I cried for the majority of my drive home from Pine Farms Orchard last night. Having just witnessed King Theatre Company’s latest main stage show, Tuesdays with Morrie, I was moved beyond expectation. The stage adaptation, written by Jeffry Hatcher and Mitch Albom, beautifully distills Albom’s book into a ninety minute tour-de-force. Directed by King…
It was a HOT day at Fringe! But it was also a full day of seeing shows, having delicious meals, and running into lovely friends. The community is what I love the most about Fringe and today was a great reminder of that. Photo by Mia Safdie James & Eddie - Skylark Productions What do…
The 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival has officially kicked off! With over 100 shows on offer this year, there’s plenty of shows to choose from. I’m excited to share with you all my thoughts on this year’s shows! Happy Fringe! A Play We Wrote Just Now - Yaas & Vyle Presents Improv shows are a mainstay…
Life is full of “what if”s: what if I don’t go to school and become a musician? What if the store I work at closes? What if the guy from across the street wants to do more than flirt? What if my husband gets diagnosed with a terminal disease? Jill Daum’s Forget About Tomorrow, beautifully…
Generosity. Noun. Readiness to give more of something, especially money, than is necessary or expected. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, that is. Timon is lauded as being the most generous man that anyone knows, but how far does his generosity get him? And if that generosity merely buys false friendships, is that generosity at…
The Bacchanal is in full swing at the Coal Mine Theatre! DION: A Rock Opera is Coal Mine’s first ever World Premiere, and they could not have picked a more epic piece to start off 2024. Composed by Ted Dykstra, Libretto by Steve Mayoff, and directed by Peter Hinton-Davis, DION is an exciting, fresh, sexy…
October was a total whirlwind! So many incredible shows giving me PLENTY to write about! November is going to be no different; there’s tons going on around the city! I only wish I could make it to everything! Make sure you check out not just this post, but also my Beyond the Box post to…
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…
What’s left of you once you’ve lost everything? Simon Stephens’ Sea Wall delves into that and more in this powerful solo show on right now at Assembly Theatre. Produced in association with One Four One Collective and directed by Belinda Cornish, Sea Wall tells the gripping story of one man’s life and how quickly everything…
It seems perfectly fitting that the first play Shakespeare BASH’d is producing after the COVID-19 lockdowns is one also written during a plague in London. The Tragedy of King Lear has been several years in the making, and it was most definitely worth the wait. Directed by James Wallis and starring Stratford Festival favourite Scott…
A View from the Box 