Second City is hosting their “Spotlight at The Second City” again this week, with two nights of fabulous performances from some of Toronto’s best new comedians. Ben Kopp and Calvin Rea, better known as Glen and Vinny, are two of this week’s spotlight artists! I get to talk to them about clowning, how they first…
Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a timeless classic; its story of spiritual rebirth around the holidays continues to ring as true today as it did for the Victorians. But you’ve never seen “A Christmas Carol” told like this before! Invasion: Christmas Carol puts a wild improvisational spin on Dickens’ hallowed text, ensuring a night…
What’s your favourite season? I love the spring, because everything is new and fresh and getting warmer, but not too hot. But what if you lived a world of only winter? Where nothing ever changes and the frozen wasteland goes on as far as the eye can see. Bad Hats’ Narnia, adapted and directed by…
“I steal from the rich and give to the needyHe takes a wee percentage, but I'm not greedy” Twenty four years later, and the beginning of the “Merry Men” song from “Shrek” is still the first thing I think of when I hear the name Robin Hood, shortly followed by the iconic “Oo-De-Lally” song from…
The sound of knitting needles greeted me as I walked into the BMO Incubator at The Theatre Centre. But it wasn’t a pre-show sound effect, there were folks knitting as they waited for the show to start. Many others were clad in knit goods, a product of the cold but also showing enthusiasm for the…
May Day in St. Kitts is a pretty big deal: there’s a parade, all the stores and banks in town are closed, the drink is flowing, and the parties go on until dawn. So when three sailors find themselves stranded there after a massive storm, you know they’re bound to make the best of it.…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and I’m not just talking about the holiday season! Two of RuPaul’s most legendary queens, Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme are back on the road for their eighth year spreading holiday joy, with just a hint of yuletide cynicism. This year, the queens are going on a haunting…
How do you find fulfillment? It’s different for everyone: some find it through their job, kids, passion projects, hobbies. But what happens when you can’t find that thing that fills you up? Or what used to give you that sense of fulfillment no longer does? The characters in Abe Koogler’s Fulfillment Centre are desperately trying…
Have you ever overheard two people in a heated argument? And you know you shouldn’t listen, yet you can’t help but take sides based on what you’re hearing. debbie tucker green’s a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun), directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu, is a glorious ninety minutes of doing just this: observing three…
On the largest scales, black hole mergers pluck notes on the fabric of spacetime itself, while vast pressure waves span galaxies over aeons. On the smallest, molecules and atoms vibrate trillions of times per second. And sitting squarely in between the gargantuan and the microscopic is humanity. Us. Why should we not suspect that sound…
A View from the Box 