November 4, 2014 at 4:17 pm

Extra, Extra: Soulpepper’s New Season, Non-Existent Prince Concerts, and Voting for School Trustees

Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not to miss.

Reminding us that the coming months can involve more than sunlessness and complaints about sunlessness, Soulpepper Theatre Company today announced the lineup for its 2015 season. Playgoers will be treated to works dealing with everything from Greek myth to insane asylums to political farce—and some familiar names will be involved (Pamela Sinha, Sarah Ruhl, and Diana Leblanc, to mention just a few).

For those of you who have been waiting outside Massey Hall since 6:30 a.m.: it seems Prince is not, in fact, inside, and that he is not coming, and that he will not be playing a super-secret surprise show for you. But you will always be able to cherish the memory of sending photos to a media outlet of yourself waiting in line for a super-secret Prince show that never happened.
Dylan Reid does some number-crunching and informed speculating over at Spacing, and concludes that “maybe a quarter of voters go to the polls with no idea about who they want to vote for as their school trustee. Roughly half of these choose not to vote at all, and the other half vote randomly.”