That’s right, I’m talking about Mirvish’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical and Tarragon’s Marshall McLuhan one-act in one article. They’re both terrible- dull, simplistic, varying degrees of ridiculous- and they’re playing in Toronto at the same time, but the two have more in common than just ruining my Wednesday nights. In Jason Sherman’s The […]
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It’s time, once again, for the On DVD series featuring new releases from Shout! Factory, Universal, Paramount & Sony Home Entertainment. The 60s For the music historians among you, HBO’s documentary Elvis Presley: The Searcher is the perfect collectible DVD. It spans the legend’s whole career, one of the craziest character arcs HBO’s ever seen (which is, um, […]
Scorch, Stacey Gregg’s award-winning play about one teen’s struggle with gender identity and the legal system, is ‘based on a true story’. Beneath that lifeless description Scorch’s real power is in telling the true stories of a larger family of people, who find their right to write their own story under attack, without claiming to […]
With a stellar, impassioned cast, Hamlet(s) should not be missed. Only playing until Nov 24th…
After a Cali sweep of titanic proportions, A-Markzzz and the Frase talk hair care, Fortnite, and a smattering of hockey. Will Nylander sign before December 1 st ? Who cares when the fourth line is starting to make us beLeiv(o). Also, the Leafs are first in the league. L F Army hopes to give a […]
With new theatre, it is sometimes tricky to differentiate between what comes from the original writing and from the production you are viewing. After all, such an early incarnation of a musical will have very few, if any, comparisons by which the production itself can be directly judged. With Hadestown, the two are even more […]
“Why should I fight the white man’s war, when men like you take everything away from me and my people?” This incredulous question strikes at the heart of Gods Like Us, a deep resonating expression of the complete disconnect between the priorities of two men from very different backgrounds. The undercurrents of racial divide and […]
Welcome back to the David vs. Goliath train, which continues at full-speed ahead, despite my reservations every single week that something is inevitably going to derail it, probably in the form of a crazy twist. What I loved so much about this tribal council was that even though, yes, it was determined by twists in […]