With field recordings, audio effects, and a well timed air horn Explosions for the 21st Century uses sound design to explore contemporary
culture. Written and performed by Chris Ross-Ewart (Yale School of Drama) and directed by Graham Isador (Pressgang Theatre) the show is a real time, exploration of why we make sound and how we listen. READ MORE
Artistic Director and co-founder of Re:Current Theatre Brian Postalian latest project, The Smile Off Your Face, will premiere at SummerWorks Performance Festival this week. This performance piece starts from an unusual position for the audience member: he or she is alone, in a wheelchair, hands tied and blindfolded. Surrounded by eight performers, embark on a one-of-a-kind journey that’s all about you.
With such an interesting set up for this performance, I wanted to know more. Here is what Postalian shared with me. READ MORE
The Living Ritual – International Indigenous Performing Arts Festival – taking place in Tkaronto (Toronto) kicks off tonight and runs until July 27 at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre. READ MORE
Pressgang Theatre is producing Jillian Welsh‘s No Place at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival. Written and performed by Welsh (Second City House Co., RISK! Podcast) and directed by Shari Hollett (For the Record, Radio: 30, Second City), the show weaves interconnected stories for a brutally honest and painfully funny examination of the things we take with us and the things we leave behind. READ MORE
Musical theatre company Angelwalk Theatre celebrates Canada’s 150th with the world premiere of Everybody’s Got A Story: A Celebration of Canadian Women in Music. A tribute to the nation’s strong history of women in music, the concert runs Thursday June 15 to Saturday June 17 at 8pm nightly in the brand-new Lyric Theatre at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. READ MORE
commonplacetheatre presents No Bombs on Mondays (or, the Dandelion Queen) at The Collective Space from June 1 – 10, 2017. The play, written by Devon Allen Jackson, is commonplacetheatre’s second production of their 2017 season where all of the shows have been written by emerging Canadian Playwrights.
To learn more about commonplacetheatre, their goals, and their upcoming show, Artistic Director Chantel Martin is featured in this 5 Questions With... series. READ MORE
In Situational Anarchy, Graham Isador (Soulpepper Playwright’s Unit, VICE) shares stories about his teenage years spent on internet message boards, in strip mall record stores, and at concerts in basement and backrooms. Runner up for Outstanding Production at the 2016 Summerworks festival the show is about the growing pains of adolescence and the inevitable heartbreak of teenage conviction. READ MORE
“There is no longer any shame in hypocrisy; it is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue… hypocrisy is a privileged vice which closes the mouth of everyone, and enjoys in peace a sovereign impunity.” READ MORE
The fourth edition of the RISER Project includes playwright and director Marilo Nuñez‘s El Retorno/I Return. READ MORE
With theatre season continuing in Toronto, it is time for another edition of this personally curated Theatre Crawl listing. The variety of shows currently on-stage include reinterpretations of Shakespeare, and also works based on Robert Munsch’s stories. READ MORE