April is always such a whirlwind of a month, however it looks like May will be just as busy! I'm excited to see plenty of exciting new theatre this May, and to share my thoughts with all of you! Unwritten: The Improv Show - Young People's Theatre For the first time in its 58-year history,…
Waiting for the TTC, particularly in the middle of the night, certainly can make you feel like you’re stuck in one of Samuel Beckett’s plays. Peter N. Bailey’s Tyson’s Song takes this feeling to the next level with his thought-provoking story about two friends on the brink of a new phase of their lives. As…
How long does it take to destroy a life? For Cara, it’s a mere four minutes and twelve seconds and her life will never be the same. The North American Premiere of James Fritz’s Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, directed by Studio 180 Theatre’s Artistic Director Mark McGrinder, is poignant and unpredictable. The stellar cast who…
Jordi Mand is getting to bring her latest play In Seven Days home to Toronto! After a successful run at the Grand Theatre in London, ON, Mand’s play is coming to the Greenwin Theatre in May. I got to send some questions to Jordi about her process, what it’s like writing for stage vs screen,…
A secluded chalet high in the French Alps becomes occupied by a newlywed couple, what could go wrong? According to Robert Thomas’ Trap for a Lonely Man, the answer is plenty! Directed by Kevin Shaver, this production of Thomas’ genre-defining work confounds and delights with a twisty plot that’ll keep you guessing. Jamie Sherman, Makenzie…
They might just be “four Jews in a room, bitching,” but their lives are so much more complicated than that! Falsettos, with music and lyrics by William Finn and book by Finn and James Lapine, is simultaneously a laugh-out-loud comedy and heartbreaking drama about a group of friends living in New York City whose lives…
In the lobby outside of the Franco Boni Theatre there’s a quote projected onto the wall: “What you are about to see is not wholly inaccurate. But close.” Rose Napoli, author and star of Mad Madge, sets up our expectations for her play perfectly in two brief sentences. Mad Madge explores the extraordinary life of…
Imagine having ideas and plans so big that you simply knew you couldn’t fit them into a single lifetime. What’s a billionaire like Walt Disney to do but freeze his own head in hopes of one day being revived in time to help save the world. Lucas Hnath’s A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay…
You might think you know about Louis Riel and his place in Canada’s History, but I can guarantee you’ve never heard it told like this! Frances Končan’s Women of the Fur Trade, which is being presented by the National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre and Great Canadian Theatre Company, looks at this tumultuous time in Canada’s…
An American horror writer and a British children’s story author walk into a bar...or in the case of Eldritch Theatre’s The House at Poe Corner, they walk into the Woodland of Weir, never to be heard from again. Resurrected for its ten year deathiversary, The House at Poe Corner (written by Micheal O’Brien and Eric…
A View from the Box 