Soulpepper’s production of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow is a summer must see. Under the expert direction of David Storch you are in for an exhilarating and entertaining journey. Speed-the-Plow takes you inside the world of the American movie business. The wheeling and dealing, the dirty deals and the all consuming desire to make money. ...
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Backbeat is not Jersey Boys; it is not a musical rendition of a boy band making it big in the 60’s. This is a retelling of how the fab four originated, the spark that became the idea, that became the Beatles. Based on Iain Softley’s 1994 movie, the stage production focuses on the band’s...
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We’re all a little bit racist The internet is for Porn If you spend all your time looking for your purpose, you’ll let it slip by The Lower Ossington Theatre (LOT) hosts the return of Avenue Q, on stage now until August 4. The show originally planned for TV is now one of the...
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I have seen several versions of Rent and it is one of my favourite musicals so I was excited to see what Lower Ossington Theatre Company would bring to this production. I have consistently been blown away by the extraordinary vocal talent that this company showcases and this musical is no exception. Most of...
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The Hunger, an immersive performance installation devised by architect Margaret Krawecka, and with Mal Nowacka (The Chimera Project), Ulysses Castellanos and Richard Windeyer (bluemouth inc.) The Hunger tells the original fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. Audience members walk through a 500 sq ft installation made of vacuum-sealed bread, and are lead by performers...
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Home, written by David Storey is not action packed—in fact the show takes place on a nearly bare stage with the actors mainly stationary for the duration of the play, but the contents of this material are rife with emotion and surprising turns. Apparently the playwright wrote all his plays in two or three...
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Seventh Stage and Nightwood Theatre’s production of Stockholm is a disturbing and thrilling piece of theatre. Bryony Lavery, best known for her Tony nominated play Frozen, makes the interesting choice of having the characters speak about themselves in the third person and in verse. This not only gives the piece a poetic quality but...
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A play on drug abuse is not new; it’s an afterschool special we’ve all seen before. So why should High cause such interest? It’s more. It’s a power struggle between an angry teen Cody Randall (Evan Jonigkeit) who knows how to push buttons and hustle his way through any situation and a nun, Sister...
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This double bill presented by the Canadian Opera Company doubles the pleasure and doubles the fun. One could say that these one-act operas only have the setting of Florencein common; however we find out that what lies beneath the Tuscan sun is the human experience. A Florentine Tragedy takes place in the darkness...
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Birdland Theatre’s Gruesome Playground Injuries is a haunting, textured piece written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph. The story follows two close friends, Doug and Kayleen’s relationship from age 8 into their late 30′s. The short, intimate scenes weave backward and forward in time. Doug endures an incredible number of injuries in his life...
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