Here’s the spiel: “You don’t have to be a history buff to get into Bad Dog’s newest and most scandalous comedy: Hogtown Empire. Director Peter Stevens has selected an alluring and savvy cast of Toronto’s quickest comedic performers to take you back to our city’s dark days of origin. For a serialized run of 5 Wednesdays […]
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Why aren’t more people watching Justified? The show, now returning for its fourth season, which basically revolves around the fact that Timothy Olyphant totally pulls off a cowboy hat. Olyphant stars as Raylan Givens, a cowboy hat-wearing US Marshall, who solves crimes and is better than every one. Always. More people should be watching Justified […]
Being no stranger to Flat Earth productions, I was ecstatic to kick off my new year with one of theirs. Never much being one for Absurdist theater, nor having a particularly deeps knowledge of Czech playwrights, I went in to The Memorandum completely blind, and suffice to say I was blown away by what I saw. Richly presented […]
Here it is, folks, the final set of nominees in our 2012 Awards Season. You’ve seen the My TV Award nominations, the My Theatre Award nominations and even our first-ever set of My Games Award nominations. And here, hours after The Golden Globes pushed back against Oscar folly by awarding Ben Affleck and Argo, are […]
Nintendo announced late in December that company President Satoru Iwata would have major news for Pokémon fans this Tuesday, January 8th. Fans of the series have known that, based on Nintendo’s prior announcement patterns, something big was due; Iwata’s presence only made it that much more exciting. That excitement came to fruition this morning, when […]
It’s hard to believe but this is the SIXTH year of The My TV Awards. Our first year was so long ago that some of the recipients were long-gone gems like Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls and Pushing Daisies (even Studio 60 scored a win for Best Guest Star- Allison Janney, of course). But 2012 was […]
If you haven’t read Part I of this over-written countdown, you should go do that now (I worked hard on these!). I’ll wait…. … … … … … Are you back? Okay, here’s Part II. It’s got two relatively small films, two massive world-wide blockbusters, and one new release featuring the breakout star of […]
Hannah Moscovitch is such a solid playwright. Her works is so consistently good it’s beginning to border on predictable. It’s rare that I’m completely enraptured by a Moscovitch piece but I’m always impressed and effected. She chooses hard subjects and captures them vividly with sharp, realistic dialogue and rich characterizations. A Moscovitch play is the […]