TIFF’s annual Boombox party fundraiser, featuring Drag Battle, Cirque du Soleil, and more! – Oct 31, 2019

posted Monday, October 28, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Charity, Drag, Events, Fashion, Featured Events, Music, Queer, Toronto

On October 31, TIFF Bell Lightbox welcomes back boombox, Toronto’s finest Halloween bash. This year’s event will be an all-out Heroes vs. Villains battle, featuring imaginative creators, interactive installations, and a special performance from Cirque du Soleil’s Alegría. Be you a scoundrel or a saviour, a superhero or a supervillain, TIFF invites you to don your Halloween […]

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RuPaul’s Drag Race: Werq The World tour returns to Toronto – October 17 & 28 2019

posted Saturday, October 12, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Celebrity, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Queer, Toronto

The Official RuPaul’s Drag Race World Tour returns with an all new production for 2019, with a second date added in Toronto after the first sold out! Mission leader Michelle Visage is on a journey to save the universe with the help of her intergalactic queens. The queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race must save the galaxy in their […]

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“Canada’s Drag Race” judges announced, including Toronto’s Brooke Lynn Hytes

posted Thursday, September 26, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Celebrity, Drag, Queer, Television, Toronto

The judges have been announced for Season 1 of Crave’s new original series CANADA’S DRAG RACE. Still no date announced for the premiere episode. For the herstorical first season, drag artists will have to slay the DRAG RACE stage in front of a dynamic and diverse panel of judges, including uber-popular Brooke Lynn Hytes; actor […]

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ScrapFest – A Night of South Asian Queer / Alt Culture Rock and Roll – Sept 28, 2019 (Mississauga)

posted Tuesday, September 24, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, Queer

ScrapFest is a multicultural, immigrant friendly indie music series showcasing alternative artists with varied geopolitical backgrounds and a common outsider perspective. The platform seeks to bridge cultural differences by showcasing artists with a shared queer inclusive narrative. Actually, we just want to have to have fun. “Live loud queer and proud. The future is in full […]

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Queer Stage Mothers: Thom Fitzgerald & Brad Hennig

posted Thursday, August 29, 2019

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

For the upcoming issue of AutumnPlay, I spoke with Thom Fitzgerald who was in LA working on his upcoming film, Stage Mother, which stars Jacki Weaver, Lucy Liu, and Adrian Grenier among others. The plot follows a conservative church choir director who inherits a drag club in San Francisco started by her deceased son, from whom she was estranged after he came out as gay. “Even […]

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SLANG: Tom Hearn’s solo sketch show – August 8, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, August 6, 2019

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

If you took all the best of the We’re Funny That Way Festival, you’d wind up with something very close to Tom Hearn’s latest offering, SLANG, a queer solo sketch comedy tour. Original over-the-top stand-up monologues, hyperbolic sketches, and satirical parodies all written by Tom Hearn, whose character impersonations are as funny as they are […]

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Two different stage productions of Rocky Horror Show coming to Toronto this fall

posted Monday, July 29, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Drag, Events, Featured Events, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Rocky Horror Show fans can rejoice in knowing there are two productions in the works set to hit Toronto stages this fall. Smack your lips, gird your loins and tighten your corset for The Rocky Horror Show, as it returns to Hart House Theatre, Sept 27 to Oct 12, 2019. A delectable, cult-classic musical with unforgettable characters and […]

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“The Queen” screens at Drag Brunch, with a performance by Fontaine – July 28, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, July 25, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Drag, Events, Featured Events, Film, Queer, Toronto

Hot Docs is celebrating the herstory of drag this month with a special Drag Brunch event. On Sunday, July 28,the 1968 drag documentary The Queen, will be shown. This film is considered the mother of all drag documentaries, going behind-the-scenes of the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant. Prior to the screening, guests can enjoy mimosas and snacks, along with a […]

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Drag Race Canada now accepting auditions for Season 1

posted Tuesday, July 9, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Celebrity, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Pride, Queer, Toronto

The time has come for Canadian Queens to don their fiercest flannel realness and serve up Canadian charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent as Crave announced today that casting for the original series CRAVE’S DRAG RACE CANADA (werking-title) is now underway. Beginning July 9, Canada’s best drag artists can find more details here on how to enter for their […]

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Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical – On Stage Oct 4 to Nov 3, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Friday, July 5, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Dance, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, Pride, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

If you haven’t heard of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, then hand in your gay card. The film is a hilarious adventure of three drag friends who hop aboard a battered old bus bound for the Australian Outback to put on the show of a lifetime. Their epic journey is a heart-warming story of self-discovery, […]

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