posted Tuesday, March 14, 2017
“A City” is presented as a gallery installation or tableaux vivant, an intimate, personal study of four artists/friends who tell the story of a famous friend who died under mysterious circumstances, and how he transformed them. The story is revealed through direct address in a disarmingly casual atmosphere, as if the audience were eavesdropping on […]
posted Thursday, March 9, 2017
Based on the original novel Madame Sousatzka, written by Bernice Rubens, SOUSATZKA is set in London, England in 1982 and tells the story of a musical prodigy torn between two powerful women from vastly different worlds: his mother, a political refugee from South Africa and his piano teacher, a brilliant eccentric with a shattered past. These two proud, iconoclastic […]
posted Thursday, March 9, 2017
The world premiere of The Man Who Married Himself, created by Juliet Palmer and Anna Chatterton, a masque inspired by Indian and Baroque traditions, featuring choreography by Hari Krishnan. Inspired by an Indian folk tale, The Man Who Married Himself considers ideas of sexual identity. Dancers Jelani Ade-Lam and Sze-Yang Ade-Lam are proud members of the queer community who explore and […]
posted Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Some of My Most Favourite People is Gene Kelly, but I guess I share that love with millions of people throughout the world, and over many decades. Gene is Hollywood as Hollywood can be, and is one of the most influential people on the making of film. So when I was approached for an opportunity […]
posted Wednesday, February 8, 2017
MY NIGHT WITH REG originally premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1994, and now its getting its Canadian premiere at the Panasonic Theatre in Toronto. The story begins in the summer of 1985. Old friends and new gather to party through the night. What they don’t realize is that their world is about to change forever. […]
posted Friday, February 3, 2017
Mirvish Productions is bringing the new all-Canadian production of Saturday Night Fever – The Musical, to the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, for a limited engagement run from February 7 to 12, 2017. The story of Tony, the talented young guy in a dead-end job from Brooklyn who wants to dance his way to a […]
posted Wednesday, January 25, 2017
The Boys Are Back in Town! Five years to the exact day of their last appearance in Toronto, the internationally acclaimed all-male comic ballet company, LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO returns to Toronto with their breathtaking blend of technical prowess, athletic artistry and perfect parody. For this Toronto engagement, THE TROCKS repertoire will include one […]
posted Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Passing Strange is a bold coming of age story told through sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. In the late 1970s, a black teen is driven from Los Angeles to Amsterdam and Berlin in search of himself and a place to call home. Fusing punk rock, R&B and soul, and performed at Toronto’s preeminent music […]
posted Friday, January 20, 2017
Opening January 20, Hart House Theatre presents a musical based on Stephen King’s well-known revenge thriller novel, Carrie: the musical is directed by Toronto theatre icon, Richard Ouzounian, and stars a cast of young performers. Tormented at school by the ‘cool’ kids, and smothered at home by her religious zealot mother, Carrie is a true outcast. […]
posted Thursday, January 5, 2017
Glad Day Books, Toronto’s longest-running bookstore and always an awesome place to drop around and visit, has turned overnight into one of the hottest places to hang out in all of Toronto. With an espresso machine, many metres of red granite bar surface, talented bartenders, bright new tiles with neon pink grout, tables with a […]
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