Aluna Theatre, in association with Nightwood Theatre, is proud to announce the premiere of The Solitudes.
In The City: THE SOLITUDES
Aluna Theatre, in association with Nightwood Theatre, is proud to announce the premiere of The Solitudes.
In Poly Queer Love Ballad, Nina (Anais West), a polyamorous bisexual poet, meets Gabbie (Sara Vicruck), a monogamous lesbian songwriter, at an open mic night. With two microphones, a loop pedal, and an array of instruments, they struggle to reconcile their fierce mutual attraction with their opposing perspectives on love.
What if you could hire someone to pay penance for you? This is what The Apologist, the new play by Colleen Osborn aims to
Factory Theatre opened its latest season with Carmen Aguirre’s Broken Tailbone this past Thursday. This is a co-production with Nightswimming. A rare, intimate journey into the hidden world of Latinx dance halls in Canada, Broken Tailbone explores themes of politics, culture and sexuality through Aguirre’s moving and funny personal stories.
Aluna Theatre‘s CAMINOS 2019 returns to Toronto from October 3 – 13 at Aki Studio and Artscape Daniels Spectrum. This festival focuses on presenting new work by Pan-American, Indigenous and Latinx artists.
As there are many events vying for your attention this weekend, I’m giving you my picks of some of the shows to experience at this year’s festival.
The Alumnae Theatre Company opened its 102nd season with Wendy Wasserstein‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles. Over a span of 20 years, the titular character Heidi and her friends seek to achieve political, professional and personal fulfillment in a rapidly-changing world.
Daniele Bartolini, artistic director of DopoLavoro Teatrale (DLT), premiered a brand-new of the version critically acclaimed walkabout performance – The Stranger 2.0 tonight.
Designed for the first time to include two audience members at a time and featuring an exciting new virtual reality component developed by mixed reality content specialists toasterlab.
I took part in the original version The Stranger 1.0 back in 2014 as part of SummerWorks. It was such a fun experience, I jumped at the chance to ask Bartolini my 5 Questions… about this latest version of the show.
Based on real events, White Heat is a play about who gets sympathy and who doesn’t. The show is written by Graham Isador (VICE, GQ) and directed by Dora Award winner Jill Harper (Pool No Water). It features Dora Award Winning actor and playwright Makambe Simamba (Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers, and Little Brothers) and Tim Walker (Dry Land).
I asked Isador, Simamba and Walker to list their reasons they are “excited to work on White Heat” at SummerWorks Performance Festival this year.
A couple of weeks back, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 282 nominations for the 40th Anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards, which recognize excellence in professional theatre, dance and opera in Toronto.
Next Tuesday, June 25 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 49 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Silver Ticket Award and the Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award will be presented.
Prominent Canadian playwright George F. Walker (Order of Canada, Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award, five-time Dora Award winner) brings his many years of experience to Toronto’s indie theatre scene to direct his acclaimed 2010 dark comedy And So It Goes for Kyanite Theatre.
