Last night was the opening show of Canadian Stage and the National Arts Centre’s production of playwright Michel Tremblay’s Saint Carmen of The Main and they outdid themselves in terms of the quality and caliber of the performance. From the moment the curtain at Bluma Appel made its slow ascent upward revealing fourteen sets...
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Toronto’s own Come As You Are presents the 5th Annual Toronto Erotic Arts and Crafts Fair on Saturday, February 12, from noon – 8 p.m. at the Gladstone Hotel. If you’re looking for something off the beaten track to do with your honey on Valentine’s weekend, stop by the fair to get your fill...
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The Gladstone Hotel will be hosting its annual alternative design event, the Come Up To My Room (CUTMR) Exhibition this weekend. Through dialogue and collaboration, CUTMR invites artists and designers to render what goes on inside their heads into room installations and public space projects – transforming from the surreal into tangibility. The result...
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Writer: Thalicia Pennant, Special to The Scene inTO The weather outside was bitter cold but the scene inside the Art Square Gallery and Café at 334 Dundas Street West was nothing less than hot. I stamped the snow off my boots and headed inside for Part One of a two-week long exhibit featuring the...
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Still haven’t gotten into the spirit of the holidays? Head to the Historic Distillery District and you’ll feel as though you’re a part of a Dickens novel. Inspired by the traditions and charm of a European Christmas Market, Lowe’s Toronto Christmas Market has set up camp on the cobblestone steps complete with a brightly...
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Tim Burton’s unique, humorous, and dark vision has given us such thrilling movies as A Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Alice in Wonderland. Burton draws inspiration from various sources including German Expressionism, Vincent Price, science fiction films, Mexican Day of the Dead, performance art and...
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The Eye Weekly current edition focuses three whole pages to Beiber Fever and offered up a walking tour of some of the Biebe’s favourite places growing up in Stratford, Ontario: “The Smallest Town in the World” according to Bieber’s live quote on last week’s American Music Awards. For those of us who frequent Stratford...
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The Electric Company brings a visually stunning show to Canadian Stage with their remounted work Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge. The story is drawn from the life of Muybridge, a 19th century photographer who completed extensive photographic investigations of animal and human locomotion using instantaneous photography. Much of this production is...
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Earlier this month, The Scene inTO told you about Toronto's Scotiabank Theatre hosting a free public screening of all the nominated films from Air Canada’s enRoute Film Festival. The screening was followed by the awards celebration at The Drake Hotel and the entire evening was a success.
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If you are excited by theater that is not mainstream, takes risks and does something unexpected with the text, you may have enjoyed the opening show of the 2010 – 2011 season at the Canadian Stage, Fernando Krapp Wrote Me This Letter: An Attempt at the Truth. The original, written by German playwright Tankred...
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