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Urban Planner: February 24, 2012

In today's UP: your last chance to see a lot of plays, and your first chance to celebrate a lot of new albums.

THEATRE: Last chance theatre round-up! RedOneTheatre’s postponed, shortened, and relocated run of Pvt. WARS ends tonight with two shows (The Department, 1389 Dundas Street West, 7 p.m and 9 p.m., $20). A similarly short run of Beckett: Feck It! (which we loved) wraps Saturday (Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley Street, 8 p.m., $22–$49). Necessary Angel’s [...]

Urban Planner: January 9, 2012

To do today: Michael Ondaatje on adapting his work for the stage; Trampoline Hall on worms and cults; Next Stage continues celebrating theatre; and Second City, the newbie edition.

LECTURE: Two Canadian giants in their respective fields—author Michael Ondaatje and theatre creator Daniel Brooks—will be speaking about the process of adapting Ondaatje’s novel Divisadero into a play. David Young, the Reference Library’s most recent playwright in residence, will be interviewing the creative duo. Toronto Reference Library Beeton Auditorium (789 Yonge Street), 7 p.m., FREE. [...]

Urban Planner: February 18, 2011

In today's Urban Planner, Metrolinx is urged to go electric, black writers discuss what happened to the spark, The Rock and the Knighthawks joust for supremacy, Divisadero's closing weekend is a hot ticket, and local bands try plugged and unplugged at the 'Shoe.

Divisadero, a Tricky Jump from Page to Stage

L-R: Liane Balaban (as Claire), Justin Rutledge (as Coop), and Maggie Huculak (as Anna) in Divisadero: a performance. Memories⎯like butterflies, eternal youth, and the Road Runner⎯are difficult to capture. They transform at an uncontrollable pace, jolt back and forth across years or miles, and while some moments remain painfully detailed, others quickly lose significance and [...]

Urban Planner: February 8, 2011

Today in Toronto: poets share some new work, three quiet blue dudes rock out, Michael Ondaatje debuts his new play, and Simpsons enthusiasts get romantic.

Urban Planner: November 6, 2009

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Still from Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil, the opener for Jean-Pierre Gorin’s month-long series [...]