Come in! The Shabbat table is set, the challah is warm, and Shylock is expecting you. Shakespeare BASH’d is shedding new light and focus on one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays with their production of The Merchant of Venice. Featuring a predominantly Jewish team, this production of Merchant does not shy away from anyone’s faults…
At times, the darkest situations can yield some of the most true and genuinely funny comedy. Jordi Mand has certainly tapped into that beautiful duality with her latest play In Seven Days. In a co-production with The Grand Theatre, and directed by Philip Akin, In Seven Days will have you laughing and crying in equal…
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,…
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…
A View from the Box 