Bad Dog Comedy Theatre is getting in on Pride month with an Official Pride Toronto Community event this weekend, a two-day mini-festival of shows highlighting LGBTQ performers. Three shows on Friday will be followed up by four shows on Saturday and, as is often the case at Bad Dog, you can add shows to your […]
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Randy Writes A Novel, currently playing at the Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row, is not what one would conventionally call “theatre,” per se. The show is set in a theatre, but it is really a semi-scripted stand-up comedy act built around personal storytelling, riffing on societal commentary, and interspersed with existential philosophy and reflection. And […]
Who needs inner saboteur when Ru is the greatest saboteur of all, and she’s right there…
Last week, my hometown was proud to host a four-day festival for all things television, and yours truly got an up-close look at how the sausage, or rather, the shows, get made. Directors, talent, industry pros and press- so much press, with laptops, zoom recorders, flashbulbs and paraphernalia- I haven’t been to a comic-con or […]
June 7-10, members of our MyTV staff braved the heat and the crowds and the too-much-brisket tummyaches in order to take part in the seventh annual Austin Television Festival (brisket not mandatory, just encouraged). Over four days, we took in a slew of great panels, attended some really exciting screenings, and talked to a lot […]
String of Pearls, brought to you by Labour of Love, chronicles the life line of a pearl necklace and it’s connection to the women who wear it. It’s a story of heart ache, of longing, of death and destruction, pettiness, and love. Be prepared for your emotions torun through the spectrum. This is a story […]
I think most coffee table books are a little stupid, seemingly designed just to occupy uncomfortable company while you’re off, I don’t know, platting the hors d’oeuvres? They clutter up the table and seem to me to be mostly just pictures of gardens or whatever. But the just-released 200+ page effort from Schiffer (available now […]
It’s time, once again, for the On DVD series featuring new releases from Paramount and Sony Home Entertainment. Annihilation Go get this Blu-ray + DVD + Digital set right now. You ought to have seen this excellent female-led sci-fi adventure in theatres because it deserves as big a screen as possible but Alex Garland’s a great filmmaker whose […]