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Weekend Planner: October 22–23, 2011

In this Weekend Planner: Zombies and sex! It's like a Zack Snyder movie come to life. Learn something new at the "Everything To Do With Sex Show," get spooked at the Toronto Zoo, join the undead as the 9th Annual Zombie Walk takes to the streets, take part in an environmentally friendly scavenger hunt, see three plays and get dinner in one cheap package, party down at the first annual AvroFest, feel just peachy at a Roald Dahl celebration, and enjoy a sexy Halloween burlesque show with Les Coquettes.

SEX: Now that we have your attention, let us tell you about The Everything To Do With Sex Show, featuring such activities as “Got Ass Best Booty Contest,” “The Bad Boy of Hypnosis,” “Bottoms Up, Impact Play,” “I’m A Little Tied Up,” “Hedonistic Lifestyle,” and many more, this show promises to oil those rusty “kinks” [...]

We’re Still Not Completely Sold

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.

HARDSELL 2.0 Factory Theatre (125 Bathurst Street) October 13–23; Tuesdays–Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. $35–$45 HARDSELL 2.0 begins before you know it. In the Factory Theatre lobby, actor and creator Rick Miller mixes and mingles with the arriving audience members, showing off his artwork on the walls and promoting his partnership with [...]

Going Solo on the Factory Line

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.

Anyone who pursues a professional career in the arts usually has a few personal quirks. Many could be described as eccentric, others may tend to ramble or speak their minds without processing, some might even have superstitions like not washing their socks during the run of a show. Rick Miller, an actor and theatre-maker known [...]

CanStage Can’t Con CanCon

Gossip no longer, culture vultures. We’ve finally got confirmation on CanStage’s upcoming season. Like it or not, it looks like the rumours are true. As we reported before, the Bluma Appel Theatre’s rather commercial lineup is entirely free of any Canadian-written shows, which has some folks in quite a tizzy. And as we suspected, CanStage [...]