Australia’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.
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Returning to The Theatre Centre in Toronto, Shakespeare BASH’d is shifting gears from one of the most well-known Shakespeare plays to one of the least known or performed.
The Two Noble Kinsmen, a collaboration between playwrights Shakespeare and John Fletcher, explores many of the same themes we expect, including love, honour, and duty. But in this quirky play, those familiar topics are shown to us from new and unfamiliar perspectives, challenging expected ideas of gender, sexuality, romance, and ceremony.
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Graham Isador has a degenerative eye disease. Because there are no visual identifiers for the condition, people don’t think he’s losing his sight. They think he’s an asshole. Blending experimental music and comedic storytelling, Short Sighted is an attempt to explain vision loss using sound.
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Presented by Show One Productions, Slava’s Snowshow returns to Toronto for the first time since 2018. The scruffy, charming troupe of clowns will take audiences on a spellbinding adventure, unleashing good-humored chaos amidst enchanting, contemplative moments before roaring to its legendary finale. Audiences of all ages will enjoy the production which is a charming show for the holiday season.
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JAYU Canada has announced its 12th annual Human Rights Film Festival+ 2023 (HRFF+). This year, HRFF+ will present 4 feature length documentaries and 4 short films.
HRFF+ is an initiative of JAYU, a charity that shares human rights stories through the arts. The Human Rights Film Festival is committed to values of inclusivity and accessibility for all guests, staff, volunteers and artists.
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The Shorts Not Pants Film Festival returns for its 11th year with a carefully curated selection of outstanding short films from 20 countries: 27 Narrative, 21 Animation, and 9 Documentary short films; 20 of those being Canadian.
As I am unable to watch all the films, I have chosen 5 films from all three categories to give you a ‘taste’ of the excellent calibre of films the festival will present.
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Soundstreams’ The Bright Divide is a new concert experience featuring Rothko Chapel by American composer Morton Feldman, and the world premiere of mark by Canadian composer Cecilia Livingston with original text by Duncan McFarlane.
The Bright Divide is inspired by the work of two artistic masters: Mark Rothko, one of the most important painters of the 20th century and one of the finest artists of all time, whose richly colourful works continue to captivate viewers; and Feldman, a contemporary of Rothko, and a major figure in 20th-century classical music.
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A haunting play about three brides who share two things in common: they all married the same man, and they are all dead.
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Terra Bruce Productions presents The Wild Rovers, a new musical inspired by the music and magic of the beloved Irish Rovers.
The Wild Rovers is a mad-cap adventure that sees a famed band whisked away to a fantastical land of Athunia, not to be confused with their sworn enemy, Ethunia (and yes, they are pronounced exactly the same). These fictional countries find themselves on the brink of war and the loveable, hard-working band must help them find a path to peace through song.
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Presented by The Theatre Centre, the 2023 edition of the Comedy Is Art Festival offers five nights of excellent comedy and good vibes curated by comedian and storyteller Liza Paul.
Below is a glimpse at festival offerings including stand-up, music, improv, and sketch. Plenty of ways to enjoy a good laugh.
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