23 April 2019
Featured Production: Blood + Soil
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Are you worried about the state of the world? Good. So is director/playwright Rouvan Silogix. We caught up with him to get the inside track on his latest work with …
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. …
24 April 2017
Showdown Shit Talk: The Shakesbeerians Speak
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
I’ve never placed a sports bet in my life but, ask me about Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Collective’s annual fundraiser where Toronto indie companies go head to head reading the first folio …
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 …
31 August 2015
Featured Production: Pleasance Theatre’s Caught
By Oliver Simmonds // Theatre (London)
Today I am seated next to Leah Lawry-Johns and Eduard Lewis, who comprise part of the production team of Caught, the Pleasance Theatre’s latest show. Leah, while also writing the …
29 July 2015
Featured Production: Iris Theatre’s Pinocchio
By Oliver Simmonds // Theatre (London)
There is nothing like the Iris Theatre’s outdoor season in London. It is usually the summer, you have been working all day and you venture to Covent Garden; no, not …
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 …
13 May 2015
Featured Production: Miss Julie
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
For 7 performances May 20-24, the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse will play host to the inaugural presentation from Martha Rose Productions Inc., the latest addition to Toronto’s indie theatre community. …
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