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Urban Planner: August 23, 2010
Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to [email protected].
Teenage Katie (Hannah Gross, at left) and her adult self Catherine (Carmen Grant) flank her father (R. H. Thomson) in a scene from Sharon Pollock’s Doc, currently previewing at The Young Centre. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann, courtesy of Soulpepper.
In today’s Urban Planner, Soulpepper has a busy evening at the Young Centre, the Alt.Dot.Comedy night features funny gals Rebecca Kohler and Diana Love, and Finnish classical metal band Apocalyptica will blow your mind—with cellos.
MUSIC: In Friday’s Urban Planner, we wrote about an all-female Weezer cover band; tonight, it’s a Finnish classical metal band, known best for their debut album of covers, Apocalyptica… Plays Metallica By Four Cellos. The quartet has since gone on to play over a thousand concerts around the world, performing their own material, and being joined onstage by metal luminaries like Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Till Lindemann of Rammstein. The Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne Street), doors at 7 p.m., $29–$45.
THEATRE: Most theatres in Toronto are dark on Mondays, but not the Young Centre. In fact, all three of Soulpepper‘s August shows are on stage tonight. The company is currently previewing both Joe Orton’s black farce What the Butler Saw and Sharon Pollock’s psychological drama Doc; they’re also presenting a workshop by the Soulpepper Academy entitled Window on Toronto, a series of scenes about Toronto life as observed by a hot dog vendor. Young Centre for the Performing Arts (55 Mill Street, building 49, Distillery District), various times, various prices; visit Soulpepper‘s website for more info.
COMEDY: Long running alternative stand-up series Alt.Dot.Comedy is hosted by comic (and prolific podcaster) Todd Van Allen tonight, and features funny guys and gals like Rebecca Kohler, Jeff Elliott, and Diana Love. The Rivoli (334 Queen Street West), doors at 8:30 p.m., PWYC.