New York, an opera based on mayor Rob Ford, and a play by Euripedes. Now there are no excuses to stay home on a Friday night. Check it out!
Continue reading Cheap Theatre in Toronto for the Week of January 16, 2012
Here is what’s going on in Toronto theatre this week. There are several great shows to catch for the week of January 16, 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.
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Robert Lepage is an internationally-acclaimed theatre director from Quebec known for his unusual and spellbinding use of technology. Written by Lepage and Marie Michaud, this play is a sequel to their Dragon’s Trilogy.
There are only three actors in the production, all with unique personalities. It follows the story of a Quebecoise man named Pierre who lives in China and faces conflict with two women – “one from his Western past and one from his Asian present,” as described by the Mirvish press release. Continue reading Review: The Blue Dragon (Mirvish)
This week of January 2nd there is a theatre festival called the Next Stage Theatre Festival that will be running some of its most popular shows from last summer’s Toronto Fringe Festival. The 2012 Next Stage Theatre Festival runs January 4-15 at Factory Theatre. Tickets are only $12 to $15 each, so make sure you kick off the new year with some cheap but amazing theatre!
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From Press Release
As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Rooftop Productions presents Tomasso’s Party
Tomasso’s Party, by young novelist Jules Lewis (Waiting for Ricky Tantrum, Dundurn Press), holds a microscope up to conventional ideas of intimacy through the nuanced exploration of a simple circumstance involving a young couple: Madeleine wants to go to Tomasso’s party; Hugo does not.
Continue reading Tomasso’s Party – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release