Posts Filed Under: “Factory Theatre”
Last year's SummerWorks hit returns with the same cautionary tale about the Toronto real estate market's many risks.
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Carly Maga
Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata—a musical created from ads on Craigslist—delivers joy, sadness, and a whole lot of creeps.
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Carly Maga
The company, recently plagued by controversy, opens a new chapter with a play that goes back to Nina Lee Aquino's roots.
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Carly Maga
In today's Urban Planner: evening Hymns and Sean Frey mix music and projection art, finding happiness with modern Buddhism, Sidney York sneak previews a new album, and Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata opens at Factory Theatre.
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Jessica Buck
Nominated for: losing their community's trust.
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Steve Fisher • Illustration by Brett Lamb
David Cronenberg's early classic is set in Toronto, and it's not hard to tell.
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David Fleischer
Today: the annual fall Bibliobash, My Second Smile at the Factory Theatre, and Tap Dogs come to Toronto for a limited time.
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Jessica Buck
If you've been having a hard time tracking the ongoing Factory Theatre crisis, here's a recap of recent developments—and why one of our own theatre critics has decided to join the boycott.
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Steve Fisher
Late last week, news broke that Ken Gass, who founded Factory Theatre and returned to save it decades later, had been summarily fired by its current board of directors. We spoke to the director and producer about the conflict that led to his dismissal, and the firestorm it's ignited.
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Steve Fisher
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
This family comedy straddles morality and cultures, but gets lost in the journey.
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Carly Maga
In Penny Plain, Ronnie Burkett celebrates 25 years of puppetry with a beautiful performance in an ugly world.
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Carly Maga
Factory Theatre stages a rare but uneven production of Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters.
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Carly Maga
HARDSELL 2.0 is a totally revamped version of Rick Miller's 2009 show exploring the pervasiveness of marketing and advertising. Unfortunately, this pitch still has a few holes.
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Carly Maga
Rick Miller continues his solo show three-peat with Bigger Than Jesus, a show worthy of resurrection.
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Carly Maga
Rick Miller has spent years touring the world in shows both big and small, but now he's back in Toronto with a three-peat of solo shows at Factory Theatre.
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Carly Maga • Photos by Lodoe-Laura Haines-Wangda
Rick Miller's international hit MacHomer is back in Toronto, and even after all these years, there still wasn't a boo-urns in the house.
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Carly Maga
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Johnnie Walker
