posted Friday, December 11, 2015
The Elgin and Winter Theatres are Toronto’s most unique performance spaces in the city. This Double-Decker venue was built in 1913 and originally known as Loew’s Yonge Street Theatre. The Winter Garden closed in 1928 and remained vacant for half-a-century, while the Elgin remained open as the Imperial 6 movie theatre. The Ontario Heritage Trust […]
posted Saturday, November 14, 2015
Tis the holiday season….well it will be soon, and Toronto gets a new holiday themed staged production. Dee Snider’s Rock & Roll Christmas Tale, written by and starring Twisted Sister front man Dee Snider, will be joined by singer/songwriter recording sensation, Taylor Dayne, who brings her distinctive vocal style to the role of “Roxanne,” the […]
posted Monday, October 26, 2015
David Arquette is set to play the title role in SHERLOCK HOLMES, an original adaptation inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tales by the late Canadian playwright, Greg Kramer. it’s playing Toronto’s Ed Mirvish Theatre from October 27-November 8, 2015. Thrilling, humorous, full of head-scratching crimes and dazzling deduction in the face of cunning […]
posted Saturday, October 24, 2015
Aside from my antics, the Taste Buds don’t often have entertainment with a meal. Thanks to theBUZZ we set out on this new experience to attend ‘Eatable’, Toronto’s food film festival at the Royal Theatre, located at 608-610 College Street, near Clinton Avenue. The Royal opened in 1939 in a community that was predominantly British. Today that area […]
posted Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Friendship, romance, sex and suffrage – AGE OF AROUSAL written by Linda Griffiths and directed by Jennifer Brewin, will launch Factory’s Naked Season 2015/16. Stripped down to the most fundamental and striking elements, the Naked Season is a series of pure encounters between the audience, the actors, and the text. In 1880s London, in the midst of […]
posted Sunday, October 4, 2015
David Mirvish announced additional shows and new details about his 2015-16 theatre season. Consisting of seven shows in the Main Subscription and three shows in the Off-Mirvish Subscription, the season also has eight shows that will be presented outside of subscription. In total, Mirvish will produce and/or present 18 shows in four different theatres – […]
posted Sunday, October 4, 2015
Upside Downton is one-person stand-up comedy show in Toronto that’s a parody of a popular UK based television show Downton Abbey. The Edwardian-era period-piece series began late 2010 in the UK, and was broadcast on PBS this side of the pond starting early 2011. It depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their […]
posted Friday, October 2, 2015
Be still all hearts – there truly is a FOOD and FILM Festival! Of all of the entertainment ideas or great combinations known to man, there is none more perfect for Taste Buds than a food-focused film festival! Not only does it get us gals off of the couch just watching at home, but we […]
posted Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Sometimes it’s best going into things, not knowing everything. .or anything at all. Such could be the case with the Mirvish production of Kinky Boots. If you’re going in thinking it’s all about kinks and such, then you’re wrong (sort of). However, it is about being Kinky, in a Lola (sort of) way, but it’s […]
posted Tuesday, September 29, 2015
MOTOWN THE MUSICAL is currently playing at the Mirvish Prince of Wales Theatre on King Street West, and it has audiences dancing in their seats, and out on the streets. It’s a story about music, passion, race relations, and love. Motown founder Berry Gordy had a dream to bring the predominately black performers from the […]
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