Everything to do with the Next Stage Festival which happens in January in Toronto
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As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Theatre Brouhaha presents LoveSexMoney
You want it. You need it. Would you pay for it? After a sold-out run at the Factory Studio last winter, Theatre Brouhaha presents LOVESEXMONEY by Kat Sandler, a sexy, fast-paced new play about intimacy in the Information Age. Olivia sells her virginity online. Simon buys it. Jim, her boyfriend, tries to stop her. Continue reading LoveSexMoney – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release
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As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Allison Beula Productions presents The Tiki Bikini Beach Paradise Party A-Go-Go!
An ultra enthusiastic, hyper-speed a-go-go keen teen musical that is a loving parody of the Beach Party movies of the 1960’s. A triple threat cast, a live vintage surf band (“The von Drats”) and original tunes written by Composer Jeffery Straker and Director/Choreographer Allison Beula round out the beach party fun! Patrons’ Pick at the 2011 Toronto Fringe and presented at the Best of the Fringe Uptown. Continue reading The Tiki Bikini Beach Paradise Party A-Go-Go! – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release
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As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Ecce Homo Theatre presents Loving a Stranger or How to Recognize an Invert
Award winning company Ecce Homo Theatre (Of a Monstrous Child: a gaga musical, The Pastor Phelps Project) present an updated remount of Alistair Newton’s Loving the Stranger or how to recognize an invert based on the incredible life story of Montreal’s Peter Flinsch: theatre designer, visual artist, and survivor of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, arrested in 1942 for kissing a friend at a Christmas party. Continue reading Loving the Stranger or How to Recognize an Invert – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release
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As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Beyond Boundaries presents Living with Henry
Featured as part of the Best of Fringe Uptown 2011, Living With Henry is a new musical drama that explores the fear, complications and realities of living with HIV/AIDS today. Though it is no longer a death sentence, the once carefree Michael must learn to come to terms with living with his chronic condition to gain a much deeper understanding of self and the complex world around him.
Acclaimed for its honesty, boldness and inventiveness, NOW Magazine gives Living With Henry 5 N’s and states, “This fully staged chamber musical, imaginatively directed by Donna Marie Baratta, seems already primed for a professional run. Told through songs – sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking – the show has the ring of authenticity and the six-person cast gives passionate, committed performances.” Continue reading Living with Henry – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release
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THE NEXT STAGE OF DREAMING:
Montreal’s Uncalled For Bring Their Sleeper Hit
Hypnogogic Logic to the Next Stage Theatre Festival
TORONTO WAKE UP! Montreal’s premiere comedy troupe Uncalled For tickle your frontal lobe with their award-winning creation Hypnogogic Logic; an energetic, refreshingly intelligent and endlessly hilarious trip through the world of dreams. The show is one of 8 plays invited to perform at the 2012 Next Stage Theatre Festival, Toronto’s fastest-growing theatre event. Uncalled For Presents: Hypnogogic Logic runs from January 5–15 at the Factory Theatre Mainspace.
The company’s fifth scripted show, Hypnogogic Logic won Uncalled For their second Just For Laughs Award for the best comedy at the Montreal Fringe. The show is a clever, charming and tightly constructed exploration of the hypnogogic; the hallucinatory state between waking and sleeping. In Uncalled For’s rich collective imagination, that mental state becomes an absurd and inspired dreamscape, filled with dictionary preachers, post-apocalyptic cooking shows, ticklish piano teachers and a reincarnated Freddie Mercury. Continue reading Hypnogogic Logic – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release