The 2024/25 season is in full swing, with many of our favourite theatres coming to life again! October is shaping up to be another busy month with plenty of festivals and season openers to attend! 13 Plays about ADHD All At The Same Time – Circlesnake Productions 13 Plays About ADHD All At The Same…
Theatre Passe Muraille's mainstage season continues with The Flin Flon Cowboy, created by Ken Harrower, Erin Brandenburg, Johnny Myrm Spence and The Flin Flon Cowboy Collective. A look at the life of Ken Harrower through country music, The Flin Flon Cowboy is sure to delight! I got to send both Erin and Ken some questions…
Think humans are the only species who love Shakespeare? Think again! There are goblins currently roaming around Toronto, in search of a theatre space where they can put on their favourite of the Bard’s works: Macbeth. Kragva, Wug, and Moog are bringing their passion and prowess to the stage in this hilarious partially-improvised retelling of…
Ronnie Burkett is pulling on our heartstrings, as well as his puppets’ strings, with his latest creation Wonderful Joe. Burkett brings his unique blend of comedy and compassion to this awe-inspiring production, taking us on a journey with Joe Pickle and his colourful cast of neighbours. As side-splitting as it is tear-jerking, Wonderful Joe lives…
Do you have trouble staying on task? Thoughts always running a million miles a minute? Then have we got the seminar for you! Alec Toller directs, and co-stage manages 13 Plays About ADHD All At The Same Time, a pseudo-seminar designed to help audience members understand a bit more about life with ADHD. Featuring a…
Have you ever wished you could just walk out of the grocery store, full bags in hand, having not paid a single cent? That’s exactly what Antonia, and hundreds of other fed up wives, have accomplished in Dario Fo’s Low Pay? Don’t Pay!. With a plot which sounds like it could be ripped from the…
Did you hear that? Was it just a twig snapping beneath your foot? Or has Samca found you in Hoia Baicu late at night? Based on the Romanian folktale, Spindle Collective and Riot King’s production of SAMCA tells the story of a pair of sisters who must learn to navigate the world with as much…
Once upon a time...those four words have taken each of us on countless adventures into the land of fairy tales and imagination. Toronto’s CORPUS company and Japan’s KIO company are here to take us on another journey, one which blends the two cultures in an examination of two animals frequently found in their respective fairy…
“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.” Diogenes’ musings about friendship are aptly discussed in Aaron Posner Chaim Potok’s play The Chosen, based off of Potok’s novel by the same name. Two young men become friends through very unlikely circumstances, and while their upbringings are very different, they connect in so many ways.…
The last residential school in Canada closed in 1996; I started first grade that September, with no clue at all that these schools existed. Like most young Canadians, I didn’t learn about the full extent of the atrocities perpetrated against Indigenous peoples until well into my adult life, and plays like Jani Lauzon and Kaitlin…
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