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Seems like it's just bad news piled upon bad news for the city's small theatres this fall...

last weekend of this theatre marathon:

This week's weeklies point us to few concerts of musical and cultural import, namely, the Over The Top Fest. Torontoist would just like to emphasize this: The music kicks off tonight with found-sound bad boys The Books at the Abbas-Mo (464 Spadina), New York Times favourites Mice Parade at the Poor Alex (296 Brunswick), and By Divine Right headlining at Sneaks (431 College). The rest of the weekend includes MC Paul Barman, Amy Millan, Republic of Safety, AIDSWolf, Thunderbirds are Now! and a lot more. More on these concerts, and specifically Paul Barman, later.

Perhaps you've seen those sneaky ads for Virgin Mobile on the subway lately? You know, the ones that masquerade as public service ads about STDs and implore you to visit www.curethecatch.ca? Well, Catch 23 has absolutely nothing to do with those irritating advertisements! No siree, Catch 23 is a weekly improv competition that takes place at Clinton's Tavern (corner of Clinton and Bloor) every Monday night.

Sketch comedy troupe Better than Shakespeare may not really be superior to our man Shakes, but they are damn funny. This Montreal-based quintet rocked the Tim Sims Playhouse this fall and now they're back again Friday and Saturday at the Poor Alex. Torontoist e-mailed ringleader Dan Beirne (who used to write the Waiting for Nathan column at tangmonkey) to ask a few pertinent questions about the dark, dry stylings of BTS.

Doyle, a graduate of Northwestern University's theatre program (she was a freshman there when Zach Braff was a senior), returned to her home town of Toronto after graduating and joined Second City, playing in such mainstage shows as Bush League of Justice, Armaget-it-on, and Invasion Free Since 1812. Torontoist caught up with the dynamic Doyle over the weekend and asked a few questions -- e-mail style!

Let's be diplomatic and say its a little of column A and a little of column B.