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 […]
posted Friday, January 12, 2018
From playwright Dave Deveau (Nelly Boy, Tiny Replicas (GayVancouver’s Top 10 Productions of 2011), the Jessie and Oscar Wilde Nominated My Funny Valentine enters the minds of people on the fringes of a murder that will forever affect them and examines the ripple effect of hatred in a community. Haunting, moving, and at times strangely […]
posted Thursday, January 11, 2018
The opening of Pleasure Dome’s Winter 2018 season begins with the launch event for Andrew James Paterson‘s new book, Not Joy Division, hard-boiled mystery novella cast in a post-punk social media glow. It is being published by Eldon Garnet’s Impulse B press. To celebrate Pleasure Dome is throwing a party that will feature Andy’s group Derwatt, […]
posted Thursday, January 11, 2018
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story premieres Wednesday, Jan. 17 at 10 p.m. ET on FX. A dangerous obsession becomes an unthinkable tragedy in the nine-episode, second installment of Ryan Murphy’s critically acclaimed and award-winning anthology series. Iconic fashion designer Gianni Versace (Ramirez) is killed on the steps of his Miami home by serial murderer Andrew Cunanan (Criss) – […]
posted Friday, January 5, 2018
MUSIC FROM PEOPLE CITY TORONTO’S MUSICAL UNDERGROUNDS This all-ages, pay-what-you-can concert and exhibition includes a multi-room visual tour of select moments in Toronto’s alt-music history: subcultures, milieu, and happenings from 1970s to the present. Revisit our city’s DIY past alongside its most exciting emerging scenes. This project is a part of Myseum Presents: Music from People City, a city-wide celebration […]
posted Friday, January 5, 2018
I had never seen Eastsiders when theBUZZ asked me to review the brand-new third season (new on Netflix in January 2018). The premise seemed overdone and typical if I’m being honest, but Eastsiders is said to be an unapologetically homosexual television series known not to shy away from stereotypes while smashing them at the same time. […]
posted Friday, January 5, 2018
David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts screens as part of Cineplex Events’ In The Gallery series in select theatres across Canada on January 25. Widely considered Britain’s most popular artist, David Hockney is a global sensation with exhibitions in London, New York, Paris and beyond, attracting millions of visitors worldwide. Now entering his […]
posted Thursday, January 4, 2018
Returning to Canadian Stage for the third time in as many seasons, acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist Jordan Tannahill writes and directs a new world premiere creation, Declarations, onstage at the Berkeley Street Downstairs Theatre until February 11. Snapshot review below. An ode to mortality – that of the playwright’s mother, his own, mankind’s Declarations is a joyful and moving attempt to capture the […]
posted Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre have announced their first round of 2018 theatre productions, and if these are any indication of what’s to come, this is going to be another stellar year at Toronto’s entertainment queer-plex See below for a brief description of each new work, then click through to get your tickets in advance […]
posted Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Canada’s longest-running new works festival returns for its 39th year this February. For two weeks, The Rhubarb Festival transforms Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre into a hotbed of experimentation, exploring new possibilities in theatre, dance, comedy, music, installation, and performance art. Rhubarb is the place to experience the most adventurous ideas in performance and catch […]
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