Well, it was Toronto’s theatre critics, rather than the city’s theatrical performers, who were in the spotlight last week when Bat Boy: The Musical announced that the show was going to close a month ahead of schedule on March 19. Publicist Carrie Sager spelt out the reason for the early end in a press release:Toronto audiences have embraced the half-bat half-boy creature who leapt from the pages of Weekly World News to the stage of......

Death, sickness and resurrection in today's theatre round-up: -- Canada's theatre community is mourning Tom Patterson, the trade-magazine journalist who founded the Stratford Festival of Canada to save his economically-depressed home town in 1953. Patterson died yesterday after battling a long illness. -- If you're hoping to see Bat Boy: The Musical tonight, better call and check with the box office before swooping over to the Bathurst Street Theatre. Several cast members are reportedly "severely......

The classic tale of the half-boy-half-bat has finally arrived in Toronto, with the Hot Feat production of Bat Boy. The story is familiar enough: Boy grows up in cave, meets family, tries to join society, falls in love, so forth and so on. But the surprise ending combined with much Toronto buzz has made Bat Boy a must-see. WIN TICKETS for BatBoy the Musical by emailing TORONTOIST CONTESTS by this Friday, Feb 18th. Please write......

Guess who's coming to town? Well, yes, Santa Claus. But following St. Nick by a month and a half is Bat Boy of Bat Boy: The Musical. Flying in from runs in New York, London and L.A. (and boy are its wings tired, ha, ha), the cult ironic musical -- billed as "a cross between My Fair Lady and Edward Scissorhands" -- is arriving at the Bathurst Street Theatre in early February. Ripped from the......