A long-awaited book of poetry, Blissful Times, gets launched tonight at Clinton’s by writer, multimedia artist and activist Sandra Alland. We’d like to call Sandra Alland the sweetheart of the Toronto small press scene, but she might kick our asses, so forget that we had that thought. We can safely say that Clinton’s will be full of good cheer tonight for BookThug’s spring launch. Sandra has written three collections of poetry, performed all over......

Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht: Two playwrights with such different styles, but such similarish-sounding last names. These two theatrical trendsetters opened in preview together at The Theatre Centre last night, thanks to a double-bill imaginatively titled Beckett and Brecht. The Brecht portion of the evening is actually diluted Bertie. BéBé: The Women Behind Brecht is a show about B.B.'s collaborations with women playwrights, conceived, directed and co-written by Jennifer Capraru and presented by Theatre Asylum.......