24 February 2020
Canadian Stage: How to Fail As a Popstar
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
How to Fail As a Popstar… Is it a love letter or is it a break up song? After watching Vivek Shraya’s debut play, now playing at Canadian Stage’s Berkeley …
13 February 2020
Tarragon: This Was the World
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
Ellie Moon’s This Was the World, now playing at The Tarragon Theatre, Extra Space, endeavours to take on the notions of white privilege and white fragility, and does so unapologetically. …
17 January 2020
Kemi Projects’ Known
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
Jennifer Dallas, Artistic Director of Kẹmi Contemporary Dance Projects, says that she is inspired by choreographers who are playing in the cracks between disciplines. Dallas herself has been able to …
24 December 2019
The SpongeBob SquarePants Musical in Toronto
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Musical, presented by TO Live at Meridian Hall, was a breakout Broadway success in 2017/2018 garnering 12 Tony Award nominations and is the first in what TO …
22 November 2019
Anosh Irani’s Buffoon at Tarragon
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
Clowning is an art. A wise woman who has spent most of her adult life performing as a both a theatre and a circus clown once told me that clowning …
14 November 2019
Factory’s Fresh Trout Stanley
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
Traditionally, the Gothic aesthetic has dabbled with imagery of the supernatural, haunted castles, and other spooky fare. It is more reminiscent of Stoker’s Dracula lurking around Transylvanian castles than velour …
16 October 2019
Blood Pact’s Dock Mother God Society
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
Set in the British Columbia town of Kelowna against the backdrop of the worst wildfire season in Canadian history, Dock Mother God Society, Blood Pact Theatre’s latest production, is the …
08 July 2019
Toronto Fringe, 2019: Part IV
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
Take a look at our full list of 2019 Fringe reviews HERE. Clotheswap (A-) I love a good in-real-life clothes swap, so I was quite excited to see Amanda Barker’s and …
06 July 2019
Toronto Fringe, 2019: Part III
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
Take a look at our full list of 2019 Fringe reviews HERE. Night Cows (A) A percussive heartbeat punctuates the soundscape of Night Cows/Les vaches de nuits. Eléonore Lamothe sits curled …
07 April 2019
Australia’s Hot Brown Honey is Irresistible
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
Sitting high above the crowd, atop her glorious hive at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, is emcee for the evening Busty Beatz. The Queen Bee of Hot Brown …
08 March 2019
ARC’s Human Animals
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
Toronto has a complicated relationship with the wildlife that we share our urban terrain with in 2019. To many, maybe most, these animals are pests. They break into our attics …
14 January 2019
After the Fire, a Fort MacMurray story
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
After the Fire, the latest offering from indigenous playwright Matthew MacKenzie, is a powerfully dramatic yet darkly comedic take on the aftermath of Canada’s costliest natural disaster, the wildfires that …
15 November 2018
Martha Rose Productions presents Between the Sheets
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
I am an elementary school teacher. I have participated in hundreds of parent-teacher interviews, but I’ve never had an experience like the one portrayed in Jordi Mand’s Between the Sheets! …
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