Experience two immersive audio-only productions that use binaural sound and sensory effects to create an alternate reality – on now until November 9, 2025 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, October 7, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Toronto

DARKFIELD presents two internationally acclaimed immersive audio experiences for the first time in Toronto, staged inside custom-built 40-foot shipping containers at STACKT Market.  SÉANCE and FLIGHT plunge audiences into complete darkness, using 360° binaural sound and meticulously timed sensory effects to transport them into unsettling territories. Staged inside purpose-built 40-foot shipping containers, these genre-defying works use precisely […]

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“Blackbird” delves into the taboo topic of an intergenerational relationship – on stage until Oct 18, 2025 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, October 7, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Theatre, Toronto

Blackbird tells the story of Ray, fifty-five, who after years in prison and subsequent hardships, has a new identity and has made a new life for himself, thinking that he cannot be found. Una, twenty-seven, has thought of nothing else; upon seeing a photo of Ray in a magazine, she has arrived unannounced at his […]

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Michelle Ross: Unknown Icon – the untold story of Toronto’s trailblazing drag queen

posted Sunday, October 5, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Drag, Queer, Streaming Online, Toronto

Long before drag became a staple of pop culture, Michelle Ross made her indelible mark as a powerhouse, dominating and defining the Black queer drag scene in Toronto and beyond. To her community, she was a dazzling trailblazer; to her family, she was Earl Barrington Shaw, or simply “Barry.” It wasn’t until Michelle’s sudden death […]

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Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery – the story behind the success of Sarah McLachlan’s iconic female-focused festival

posted Friday, October 3, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Music, Toronto

Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery tells the story of Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, who in 1996 had something to prove to the music industry. Despite having hit after hit, she kept hitting obstacles: Commercial radio didn’t believe they could play two female artists in a row. That she couldn’t headline a bigger venue because there […]

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All Things Go festival launches its inaugural Toronto event with headliners Reneé Rapp, Kacey Musgraves, Remi Wolf, Role Model, and many others – Oct 4 and 5, 2025

posted Wednesday, October 1, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Music, Toronto

All Things Go festival reveals the set times for the inaugural 2025 Toronto edition, October 4 and 5. Headliners include Reneé Rapp, Kacey Musgraves, Remi Wolf, Role Model. The two day festival features a total of 16 artists, including Special Guest Charlotte Cardin, Noah Cyrus, Ravyn Lenae, Chelsea Cutler, Blondshell, Valley, Joy Oladokun etc. All Things Go […]

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Legendary Lena Lovich performs along with Devo and B52s, on a North American tour that begins in Toronto on September 24, 2025

posted Monday, September 22, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Music, Queer, Toronto

Two of rock’s most influential and distinctive forces, The B-52s and Devo, will unite for the 2025 “Cosmic De-Evolution Tour”: a co-headlining 11-date run serving as both bands’ continuing concert farewells, with the lengendary and elusive Lene Lovich opening the celebratory trek. SNAPSHOT REVIEW The wonderful human being that is Lena Lovich has always found […]

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Butch/Femme – a moving exploration of love, identity, and the courage it takes to face the truth — and each other. – on stage Sept 20 to 27, 2025 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Queer, Theatre, Toronto

BUTCH/FEMME is set in the stillness of 1950s rural Ontario, and begins when Jenny’s quiet evening is interrupted by an unexpected visitor — Alice, the woman she thought she’d left behind. Over the course of one charged night, the two women revisit the past, unearth long-buried truths, and confront the invisible threads that still bind […]

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A Night Like This – two estranged strangers meet and spend the night roaming and divulging their stories about the complications of life, love, and loneliness

posted Monday, September 8, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

A Night Like This is a great story about complicated lives, love, and loneliness. It’s reflective of much of today’s society who have succumbed to living their social life virtually on social media, rather than through in-person interactions.  Two seemingly mismatched men, one gay/one straight, form an unexpected connection over the course of one cold […]

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Bus Stop – stranded strangers interact on an unexpected weather related overnight layover – on stage Sept 12 to Oct 4, 2025 (Toronto)

posted Monday, September 8, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Featured Events, Theatre, Toronto

Bus Stop is set in a diner/bus stop in rural Kansas, outside Kansas City, MO in early March 1955. A freak snowstorm has halted the bus, and the eight characters (five on the bus) have a weather-enforced layover in the diner in the early hours of the morning. Romantic and quasi-romantic relationships play out. SNAPSHOT […]

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Watch These Queer Flicks as part of TIFF’s 50th Anniversary Programming – Sept 4 to 15, 2025 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, September 3, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Featured Events, Film, Queer, Toronto

TIFF is back, and celebrating its 50th anniversary! The Toronto Internation Film Festival has always been at the forefront of avantgarde programming, challenging the norm with provocative and disruptive film screenings, and that bold initiative continues through to today, which is why its one of the top international film festivals in the world. We’ve compiled […]

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