Beyond the Box has a pretty wide reach this month! There’s so much great theatre happening not only in other parts of the province, but in Quebec as well. If any of these are local to you, make sure you check them out and let me know what you thought! All That Is Between –…
Here we are, the start of another theatre season! With new seasons beginning at all of our favourite theatres, and productions being put on from emerging companies, it’s going to be a BUSY month. I’m really looking forward to getting back to some of my favourite spaces and seeing what the 24/25 season has in…
What does it mean to be “unwanted?” To be cast aside, to be unnecessary, to be forgotten? The young women we meet in George F. Walker’s Girls Unwanted have been made to feel that way their whole lives, so when the police start calling about a murder, everyone has their back against the wall. The…
“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…
A View from the Box 