posted Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Whenever composer John Cage was asked about his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham he would say ‘I Cook, He Does the Dishes.’ In fact they were a gay couple who remained together for more than 50 years. And oh — by the way — they also managed to create the American Avant-Garde. Their sexuality is […]
posted Thursday, March 8, 2018
Bygone Theatre has partnered with the Loot Collective to support their production of Joe Orton’s Loot, running March 8-17th, 2018 at the Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley St., Toronto. England, 1965: Only hours before her intended burial, the late Mrs. McLeavy is removed from her coffin by her son, Hal (Kevin Forster), and his best pal, Dennis […]
posted Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Tainted Justice, written by Don Nigro, is drawn from facts surrounding a real murder mystery on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, with flashbacks to the Klondike. It’s a compelling drama by the author of Ravenscroft (a hit of our 2008-9 season.) Pearl, a troubled young woman, is haunted by doubts about who actually murdered her father in the dark woods […]
posted Monday, February 12, 2018
The Humans introduces audiences to the Blake family. Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s lower Manhattan apartment. As darkness falls, and wine flows, tensions reach a boiling point, and the unspoken pressures facing the Blake clan simmer to the surface. The Humans presents a keenly observed reflection […]
posted Monday, February 12, 2018
NUIT ROSE celebrates its fifth year of LGBTQ Art and Performance during Toronto’s Pride Month, on Saturday June 16, 2018. There’s also a special fundraiser event happening on February 17th if you can’t wait until June. To date, Nuit Rose has presented 250+ artists and projects from Canada, the US, Mexico, Jamaica, Italy and Spain. Nuit Rose offers […]
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 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 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 […]
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