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Gertrude & Alice Returns to Buddies – Sept 15 to Oct 7, 2017 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, September 19, 2018

by: in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Comedy, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, New York City, Pride, Queer, Toronto

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre kicks of its 40th anniversary season this September with the return of an audience favourite, Gertrude and Alice, originally co-produced by Buddies and the Independent Aunties in 2016. Critically-acclaimed, nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards (outstanding new play, performance – ensemble, and costume design), and recently published by Playwrights […]

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“The Predator” explodes back into action as a comedic Halloween gore fest

posted Saturday, September 15, 2018

by: in Art, Celebrity, Comedy, Entertaining, Film, Queer, Television, Toronto

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is in full swing, and some of the year’s most buzzworthy films are being debuted all across Canada’s largest city. As award season inches closer, the majority of these hot new motion pictures are in hopes of impressing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – Bradley Cooper […]

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It’s a crazy rich opening weekend for “Crazy Rich Asians”

posted Monday, August 20, 2018

by: in Art, Books, Celebrity, Comedy, Entertaining, Film

Crazy Rich Asians had a stellar opening week, snatching the top spot at the domestic box office! The posh comedy grossed an impressive $34 million in its opening weekend, knocking The Meg down a peg to number two (with just over $21 million). The top two movies in North America are not only fun summer […]

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Show Your Pride at The Drake Hotel in Toronto

posted Wednesday, June 20, 2018

by: in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Bar/Club, Charity, Comedy, Disability, Drag, Events, Fashion, Film, Gallery, Music, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

This LGBT-friendly boutique hotel in the heart of West Queen West is part of the expanding Drake experience, which includes other properties committed to the same arts-focused mission. The Drake is very invested in the community in which it is situated, and is actively involved in supporting Second Harvest and The Parkdale Food Bank to name […]

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Alan Cumming’s “Legal Immigrant” in Toronto – June 16, 2018

posted Tuesday, May 29, 2018

by: in Celebrity, Comedy, Events, Featured Events, Queer, Toronto

Tony Award-winning actor and activist Alan Cumming is many things to many people – Renaissance man, style icon, social activist, bon viveur – but to himself he is a storyteller and provocateur for hire. He became an American citizen in 2008, and Legal Immigrant is a cabaret of songs and stories about his life and loves in his adopted […]

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OASIS LOVE comes to QueerPride!

posted Wednesday, May 23, 2018

by: in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Comedy, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, New York City, Pride, Queer, Toronto

Just in time for Pride, Oasis Love returns to Toronto as part of Buddies In Bad Times Theatre’s QueerPride line-up! After a relationship gone bad, writer and performer Johnny Salib (Calpurnia, RAID: Operation SOAP) has teamed up with director/dramaturge extraordinaire Franny McCabe-Bennett (SMASHES! at We’re Funny That Way Comedy Festival in Toronto and the International […]

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Kathy Griffin to begin her “Laugh Your Head Off” tour in Canada May 23, 2018

posted Tuesday, May 22, 2018

by: in Comedy, Events, Featured Events, Theatre, Toronto

Due to the supportive response from her Canadian fans, comedian Kathy Griffin has confirmed an additional tour date to the “Laugh Your Head Off” World Tour, and will be kicking-off the North American leg of her tour in Ottawa,  on Wednesday, May 23rd. Following a successful run overseas including; New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, the U.K., […]

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Buddies Queer Pride – June 8 to 24, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, May 22, 2018

by: in Activism, Art, Bar/Club, Comedy, Dance, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Pride, Queer, Theatre, Toronto, Trans

Queer Pride is radical love and defiant self-expression. It’s a time when all of the queer communities come together to celebrate everything that we are and all that we can be. It is in this spirit that Queer Pride 2018 thrives – a festival of queer theatre, comedy, art, music, and parties that showcase our community’s […]

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Buddy Cole returns to stage May 26, 2018, part of United Comedy Festival (Toronto)

posted Sunday, May 20, 2018

by: in Celebrity, Comedy, Events, Featured Events, Queer, Toronto

Scott Thompson’s “Buddy Cole” will be coming out of the closet once again, for two exclusive appearances in Toronto this month. Lounge lizard Buddy Cole from Kids in the Hall makes a return to the limelight in an evening of humorous monologues from the period the show went off the air in 1995 to the […]

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“We’re Funny That Way” comedy festival – May 2 to 5, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, April 26, 2018

by: in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Comedy, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

After a triumphant and successful return from a five year hiatus, We’re Funny That Way the world’s original queer performance festival, is back with another stellar lineup of performers. Founded in 1997 as a comedy festival, We’re Funny That Way has hosted stars of today and tomorrow all the while acting as a fundraiser for LGBTQ charities across […]

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