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 …
26 June 2019
Featured Production: Pack Animals at the Toronto Fringe
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
The Saskatoon StarPhoenix described Holly Brinkman and S.E. Grummett’s Pack Animals as…
08 April 2019
How To Shakesbeers: The Official Audience Guide
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
My favourite theatre fundraiser of the year is always Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Collective’s Shakesbeers Showdown…
30 November 2018
Featured Event: Shakespeare-in-Hospitals Homecoming Gala
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Over the last three months, Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Collective’s ensemble…
03 July 2018
Featured Production: Living Will at the Toronto Fringe
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Premiering this Friday, July 6th and playing through July 15th (full schedule below), Living Will is one of 159 plays taking part in this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival. A world …
24 May 2018
Featured Production: Frozen
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Seven Siblings Theatre is coming off their strongest season yet with a staged reading, a festival of new work, and two mainstage productions including the Critics’ Pick Award-nominated Fringe run …
09 December 2017
Featured Event: Shakespeare-in-Hospitals La Maschera Gala
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Over the last three months, Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Collective’s ensemble has been touring…
03 November 2017
Featured Production: You Want It What Way? A Boy Band Tale
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
When it comes to boy bands, my Littrell-loving heart instinctively trusts a Brian. So when Backstreet Boys devotee Brian Jansen pitched a sketch comedy dance show about boy bands, I …
25 October 2017
Featured Production: Grab ‘Em By the Pussy
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Described as “A Surrealist Vaudeville Farce”, the fabulously titled “Grab ‘Em By the Pussy” or How to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb is the troll-baiting, expectation-defying, ground-breaking new work …
19 October 2017
Featured Event: Future Theatre Festival
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
The ever-ambitious Seven Siblings Theatre is mounting their biggest project yet- a two week festival of new work from Toronto playwrights working in the company’s chosen realm of Fantastic Realism. …
10 October 2017
Featured Event: One More Night Festival
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Vikki Velenosi and Kasey Dunn are the co-founders of Brick and Mortar, an artist-run company that owns and operates three independent theatre spaces in Toronto- The Box, The Attic, and, …
02 November 2015
Featured Production: #KanderAndEbb
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (New York)
Ryan G. Hinds is one of Toronto’s most beloved cabaret performers. From his glittering one-man Fringe show Starry Notions to the absurd and exuberant disco ballet he created for SummerWorks, Hinds …
19 June 2015
Shaw Season Sponsor: Highgrove B&B
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Our Shaw Festival coverage this season is brought to you by the wonderful Highgrove Bed & Breakfast in Niagara-on-the-Lake. A rare affordable option a short walk from the central Queen …
19 May 2015
Featured Production: Trout Stanley
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
The latest indie company to take the stage at the Storefront Theatre is the excellently named Severely Jazzed, headed by improvisers Tess Degenstein and Hannah Spear. We spoke to Tess …
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