26 November 2019
Featured Event: Shakespeare in Hospitals Gala
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Collective’s annual Shakespeare in Hospitals gala is coming up very soon so we caught up with Artistic Director Victoria Urquhart to find out how this season’s show came to …
28 October 2019
The Shakespeare Series: The Winter’s Tale w/ Jeannette Lambermont-Morey
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
With the help of some of the best and brightest Shakespeare fans in the world…
11 October 2019
Pilot Watch + 1: 2019 Network Dramas
By Kelly Bedard // TV
The new TV season is upon us! As we mourn the slaughter of all the great shows that had to die so these ones could live (RIP, For the People …
09 October 2019
Favourites Series: Kelly Bedard talks to Frank Turner
By Kelly Bedard // Music
About the Favourites Series: One of our favourite things is to listen to our favourite people talk about their favourite things. In this series, we’ll be inviting some awesome guest …
21 September 2019
Favourites Series: Clare Blackwood talks to Felicia Day
By Clare Blackwood // Books
Welcome to the first episode of our brand new Favourites Series! …
20 September 2019
The End of Orange is the New Black
By Kelly Bedard // TV
When it premiered in July 2013, Orange is the New Black was only the third original show on Netflix. House of Cards, which I’ve always maintained wasn’t half as good …
06 September 2019
Out of Town Report: Bard on the Beach’s Taming of the Shrew in Vancouver
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Spaghetti Western is a popular approach for Shakespeare’s most controversial comedy (in fact this production…
03 September 2019
2019 at the Shaw Festival
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
After I saw Brigadoon, the Shaw Festival’s magical staging of a reimagined classic musical, I right away sat down to write about the experience. At least for me, the night …
14 August 2019
SummerWorks, 2019
By Dom Harvey // Theatre (Toronto)
805-4821 (A) “805-4821 is a trans coming out story made out of other stories: a dialogue from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a half-remembered swim lesson, and an 80,000 word Facebook correspondence” This …
09 July 2019
ATX Season 8: An Interview w/ MPAC’s Sue Obeidi
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
One of my favorite panels from the ATX Television Festival was called “Resistance, Inclusion, and Creating Authentic Muslim Narratives.” Moderated by Vanity Fair’s Sonia Saraiya, the panelists spanned an impressive …
17 June 2019
Burning Out His Fuse Up Here Alone
By Kelly Bedard // Cinema
Paramount’s Rocketman is a bold, sentimental, messy, complex, obvious, colourful contradiction. If that sounds to you like a bad movie, you normally wouldn’t be wrong. But this is a movie …
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