Rhubarb Festival’s 40th Anniversary at Buddies – Feb 13 to 23, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Monday, February 11, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Canada’s longest-running new works festival returns for its 40th year! 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 your favourite […]

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“Hair”, 50 years later – on stage Jan 18 to Feb 2, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, January 15, 2019

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

Hair, the original rock musical, celebrates its 50th anniversary at a time of new-found social justice movements and civil unrest. When a tribe of freedom-loving hippies is confronted with the realities of war and an oppressive government hell-bent on conflict, they become even more committed to their ideals of freedom, liberty from social shackles and […]

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Ross Petty Productions presents “The Wizard of Oz” – on now until January 5, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, December 6, 2018

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

This is what so many Toronto theatre lovers, young and old, wait for every year. Ross Petty Productions presents THE WIZARD OF OZ – The Toto-ly Twistered Family Musical. Strapping on the famous ruby slippers will be Camille Eanga Selenge (The Book of Mormon / Broadway and Australia), as the adventure-bound and homesick Dorothy. Swept up from their home […]

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“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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