“Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations” – on stage until November 17, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, October 11, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Theatre, Toronto

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations plays a strictly limited pre-Broadway engagement on stage until November 17 at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre. Before The Temptations became the greatest R&B group of all time (Billboard Magazine, 2017), they were just five young guys on the streets of Detroit. After getting discovered by Berry Gordy and signed to […]

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Rendezvous with Madness – Where Art, Film & Minds Meet – Oct 10 to 21, 2018

posted Tuesday, October 9, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Charity, Disability, Events, Featured Events, Film, Music, Outdoors, Photography, Theatre, Toronto

FESTIVAL OPENS ON WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY WITH THE TORONTO PREMIERE OF CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY FEATURE THE SONG AND THE SORROW, ABOUT LEGENDARY CANADIAN SONGWRITER GENE MACLELLAN In July, the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival, the first and largest mental health film festival in the world, announced that it was dropping “film” from its title, and evolving into its next twenty-five […]

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“Love me out of it” – choreographed dance meets punk rock – Oct 11 to 20, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, October 9, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Dance, Events, Featured Events, Music, Theatre, Toronto

Set to the iconic music from the “Frantic City” album by Canadian punk band Teenage Head, the World Premiere of “Love me out of it” explores Laurence Lemieux’s long relationship to dance through various characters that come to life with every song from this classic 10-track release.  It’s presented by Citadel + Compagnie as part of the […]

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Heathers: The Musical – on stage Sept 21 to Oct 6, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, September 19, 2018

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

Opening the season on September 21, Hart House Theatre presents a musical that is “so very” with a dark side that is “grody to the max”, Heathers: The Musical. Based upon the iconic film of the same name, Heathers: The Musical tells the tale of mean girls and murderous vengeance between outcasts and the popular in-crowd. With a twisted, pitch-black […]

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Crimes of the Heart – on stage at Village Playhouse until Sept 29, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, September 12, 2018

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

The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, and Babe Magrath is having a bad day. She didn’t like the way her husband looked, so she shot him. Needless to say, he’s not too happy about it. Now out on bail, Babe reunites with her two sisters to make sense of their most recent misfortunes. Meg is back […]

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Gay Play Day – Sept 7 and 8, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, September 4, 2018

by: Darren Stewart-Jones in Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Toronto’s annual Gay Play Day LGBTQ theatre festival is celebrating its 7th anniversary of queer theatre at the Alumnae Theatre studio space on September 7th and 8th. This year, we have two completely unique blocks of shows encompassing 8 plays in total. This year’s festival features short plays by Tina McCulloch, Philip Cairns and Steven Jackson, […]

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The Beaver – Inclusivity is the Heart of West Queer West

posted Monday, July 23, 2018

by: SK Dyment in Activism, Art, Bar/Club, Drag, Events, Music, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

The Beaver is a great place to party with friends in the evenings or bring your kids for lunch by day. The food is decent and affordable and the bar is well-stocked. The Beaver was first started and co-owned by Lee’s Palace Manager Lynn McNeill and Will Munro, the latter a Toronto artist and DJ […]

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Porch View Dances – July 18 to 22, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Monday, July 16, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Dance, Events, Featured Events, Outdoors, Theatre, Toronto

Porch View Dances (PVD) is a unique and family friendly on-site production that showcases real people dancing in real spaces. It’s a community dance festival that engages everyday people as creators, storytellers, and performers. PVD takes audiences on a walking tour of Seaton Village in the Annex of Toronto, to witness new dance works created […]

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Canadian Stage presents “Shakespeare in High Park” on stage until Sept 2nd, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Friday, July 13, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Events, Family, Featured Events, Outdoors, Theatre, Toronto

Canadian Stage is proud to announce that Shakespeare in High Park will mark 36 seasons of staging open-air theatre in Toronto with adventurous contemporary adaptations of two of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays: the tragic romance Romeo and Juliet and the frolicking comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, running in repertory under the stars from June 28 […]

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Brave: Festival of Risk and Failure – July 12 to 29, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, July 11, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Celebrity, Events, Family, Featured Events, Film, Music, Outdoors, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

The Harbourfront Centre is launching a new festival that will push the boundaries of what it means to be brave. Presenting some of the world’s most courageous and outlandish artists, thinkers, writers and musicians, the inaugural BRAVE: The Festival of Risk and Failure asks the question: If all we have to fear is fear itself, […]

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