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Necessary Angel has just announced a totally cool event planned to take place on March 3, 2008. Three playwrights will be given the opening lines for a new play. Each playwright will have 4 hours in which to write said play, after which three different teams will have 5 hours to rehearse the works. When those 5 hours are up, the plays have to be performed at Necessary Angel's annual gala at the Capitol...

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.

Of all the shows that have opened in Toronto in the past week or so (Bea’s Niece, Little Dragon, Swimming in the Shallows), none have received as consistently good notices as Trout Stanley, the new play by Claudia Dey on at Factory Theatre. "It's like meeting a spellbinding person at a party and finding that you can't get them out of your mind the next day," writes Richard Ouzounian in the Star. (And that’s one of the less positive reviews, see: Globe and Mail, National Post.)

And speaking of Canuck women and theatre, if you happen to be popping by London, England, in the next little while, Kim Cattrall is about to star in a play about euthanasia called Whose Life is it Anyway? directed by British stage legend Peter Hall. Casting the actress best known as Samantha from Sex and the City as a paralysed woman who has no feeling below her neck has got to be the ultimate in casting against type, no?

the target audience for this let's-discover-Sondheim cabaret.)But wait! That's not all. Come January, Holmes is shuffling over to Factory Theatre to direct Claudia Dey's Trout Stanley.