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Urban Planner: July 19, 2011
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].
Scott Moore, Tom McGee, and Elijah Fetter in Marat/Sade. Photo by Scarlet O’Neill.
In today’s Urban Planner: join a conversation with a panel of authors at Ben McNally Books; exercise your mind with the Tony Award winning play-within-a-play, Marat/Sade; roll your way into a Vegas-themed improv night; and check out the band Real Estate at the Garrison.
LITERATURE: Head to Ben McNally Books after work to join in a conversation with a panel of authors, illustrators, and essayists. Moderator Julie Wilson will lead a discussion entitled “You Think You Know Me, But You Have No Idea” with Sarah Leavitt, Stacey May Fowles, and Andrew Westoll. Ben McNally Books (366 Bay Street), 6:00 p.m., FREE.
THEATRE: The Tony Award–winning drama-musical Marat/Sade begins a six-day run at Alumnae Theatre today. Soup Can Theatre and director Sarah Thorpe have updated the play—originally set in the 19th century—to take place in McGill University’s Psychiatry Department around 1957. The full name of the play-within-a-play is The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, and it examines “the French Revolution and its unbridled violence through the eyes of eccentric nobleman, sexual deviant, and prolific author, the Marquis de Sade.” Alumnae Theatre Mainspace (70 Berkeley Street), 8:00 p.m., $15.
COMEDY: The heat is making Toronto feel like a desert-bound (albeit more humid) city, and tonight you can get the full experience by checking out a Vegas-themed improv night. Super Lucky Improv is hosting its final show before a summer hiatus, and a roll of the dice will determine how much you pay to get in. Black Swan Tavern (154 Danforth Avenue), 8:00 p.m., $7 (or less).
MUSIC: The band Real Estate is making a stop at the Garrison tonight as part of its North American tour to promote sophomore album Days, which will be released this October. The band is comprised of Martin Courtney, Matthew Mondanile, and Alex Bleeker, along with new live drummer Jackson Pollis. The Garrison (1197 Dundas Street West), 8:30 p.m., $18.50–$20.