Posts Filed Under: “comedy bar”
The award-winning comedy duo is performing in one more show Wednesday night after a successful run at the 2013 Sketch Comedy Festival.
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Laura Godfrey • Photo by Corbin Smith
New to Toronto's comedy scene, Rasmussen is getting ready to show off her signature solo act.
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Chris Dart • Photo by Corbin Smith
In today's Urban Planner: Talking about the future of Toronto, a special tribute to playwright Sarah Kane, Villains and Vixens shows the dark and sexy side of musical theatre, and three comedy troupes trade their material in Switch-Off.
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Jessica Buck
In today's Urban Planner: hundreds of tubas at Nathan Phillips Square, This Guy, This Girl art exhibit launches at Steam Whistle, and Egg Zeppelin performs with special guests (and bacon).
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Jessica Buck
Today: Bird Brains migrate south; Toronto Masque Theatre and Art & Lies Productions both do opera mash-ups; Pat Thornton begins his 24-hour stand-up set; and musical up-and-comers Wordburglar, Digits, and the Big Sound orchestra.
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Steve Fisher
A local comic gets ready for his fourth annual 24-hour comedy marathon, to benefit the Stephen Lewis Foundation.
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Chris Dart • Photo by Corbin Smith
Today: buy crafts at the Moose Show, the Trinity College Dramatic Society presents Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, writers read their works at WordStage, and the Switch Off sketch comedy battle goes down at Comedy Bar.
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Jessica Buck
Two stars from HBO's Eastbound and Down spent the weekend at Comedy Bar, to kick off Toronto's new improv fest.
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Chris Dart • Photos by Corbin Smith
Dungeons and Dragons Live brings tabletop role-playing out of the basement and into Comedy Bar.
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Natalie Zina Walschots
Today: Dungeons and Dragons live on stage, Bookclub-in-a-Box wants you to meet author Joshua Henkin, and things heat up at the Rochester.
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Jessica Buck
For the second time, we highlight Toronto-based female comedians who are among the best at what they do.
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Steve Fisher • Photos by Corbin Smith
In today's Urban Planner: fishing in Toronto, celebrating disposable films, and Sketch Com-Ageddon.
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Jessica Buck
Local comedians celebrated their own, hunted werewolves, and gave birth to the antichrist at Saturday's Sketchiest Sketch Show.
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Chris Dart • Photos by Corbin Smith
Bret "The Hitman" Hart judged a Catch-23 improv show at Comedy Bar.
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Kevin Scott • Photos by Corbin Smith
Comedy Bar has opened a second stage, and established comedy outfits are decamping from other local venues to fill it. We met with some of them to find out why.
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Steve Fisher
In today's UP: the Word Festival's 76 hours of Shakespeare & the King James Bible; (actual) Brothers of the Weird; Woody Allen's Death: A Play is Arts & Lies' first stage baby; Greg Proops is Comedy Bar's 3rd anniversary guest; and Maylee & Pegwee Power fundraise to get to Europe.
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Steve Fisher
Pat Thornton pulls off his third annual 24-hour jokefest for charity.
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Kelli Korducki and Steve Fisher • Photos by Corbin Smith
In today's Urban Planner: Pat Thornton kicks off 24 hours of comedy for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, Toronto Public Library's History Matters Lectures address Building Postwar Toronto, Studio 180 and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre take part in a worldwide play reading, and the Cream of Comedy show will anoint a new up-and-comer.
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Steve Fisher
