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(spoilers ahead) The season 7 finale of Doctor Who was much more intimate and personal than finales of the past. While it was a nice change of pace and there were strong emotional moments, at times it felt lacking in scale. It would have been a much stronger episode were it not preceded by an […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2012 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.   A prolific and exuberant performer, music director and composer, Chris Tsujiuchi’s bi-annual “Chris-terical Cabaret” series brings down the house at Buddies in Bad Times every June and December.   Vivacious, heartfelt, and obscenely busy, Chris found […]

 

Once again, the King was crowned MVP. Yeah, he had a stellar season and deserves it, but the vaulted company he joins as a four time winner feels more than a little premature. Like every step of his career, we rushed to decorate the greatest player in the world, fueling his sense of entitlement and […]

 

“How are you, my little angry difficult misunderstood friend?” I am Marc Maron. I don’t mean literally, but metaphorically. If you had told me five years ago that the person I would identify most with- whose personality and thought patterns come closest to my own- would be a 49-year-old, twice divorced, recovering addict, bitter, angry, […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2012 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. One of Canada’s greatest sketch comedy troupes…

When I first saw Rushmore, alone at the Franklin Mall AMC Cinema 6, it was both an effort to ditch my Friday afternoon Intro to Philosophy class and a need to see what the “Bottle Rocket Guys’ would do next.  I enjoyed Bottle Rocket, but had sort of dismissed it as a kind of offbeat, […]

 

“Mommy Mommy!” “What is it, little Andreas?” “I want to play a game!” “What kind of game, my darling?” “One where I can help develop the postal infrastructure of 16th century Bavaria!” “…” While such a conversation may or may not have taken place in the Seyfarth household, it should have because the end result […]

Before we announce the winners of the 2012 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.   Our favourite Fringe show of the year was Shakespeare BASH’d’s smart take on the troublesome Taming of the Shrew, staged in a pub and starring James Wallis’ winning Petruchio.   The passionate founder of Shakespeare BASH’d […]