events
Weekend Planner: May 26–27, 2012
Everybody's favourite ginger returns for a one-night performance of Redheaded Stepchild. Photo courtesy of Johnnie Walker.
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cityscape
Opening the Doors on Toronto
Behind-the-scenes corners of the historic Bay building will be available for exploring this weekend. Photo by Metrix X from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
It’s one of our city’s best annual events: Doors Open Toronto, wherein we all get to explore the nooks, crannies, and usually hidden corners of buildings we generally can’t access. There are more than 135 buildings opening their doors this year, and among them are several dozen new ones that haven’t been on the list before.
Here are some highlights from that list—our picks for the best of the sites that are new to Doors Open, many of which are also therefore uncharted territory for all of us.
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culture
A Play on Few Words
From left to right: Matt Baram, Naomi Snieckus, and Ron Pederson. Photo by May Truong.
Script Tease
Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson Avenue)
May 28–June 3, various times
$15–$20
Here’s how a Script Tease works: Ten playwrights submit the first two pages of a new play. Those pages are sealed in individual envelopes. Over the course of a week, three performers from the renowned improv theatre company The National Theatre of the World—Ron Pederson, Naomi Snieckus, and Matt Baram—open each envelope and read its contents for the first time in front of an audience. They are then tasked with immediately improvising the rest of the work over the course of roughly an hour. This year marks the second edition of the event, which starts on Monday and runs until June 3 at Theatre Passe Muraille. We spoke with three participants: performer Ron Pederson, and playwrights Scott Thompson (yes, that Scott Thompson) and Maja Ardal.
events
Urban Planner: May 25, 2012
Marchers at last year's inaugural SlutWalk. Photo by Nick Kozak/Torontoist.
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politics
Thoughts on the 2012 Royal Visit
By one o’clock in the afternoon on May 22, two entirely opposing groups of spectators had formed in the Distillery District awaiting the arrival of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. One of them lined Trinity Street all the way down to Distillery Lane: camera-toting clumps of people checking watches and straining to see back toward the main gate as broadcast crews took position. Elsewhere, another group—much smaller, but no less intent—had already come together at the south end of the area, across the parking lot from where the government reception was about to begin. They too were there to see the royals, but placards with messages like “Sever the Ties,” and the watchful presence of a riot squad, indicated that their reasons weren’t entirely welcoming.
In its small measure, it was a condensed sampling of the reception Charles and Camilla have encountered throughout their 2012 tour of Canada, from New Brunswick to Toronto and on to Saskatchewan. And for Canadians, it was also a taste of our country’s lamentable priorities.
Urban Planner: May 24, 2012
Urban Planner: May 23, 2012
Paintfight Brings Colourful Attention to East Danforth
A ten-minute paint battle soaked the Danforth's "forgotten stretch."
Urban Planner: May 22, 2012
Long Weekend Planner: May 19–21, 2012
Urban Planner: May 18, 2012
Urban Planner: May 17, 2012
CONTACT 2012: The View from the Street
Capturing the smell of the city in images.
Urban Planner: May 16, 2012
For Leonard Cohen, What Goes Around Comes Around
The Canadian poet, novelist, and musician was honoured with the Glenn Gould Prize.
Urban Planner: May 15, 2012
Urban Planner: May 14, 2012
Weekend Planner: May 12–13, 2012
Chewing the Fat With Matthew Lillard
Urban Planner: May 11, 2012
