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‘Tis the Season…to Go See a Show

There's no snow for fort-building, and skating is way too dangerous. For a different kind of fun, here's a round-up of holiday performances.

Here we are, officially in mid-December and full-on holiday gear. Outside, the winter season really isn’t beginning to look a lot like Christmas, but fortunately that’s not the case with the seasons of Toronto’s performance companies. There are plenty of options to suit every show-goer during the holidays, be they a connoisseur of the classics, [...]

Against the Odds at the Fringe Lottery

Over 300 Ontario theatre companies, from the fledgling to the famous, played their odds in the 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival Lottery.

“My father used to tell me that art depends on two things, luck and talent,” announces Gideon Arthurs to an eager audience at Theatre Passe Muraille last night. “But for the Fringe only the former applies.” People laugh, but the statement is true. While it’s indisputable that many, many, of the artists involved in the [...]

Come In, Come In, Cosmonaut

Tony Nappo as the titular cosmonaut in The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union. Photo by Bruce Zinger. The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet [...]

Urban Planner: November 5, 2008

MUSIC: Get ready for bright lights and throbbing bass in the library(?) today as the “The Amazing Technicolour Rock Show,” hosted by Toronto punk-house band Kids on TV, hits the stacks. The workshop will show youth how to integrate multimedia and storytelling into their music performances, as part of the Toronto Public Library’s “Make Some [...]