Missed it? Fear not, Torontoist was there for day two of CMW, and we report. Jenn Grant FROM: Halifax, NS (by way of Prince Edward Island) PERFORMED: Thursday, 10 p.m. at The Mod Club Pre-Show Hype: Reasonably high. Crowd: Apparently something about Grant’s music really speaks to women. The first three or four rows of [...]

Long Day’s Journey Into Night Young Centre for the Performing Arts (55 Mill Street) February 14 to March 31 $22–$68 The playwright’s personal history features prominently in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill’s landmark classic of American theatre. For Soulpepper’s production of the play, which opened February 23, there are multiple layers of history [...]

High Life Young Centre for the Performing Arts (55 Mill Street) February 13 to March 28 Various evenings at 7:30 p.m. and matinees at 1:30 p.m. $22 -$68 The characters in Soulpepper Theatre’s latest production put the classical company, and its name, in a new light: while some traditional plays have a bland reputation, these [...]

As far as live acts go, the Blue Man Group would seem to fall somewhere between a ‘90s Lollapalooza side stage oddity and an indisputably bitchin’ laser show. Stemming from this altogether radical branch of entertainment, the resulting performance is a cavalcade of flashing lights, pulsating rhythms, and perhaps most surprisingly, hearty laughs.

The cast of Forests, in the initial dinner celebration scene. The guests, and even the expectant parents, are blissfully unaware of the decades-old familial trauma that’s part of the forthcoming child’s birthright. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann. Forests In the opening scene of Québécois (and Governor General Award–winning) playwright Wajdi Mouawad’s new play, Forests, his [...]

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 [...]

The students of Our Class at play, before bigotry drives their adult selves apart. Photo by John Karastamatis. Our Class In Studio 180‘s Canadian premiere of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s 2010 play Our Class, 10 Polish schoolchildren—five Roman Catholics, five Jews—grow into adults who do horrible things to each other: aggression, rape, murder, and one especially horrible [...]

Jack Langedijk investigates a mysterious sound in the night. Ghost Stories Approaching a predominantly cinematic genre such as horror to create a stage production is an ambitious endeavour—though not at all an impossible one. Not long ago, in fact, Toronto made that argument loud and clear with the four-part thrill ride The Mill, which proved [...]

Albert Schultz and Krystin Pellerin. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann. Our Town In theatre, there are a few classics⎯The Crucible by Arthur Miller, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Antigone by Sophocles, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, and anything by Shakespeare are a few. These are plays that [...]

From March 9 to 13, Torontoist is covering the crap out of Canadian Music Week, with daily concert and film previews, reviews of the latest action, words with your favourite and soon-to-be-favourite bands, and more. Opopo played the Indie Love Radio show at the Royal York on Friday afternoon. Photo by Corbin Smith/Torontoist. Friday and [...]

From March 9 to 13, Torontoist is covering the crap out of Canadian Music Week, with daily concert and film previews, reviews of the latest action, words with your favourite and soon-to-be-favourite bands, and more. Miracle Fortress at Lee’s Palace. Photo by Corbin Smith/Torontoist. Did you make it out to CMW day two last night? [...]

From March 9 to 13, Torontoist is covering the crap out of Canadian Music Week, with daily concert and film previews, reviews of the latest action, words with your favourite and soon-to-be-favourite bands, and more. Montreal’s Half Moon Run were one of the best surprises of CMW’s first night. Photo courtesy of Half Moon Run. [...]