Ending their record-breaking season, Crow’s Theatre partners with the Grand Theatre to co-produce the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, Eboni Booth’s deeply affirming Primary Trust.
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Ending their record-breaking season, Crow’s Theatre partners with the Grand Theatre to co-produce the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, Eboni Booth’s deeply affirming Primary Trust.
READ MOREThe Canada Ireland Foundation (CIF) brings the second annual Bealtaine Theatre Festival to Toronto, featuring Canadian premieres of some of Ireland’s most captivating contemporary theatre productions.
READ MOREThere is something to be said for getting out to enjoy outdoor theatre in the Summer months.
Although I may stay ‘close to home’ in other months, now is the time when I enjoy venturing out to various neighbourhoods of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to enjoy some al fresco performances.
Over the past month, I have enjoyed three great outdoor productions.
READ MORECurrently in Toronto, we have The Little Prince: A Physical Theatre Adaptation, a groundbreaking new production at Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM). It is one a truly lovely experience for theatre and The Little Prince fans alike.
READ MOREAluna Theatre presents its 6th edition of the RUTAS International Performing Arts Festival this month. For two weeks, RUTAS will present a variety of theatre and dance performances, installations, workshops, and a three day gathering in partnership with Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, York University, Hemispheric Encounters, and the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition (CALTAC).
READ MOREIsle of Demons is a story by Governor General Award-winning playwright Robert Chafe. It tells the incredible but true story of Marguerite de la Roque who was abandoned on a remote island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1542. Part tragedy, part thriller, this play has premiered in Toronto thanks to the Guild Festival Theatre.
READ MOREStep into the world of The Masterclass and prepare to be immersed in a unique experience. The show revolves around Nathan Bridgets (Kyle Claeys), “a multifaceted Canadian artist renowned for his contributions to acting, directing, and theatre theory”. Held in a private studio, this ‘masterclass’ is an intimate journey into his acclaimed acting technique, as detailed in his bestselling book ‘An Actor Does NOT Prepare.’
READ MOREAward-Winning Kazu Kusano is making her Toronto Fringe Festival debut with her solo comedic drama Pretty Beast.
Growing up in a dysfunctional family in Japan, Kazu dreams of escape. Raised by a distant, alcoholic father, and a mother suffering from schizophrenia, Kazu quickly learned to use humor to heal her wounds and process her trauma.
Despite the odds, she discovers her voice and sense of purpose in comedy. Armed with her newfound superpower, she embarks on an internal journey to find self-acceptance—and overseas to find a new life.
READ MOREAustralia’s Back to Back Theatre brings The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes to Toronto via Canadian Stage, giving us a rare chance to experience their internationally celebrated work.
READ MOREIn an attic of an older building in Toronto, we are tranpsorted to late 19th century London, England.
Wren Theatre‘s production of The Elephant Man reminds us of John Merrick (Jordan Imray), as he is known in the play by Bernard Pomerance. Merrick, a horribly deformed young man – living with a rare skin and bone diseases – becomes the star freak attraction in traveling sideshows. Found abandoned and helpless, he is admitted to London’s prestigious Whitechapel Hospital.
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