“Ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not, HEDWIG!” John Cameron Mitchell’s opening line to his queer masterpiece Hedwig and the Angry Inch reverberates through the theatre as “America the Beautiful” begins to sound on the electric guitar. Though technically a musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock concert, history lesson, and…
Everyone loves a good plot twist in a play, but life has its own way of delivering course-altering plot twists when we least expect them. That’s certainly what happened to Carly Neis, the writer and performer of In My Own Little Corner, who went from needing care to being a caregiver seemingly in the blink…
1S1 Theatre is making it’s mark in the Toronto Theatre scene with their innovative and thought-provoking productions centred around audism and the lives experienced by those in the deaf/Deaf community. Dawn Jani Birley, 1S1’s Artistic Director will be taking to the stage again this fall in Qalb, A Journey of the Ego. I got to…
“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” Joni Mitchell’s 1970 hit continues to ring true in a society where urban sprawl and diminishing green space remain a perpetual issue. Yet Annie Massey’s new play Pave Paradise takes this idea a step further to debates about what should be done with, and who should…
“Deep down underneath it all I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar, on my desk.” Robert Bloch’s witticism (yes, Stephen King borrowed the line from him) is perfectly symbolic of the quirky gruesomeness that is With Love and a Major Organ by Julia Lederer. It’s Canadian premiere, directed…
Two bodies both alike in lividity, in fair Toronto where they lay to die. Unchained Theatre Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet takes a story we all know and brings it to the familiar locale of our beautiful city for an intense and passionate retelling. Directed by Unchained Theatre Company’s co-founder Jack Burrill, Romeo and…
Welcome to Kringle, ON where it’s Christmas all year round...or at least it has been for the past week! That is, until a major corporation tries to block them from being an official Christmastown (TM). This world premiere play by Briana Brown combines the hilarity of farce with serious subtext to create a delightful adventure…
Have you ever wondered what the you in another timeline is up to? Did their life work out the same way, or did some choice along the way radically diverge your paths? Nick Payne’s heartrending play Constellations allows the audience to experience multi-universe theory first hand through the lives of Marianne and Roland. Directed by…
The moon is high over Coley’s Point, Newfoundland and down below on the porch of a wealthy family’s home, Mary Snow is, as usual, staring up at the heavens. What she doesn’t expect is who is coming down the walkway to surprise her that evening, a surprise that’ll change the course of their lives forever.…
Drink up, time travellers! It’s New Year’s Eve, 1924 and you’re invited to the party of the year! Many Happy Returns is a fully immersive theatrical experience where audience members chat it up with The People of the Past at a swinging speakeasy soirée. Guided by our Time Captain and director Julie Cohn, each performance…
A View from the Box 