An unexpected meeting with blue invitations, lovers scorned and seeking closure, murders most foul...what better material for a musical?!? Love You To Death: A New Canadian Musical, directed by Caitlin Turner, certainly thinks so and they’ve created a twisty tale of love, deceit, heartbreak, and sabotage. With memorable characters, catchy songs, and a well-built story,…
The first production of Opera Atelier’s 2023/2024 season is Gluk’s Orpheus and Eurydice. Originally commissioned for the court of Marie Antoinette, this beautiful love story is now on stage at the historic Elgin Theatre. Masterfully done, as I’ve come to expect from Opera Atelier, Orpheus and Eurydice is an opulent night at the opera. Orpheus…
East Coast music and imagination are on stage at the whimsical Winter Garden Theatre in Terra Bruce Productions’ The Wild Rovers. Using the music of Irish-Canadian band The Irish Rovers and bringing to life the magic of their television show, The Wild Rovers is a wild trip into a fairy tale world where anything can…
Toronto Fringe is back with its Next Stage Festival; similar to Fringe, it’s short form works which are now in their next stage of development. This year’s festival is their sixteenth year giving artists another opportunity to showcase their works and their talents on the Toronto Fringe stage. The whole festival takes place at Buddies…
Walter Borden is here to rock our worlds, and change our perspectives, with his solo show The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time. Dealing with everything from legacy to memory and how we pass all of that on, Borden’s incredible work is a moving, thought-provoking look at our lives and how we choose to stitch them…
The opera scene in Toronto has been graced with several world premieres over the past year or so, and Unsettled Score’s Canoe is the latest in this impressive group. Canoe’s Libretto and story was written by Dr. Spy Dénommé-Welch, as well as being co-composed by Dénommé-Welch and Catherine Magowan. Produced in collaboration with Native Earth…
It’s gearing up to be an exciting fall, and hopefully my Beyond the Box post will be kept short this month! With a more liberal schedule I’m hoping to attend lots of performances as companies get their 2023/24 seasons off the ground. Fall for Dance North* Toronto’s premier international dance festival, will bring its diverse…
There’s a beauty to the fact that the end of summer also means the beginning of new seasons of theatre; as the nights get longer and the weather cooler, what a better thing to do than get together and see live theatre! I have a lot of exciting performances coming up this month and I’m…
Getting to see a new company emerging onto the theatre scene is always exciting; with so much art happening around Toronto, giving it a go in this industry is worth a pat on the back in and of itself. Shifting Ground Collective is one such new company, and their first full production is Adam Gwon’s…
After a successful run at the Hamilton Fringe, Dandelion Theatre, along with Sweet Action Theatre Company, is bringing their original work DEATH: A Love Story to Toronto! Written and directed by Dandelion’s Artistic Director Max Ackerman, DEATH: A Love Story is a charming story with deep emotional roots that’ll have you smiling and tearing up…
A View from the Box 