
23 December 2019
Featured Event: Puppetmongers Theatre’s Tea at the Palace
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
From December 26-29, Puppetmongers Theatre are celebrating the 30th Anniversary…

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…

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 …