EXHIBITION: Two exhibitions open at Cooper Cole Gallery this evening: a group exhibition, Transmission Lines, featuring American artists Ryan Wallace and Chris Duncan, and a solo exhibition of paintings by Anders Oinonen, People People. Both Wallace and Oinonen will be in attendance at tonight’s opening. Cooper Cole Gallery (1161 Dundas Street West), 6 p.m.–10 p.m., [...]

The ladies are all dressed in black, but the mood is definitely jovial, and it’s one shared by the packed house. Everyone here for WDWMKR’S Irish Wake has come to laugh, and the ladies throwing it for themselves wanted it that way; they’ve decided to call it quits while everyone still remembers their all-female comedy [...]

MOVEMBER: The monthly Tweetgasm meetup at the Gladstone gets its upper lip furry with their annual Movember edition, featuring musical guests Speedboats and Big Explosions, arm-wrestling and wood-chopping contests, a costume contest that will crown the best “lumberjack” couple of the night, and a photo booth to document the growth to date (fake moustaches will [...]

Sex, Religion, and Other Hang-Ups Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson Avenue) October 4–22, Tuesday to Thursday at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday 7 and 9 p.m.; Opening tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 (students/seniors/arts workers) or $25 (general admission) from the box office (416-504-7529) or artsboxoffice.ca We’re sitting in the backstage greenroom at Theatre [...]

FILM FESTIVAL: The Zero Film Festival, a pop-up fest originating in New York that’s highlighted locally made film in London and Los Angeles as well, opened in Toronto last night with a screening of locally shot and locally financed feature film Dead Saints. Tonight, more than a dozen shorts screen, with award-winning international entries mixed [...]

Back row, from left to right: Kayla Lorette, Georgea Brooks-Hancock, and Kathleen Phillips. Front row: Amy Lee and Heather Annis. Comedy fans have been buoyed recently by the success of Bridesmaids, an R-rated comedy featuring women in most of the lead roles—especially considering that the film’s star and co-writer, Saturday Night Live’s Kristen Wiig, was [...]

Mark Sutton and Joe Bill reel audience members in with their improvised banter. Photo by Kevin Thom. This weekend in downtown Toronto, two Hoosiers will drop anchor, bait fishing poles, crack a few beers, and shoot the breeze on any number of topics. The “boat,” however, will be the stage of Comedy Bar, and audience [...]

The performers in Hasta La Vista Danforth! take their final bow, behind the show’s hosts Jan Caruana and James Gangl (far right). “I want to talk about endings, because endings are weird things,” began Robin Archer, the host of one of the last comedy shows ever to be performed by the Bad Dog Theatre Company [...]

In today's Urban Planner: donate your lunch money, learn the applications of discrete math, smell like teen spirit, and send the Sea Captain off on a (landlocked) tour.

Once a year, the folks at Catch 23 improv invite their friends from far and wide to join them in a week-long theatre festival that “is part competitive improv pit fight, part presentation of new formats, and part collaborative adventure.” The third Tournament of Wonders began last Monday and continues tonight and Saturday with performances [...]

Attention residents of the tri-city area: much of the cast of SCTV is reuniting for a single live performance in Toronto on Monday, May 5 at 8 p.m. The occasion is a benefit for the Alumni Fund for Second City cast and crew facing financial or health difficulties. It’s bound to be difficult for the [...]