Archive for 'Carly Maga'
This Friday, the inaugural edition of 360 Screenings will give new meaning to "surround sound" by bringing beloved movies from the screen to real life.
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Carly Maga • Photos by Corbin Smith May. 23rd, 12:30 pm
An American-Korean director and playwright tackles black politics in a challenging script that's brutally funny, and just plain brutal.
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Carly Maga May. 11th, 12:15 pm
The Canadian premiere of New York playwright Rajiv Joseph's romcom with a twist. Or, should we say, a sprain.
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Carly Maga May. 9th, 10:30 am
Emerging playwright Daniel Karasik gets meta with a play about twenty-somethings who don't know how to handle the opportunity their generation was born into.
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Carly Maga May. 3rd, 1:00 pm
Eric Peterson becomes the grandpa we all wish we had in Soulpepper's You Can't Take It With You .
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Carly Maga May. 1st, 12:30 pm
A brash 17th century farce seems a fitting end to Canadian Stage's 2011/2012 season—which shows just how far Matthew Jocelyn has taken the company.
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Carly Maga Apr. 25th, 10:30 am
Newfoundland's Artistic Fraud brings the true story of Lanier Phillips, a black Navy man saved by the women of the coastal town of St. Lawrence, to Toronto in a well-intentioned but uneven production.
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Carly Maga Apr. 23rd, 12:00 pm
A staged adaptation of Marina Nemat's acclaimed memoir Prisoner of Tehran just can't do justice to the story.
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Carly Maga Apr. 16th, 12:30 pm
The Darcys chronicle the very sad, sad, sad lives of Toronto girls about town in the video for "Josie," the latest from their Steely Dan tribute album, AJA .
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Carly Maga Apr. 13th, 1:30 pm
The Pulitzer Prize–winning play about race and real estate in the United States makes a Canadian debut that'll have you laughing as you cringe. Linging?
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Carly Maga Apr. 9th, 3:30 pm
This family comedy straddles morality and cultures, but gets lost in the journey.
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Carly Maga Apr. 4th, 4:30 pm
Four Toronto bands are building a following with tunes that are none of their own.
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Carly Maga • Illustrations by Roxanne Ignatius Mar. 29th, 10:45 am
These businesses like a little wordplay with their macramé.
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Carly Maga Mar. 29th, 9:00 am
On now at The Theatre Centre, Free Fall '12 is a festival that celebrates theatre "without a net."
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Carly Maga Mar. 27th, 3:00 pm
A last look at the melodic mayhem that was CMW 2012.
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Carly Maga • Photos by Corbin Smith and Dean Bradley Mar. 26th, 4:30 pm
This year's CMW Indie Awards went to the 'Dogs.
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Carly Maga • Photos by Corbin Smith Mar. 25th, 6:30 pm
Our breakdown of the shows we caught on the third day of Canadian Music Week.
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Carly Maga • Photos by Corbin Smith and Dean Bradley Mar. 24th, 3:30 pm
Torontoist talks to some CMW 2012 performers. Here's Half Moon Run, a trio from Montreal about to debut their first album.
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Carly Maga Mar. 22nd, 4:00 pm
Torontoist talks to some CMW 2012 performers. Here we have Barrie's "sons of sunn spawned by mothers of invention," (their words) Indian Handcrafts.
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Carly Maga Mar. 22nd, 11:30 am
Torontoist talks to some CMW 2012 performers. Up first is Will Whitwham, aka Lake Forest.
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Carly Maga • Photo by Corbin Smith Mar. 22nd, 11:30 am
The acts to check out on the opening night of CMW 2012.
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Carly Maga Mar. 21st, 12:30 pm
Canadian Music Week kicks off its 30th festival tonight. But is it showing its age?
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Carly Maga Mar. 21st, 11:30 am
Mikaela Dyke's acclaimed verbatim play Dying Hard brings touching stories from rural Newfoundland to the big city of Toronto. And it's about time.
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Carly Maga Mar. 15th, 9:00 am
The sixth annual "festival of creativity" announces its plans.
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Carly Maga Mar. 14th, 2:00 pm
The Tennessee Williams Project is pairing independent theatre companies with a familiar name, but in unfamiliar territory.
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Carly Maga Mar. 14th, 1:00 pm
Tarragon Theatre's latest production turns the 15th century Perrault folktale, Bluebeard , into a comment on modern day morality.
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Carly Maga Mar. 8th, 12:00 pm
An all-star cast and inventive storytelling combine art and journalism in Crows Theatre's Seeds .
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Carly Maga Mar. 1st, 9:00 am
In the second annual Board Game Jam, participants faced a ticking timer as they created an original board game in two days.
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Carly Maga • Photos by Corbin Smith Feb. 28th, 9:00 am
As part of Steam Whistle's UNSIGNED music series, Boys Who Say No released their first full-length album, Contingencies .
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Carly Maga • Photos by Corbin Smith Feb. 27th, 2:45 pm
Esteemed Soulpepper actors trade their classical canon for an underclass comedy in Lee MacDougall's High Life .
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Carly Maga Feb. 27th, 10:30 am
A mash-up of Irish absurdist Samuel Beckett's plays and classical music inspired by his works is pleasantly unpleasant.
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Carly Maga Feb. 23rd, 2:00 pm
Last week, Social Media Week Toronto stole all your communications experts and filled your Twitter and Facebook feeds. But in a few years, it will (or at least, should) be for everyone, everywhere.
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Carly Maga • Photo by Corbin Smith Feb. 22nd, 2:30 pm
Liza Paul and Bahia Watson's two-woman show combines wordplay and another kind of play in a West Indian girl's world.
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Carly Maga Feb. 17th, 1:30 pm
For Potter fans, non-Potter fans, kids, adults, witches, wizards, muggles, squibs, even Parselmouths—Potted Potter is worth your hour.
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Carly Maga Feb. 17th, 10:30 am
Eugene O'Neill's rarely produced one-act Hughie is a bite-size piece of a longer, darker story
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Carly Maga Feb. 15th, 10:00 am
Daniel Clarkson and Jeff Turner can tell the entire story of Harry Potter in 70 minutes, but can they keep all the details straight? We put them to the test.
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Carly Maga Feb. 10th, 1:00 pm
In a rare bit of good news for independent bookstores, money-troubled LGBTQ landmark Glad Day Bookshop has found a group of loyal buyers from the community.
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Carly Maga Feb. 8th, 6:00 pm
The Rhubarb Festival, which opens tomorrow, continues its reign as Canada's oldest celebration of new and experimental theatre, spanning two weeks, with more than 40 performances and over 100 artists.
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Carly Maga Feb. 7th, 3:30 pm
In Penny Plain , Ronnie Burkett celebrates 25 years of puppetry with a beautiful performance in an ugly world.
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Carly Maga Jan. 30th, 10:00 am
At Torontoist we love Q&As and profiles, but sometimes asking a whole bunch of people the same set of questions can be even more revealing. So that’s what we decided to do.
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Carly Maga • Illustration by Chloe Cushman Jan. 29th, 9:00 pm
