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Since last week's Drama Club, two very interesting shows have opened near Queen and Bathurst. Katherine Mansfield opened at Factory on Friday, while Tijuana Cure had its debut at Passe Muraille on Wednesday. Both shows use very minimal props and costumes, often relying on physicality to aid their storytelling. Both shows are rentals from impressive local companies (if ones at different stages in their careers). Theatre Smith-Gilmour, whose current play is a reworking of last year's The Mansfield Project, have been critical darlings since the 1980s and have wowed audiences with their stage adaptations of Chekhov's prose fiction. Theatre Smash is a much younger company that's only been producing plays since 2006, but it has already started getting attention for solid productions such as Norway, Today.

Good news from the lovely, no-longer-precarious Theatre Passe Muraille. They—unlike a government or bank near you—have a surplus. It isn’t much (just under forty thousand dollars for the 2007/2008 fiscal year), but given that the theatre seemed in serious financial trouble when the city purchased their building only a year and a half ago, this is a heartening turning-of-the-corner. Against the backdrop of a precarious economy and cutbacks at other arts organizations, we are especially glad to learn that TPM is back on its feet.

Like its name suggests, Atomic Vaudeville presents a style of performance designed to wake audiences up. Combining theatre, comedy, music, dance, and puppetry with a healthy dose of vulgarity, the Victoria-based troupe detonates in Toronto in a big way this month. Not only is their award-winning show Legoland playing at Theatre Passe Muraille from November 14 to December 6, but on Sunday, November 30, they are also mounting a local installment of their monthly Vaudeville Cabaret. In order to ensure that the cabaret has a truly Torontonian flair, Atomic Vaudeville is offering local performers from all disciplines and experience levels a chance to join their ensemble.

TRANSIT: While your SUV is in the shop, why don't you participate in an open discussion on public transit in Toronto? Metrolinx (an agency of the Province of Ontario) has released the first draft of their 25-year plan for public transportation. It's titled The Big Move: Transforming Transportation in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, and they want to hear what you think of it, so head down to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (after having thoroughly read the 114-page draft regional transportation plan and registered in advance on-line). Metro Toronto Convention Centre (255 Front Street West), 5–9 p.m., FREE.

MUSIC: Tonight's No Shame music showcase is over at the Silver Dollar Room, and will serve as a Pop Montréal preview for those lucky enough to attend the festival this weekend (and presumably as some sort of compensation for those who are not). Toronto favourite the Rural Alberta Advantage will be playing, along with the similarly indie pop groups Hooded Fang and Mt. Royal. The Silver Dollar Room (486 Spadina Avenue), 9 p.m., $7.

In a bold move on Tuesday night, city council voted in favour purchasing 16 Ryerson Avenue, the historic building which currently houses Theatre Passe Muraille. As part of the deal, Passe Muraille will lease the space from the city, ensuring that it is able to remain open indefinitely. The well-respected alternative theatre (the first of its kind in the city) has been experiencing financial difficulties of late, so this new deal allows it to retire its significant deficit and focus on producing new works. Although the company itself will no longer own the building, all day-to-day running of the theatre will be left to the company and kept free from City Hall meddling.

Valentine's Day is less than a week away - are you still stuck for date ideas? Well, Torontoist, along with Theatre Passe Muraille and Random House, are here to help you out. We have five pairs of tickets to give away for the The Sheep and the Whale, the new play at Passe Muraille, for the night of February 14th at 8:00pm.

news and reviews, go visit JKelly - he saw the show on Broadway a few weeks ago and he hasn't been able to shut up about it since.

is a pretty awesome play. And for all the zillions of productions we've seen of it, good and bad, we have never seen one man attempt the whole enchilada all by his lonesome.

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

Tonight is the 2005 Toronto Fringe lottery party, the event where the plays that will be appear in the theatre festival next summer are selected at random. Torontoist will be at the Tranzac club at 7 p.m. crossing her fingers that her one-woman show – Adventures of a Blog Girl in Search of God – gets picked and wishes best of luck to all local theatricals in the draw.

Well, fear not! You're just a hop, skip and a jump away from Super Queen Market, the convenience store located at 596 Queen St. W. Conveniently close to both Theatre Passe Muraille AND Factory Theatre (still showing Claudia Dey's faboo Trout Stanley), Super Queen Market is one of a dozen or so places where Western Canadian immigrants and the men and women who love them can procure Old Dutch Chips in Toronto. A full list of these stores follows, but it should also be noted that you can order a box full of Old Dutch chips online at www.olddutchfoods.ca and get it delivered right to the door of your basement apartment.

But what about the show? The first act of Small Returns -- a surreal my-worst-job-ever tale about debt and Dieppe that closes this weekend -- was decent with some really charismatic performances by Jordan Pettle and Rosemary Dunsmore. Alas, Torontoist can’t tell you how the second act was because Ghandi’s on Queen closes at 10 p.m. and we had a real hankering for some Saag Paneer and Butter Chicken.

There’s no guarantees with this show, Richmond’s second to make it down the 401. But with a title like Small Returns, it’s an investment that you know will at least live up to its billing.