It’s been 4 years since Ins Choi’s play was presented to audiences, and it’s been 4 years that I’ve been wanting to and trying to see this show. On Sunday night, destiny prevailed over work, sickness, procrastination and tardiness and I finally saw Kim’s Convenience in its 5th remount with Soulpepper (at the Bluma Appel). […]
Click Here for the Full List of our 2015 Toronto Fringe Reviews Waiting for Alonzo (B+) To suggest this play is “Beckett meets the Bechdel Test” doesn’t do the innovative story and understated moments in it justice. While there are some tired critiques of a beauty-obsessed culture, the strength of this production are its characters […]
Click Here for the Full List of our 2015 Toronto Fringe Reviews A Man Walks Into a Bar (A) In all of Fringe, this is the play that’s stirred up the most in me; one of those plays where your stomach feels funny and you’re not sure when you leave the theatre whether you’ll […]
Keep your bonbons. Your roses. Your teddy bears. I wanted something steamy for Valentine’s Day this year and when I learned that Red One was producing Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, my mouth started to water. A risk-taking theatre company and a script full of verbal choreography and carnal content. What could possibly go wrong? […]
I can picture the meeting in which Red Band Society was greenlit. “There seems to be a lot of buzz around that The Fault In Our Stars thing. Maybe cancer’s hip these days?” And then, later on in the same meeting, someone found themselves remembering the tone-hopping, vaguely edgy days of early Glee. And then, […]
As the Apatow crew approaches REAL adulthood- sailing past the heady days of child-like freedom and adult-like access to beer- they’ve all branched off into their own style. Rogen has cemented his role as the go-to-guy for doing goofy buddy comedies (see the upcoming The Interview, This Is The End, Pineapple Express, what have you). […]
When Rise of the Planet of the Apes came out, it was met with a tidal wave of surprised praise. How did a movie starring a sleepy James Franco i- n a franchise that Tim Burton pretty solidly drove into the ground – manage to be not just bearable, but actually pretty great? Dawn of […]
Centered on Angelina Jolie’s prosthetically enhanced cheekbones, Maleficent comes off a lot like its title character: all sharp angles, other worldly beauty, and angry core. The advertising remains intentionally coy: is this a dark reimagining of an already-really-dark tale? A sympathetic character study a la Wicked? Or something different? The answer, as it turns out, […]