posted Saturday, February 3, 2018
Midnight Returns: The Story of Billy Hayes explores the making of the cult classic Academy Award winning film Midnight Express, as well as the international controversy it started with Turkey and the true story around Billy Hayes‘ infamous imprisonment for drug smuggling. This documentary of sorts looks at both the emotional and political power of Midnight […]
posted Monday, January 29, 2018
The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692/93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government ostracized people for being communists. The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway on January […]
posted Thursday, January 25, 2018
As the administer for the K.M. Hunter Foundation, Sarah Hunter is well known in the charitable community for her support of arts, culture, the environment and HIV/AIDS. In Sarah’s off hours she is a dedicated full-time artist whose work is as beautiful as it is provocative. In 2008 she began what was to become her […]
posted Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Nightwood Theatre and Sulong Theatre present, Calpurnia, a provocative look at class, race, and family dynamics under the roof of a wealthy Jamaican-Canadian home. As Julie, a screenwriter, seeks to redress To Kill a Mockingbird through the perspective of Calpurnia (the Finch family maid) by updating the context to include millennial ideology and terminology, she is met […]
posted Saturday, January 20, 2018
The Village Playhouse is located in Toronto’s Bloor West Village, and has three remaining productions before concluding their 2017/18 season. The theatre is quite intimate, and have been presenting award winning shows for several decades, some directly from stagings in New York City. Located just east of Runnymede subway station on Bloor Street, it’s easily […]
posted Friday, January 19, 2018
For anyone who hasn’t heard yet, Call Me By Your Name, is one of the most talked about films of 2017/18, and Oscar buzzing for Best Picture as well. And for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, there are two unique screening opportunities that are happening at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox. Snapshot review below. […]
posted Friday, January 19, 2018
The Church/Wellesley Village was once the crowning jewel of gay Toronto, but in recent years our venues have moved out to other areas of the city. Some argue that as we lose the close concertation of LGBT spaces we forgo a certain amount of power and safety as a community, but the flip side is […]
posted Thursday, January 18, 2018
Progress is an international festival of performance and ideas presented in partnership by SummerWorks Performance Festival and The Theatre Centre. The festival is collectively curated and produced by a series of Toronto-based companies, operating within a contemporary performance context. This year, the festival is Curated by: SummerWorks Performance Festival, The Theatre Centre, Anandam Dancetheatre, FADO Performance […]
posted Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Coal Mine Theatre presents their first ever Coal Mine Concert, the world premiere of RUMOURS by Fleetwood Mac, February 4-25, 2018 at the intimate Coal Mine Theatre. Ted Dykstra, Coal Mine Co-Chief Engineer and RUMOURS creative guide, has assembled a local group of musicians to play the album live in order from start to finish. “Two years-ago I was driving around […]
posted Monday, January 15, 2018
Come Up to My Room (CUTMR) is the Gladstone Hotel’s annual 4-day alternative design exhibition. Each year CUTMR provides artists and designers the opportunity to take risks, to push their ideas, to evoke meaning not just function. CUTMR 2018 explores how people interact with art and design. Is it a shared experience mediated by an artist or designer? Or […]
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