Some biggish news announced this week in regards to two of this city's major theatres: Passe Muraille and CanStage (oh, I'm sorry, I mean "The Canadian Stage Company"—more on that later). Let's start with Passe Muraille, the plucky underdog. Probably the biggest morceau is that they're kicking off their 40th season with a remount of Michael Healey's ridiculously successful The Drawer Boy. If you missed all the (admittedly numerous) previous opportunities to see this which......

'Plague City: Sars in Toronto' is currently being shot throughout the city. From the release:"We started developing this project in the middle of the SARS crisis," said Executive Producer Jon Slan. "For me, it was the first time Toronto appeared on the world stage, albeit infamously." So they're saying that while the city was being ravaged by a terrible plague and tourist-frightening infamy, they were already writing the script for the killing and thrilling TV......