Before we announce the winners of the 2013 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. A Best Supporting Actor nominee in the regional category this year, Scott Farley’s dynamic take on the much-abused and abusing Malvolio in Matthew Gorman’s scholarly Twelfth Night was one of the highlights of Hart House’s standout […]
Toronto is having a bit of a musical theatre moment right now. This town usually isn’t that flush with song and dance- one or two shows playing in the commercial theatres plus whatever the LOT’s doing and that’s it on any given day. But right now Mirvish is in the final weeks of their best […]
Another year, another Award Nominee Interview Series. We love this time of year because we get to celebrate the work of so many amazing artists AND we get to grill them about everything from their backstory to their process to behind-the-scenes gossip (okay, so we rarely ask that last one outright, but we sometimes get […]
Toronto’s annual Next Stage Theatre Festival is a fantastic event where Fringe performers are able to take their work to, well, the next stage of its development. It has the same independent, organic feel that makes the Fringe Festival so special (also the beer tent element that makes it feel like a community affair) but […]
As You Like It is my absolute favourite Shakespearean comedy. It’s both sweepingly romantic and wryly realistic about love and marriage. It’s fantastically witty but also deeply melancholy. It has as much to say about friendship as it does about romance. It’s philosophical, fun, touching and generally a pretty easy slam dunk of a show. […]
The first season of Girls was a pretty consistent ride through the sometimes alienating, sometimes uncomfortably relatable lives of its four main Girls. There were parts that I loved and parts that I hated but ultimately by the time we got to the season finale I’d learned to appreciate the show for its boldness and […]
Congratulations are in order for Seth Aaron Henderson who followed up his Season 7 Project Runway win by taking home the Season 3 prize last night on the All-Star spinoff. Amidst the show’s toughest competition to date (including multiple other former winners), Seth Aaron became the first person to win both the regular show and […]
Before we announce the winners of the 2013 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. The first entry into this year’s Nominee Interview Series is Christopher Fowler, a Best Supporting Actor nominee for his performance as Touchstone in Humber River Shakespeare’s production of As You Like It. One of the summer’s most reliably […]