Tag Archives: Toronto-based indie theatre

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Hughie

Alley Theatre Workshop gambles to win with Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie
Presented by Alley Theatre Workshop
Written by Eugene O’Neill
Directed by David Ferry

Michael Kash in Hughie. Photo by Alley Theatre Workshop.

Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie takes place in a shabby New York City hotel lobby circa 1928. Presented by Alley Theatre Workshop, the moody two-hander directed by David Ferry is [...]

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Pomme Is French For Apple

Pomme pomme girls: Liza Paul and Bahia Watson breeze out at the Tranzac

Liza Paul and Bahia Watson. Photo by Zahra Siddi @ zahrasiddi.tumblr.com.

Pum (n): West Indian slang for a woman’s private parts (short for pum pum).
Liza Paul and Bahia Watson have uncovered a real gem with Pomme Is French For Apple: an honest, intelligent and [...]

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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Pomme Is French For Apple Q&A: Liza Paul and Bahia Watson

Liza Paul and Bahia Watson. Photo by Zahra Siddi at zahrasiddi.tumblr.com.

When two fun-loving friends as accomplished as Liza Paul and Bahia Watson come together to create a show named after the West Indian word for a woman’s private parts (pum), you know it’s a performance worth seeing.
Toronto theatre scenesters will likely know Paul as the associate [...]

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Other People

Other People offers another look at the scandalous lives of struggling New York artists
By Ava Baccari
Directed by Aaron Willis
Written by Christopher Shinn

The cast of Other People. Photo by Mercedes Grundy.

The kids in Christopher Shinn’s play Other People, about a gaggle of broke, twentysomethings holed up in New York’s East Village, are—as you would imagine—not all [...]

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

2012 Next Stage Theatre Festival: Living With Henry

Presented by Beyond Boundaries
Book, music and lyrics by Christopher Wilson
Directed and choreographed by Donna Marie Baratta

Ryan Kelly in Living With Henry.

Christopher Wilson’s Living With Henry is a musical drama about the realities of living with HIV/AIDS today. The main character, Michael (played by Ryan Kelly), learns the “price of nice” when he sleeps with pos-boyfriend [...]

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

2012 Next Stage Theatre Festival Q&A: Jessica Moss

Originally presented at Canadian Stage’s Festival of Ideas and Creation, Theatre Caravel‘s Modern Love takes a look at the ways we connect with and disconnect from each other every day. Here, we talk with writer and solo performer Jessica Moss about the show’s upcoming run at the 2012 Next Stage Theatre Festival (opens January 5, 5:30pm—Factory [...]

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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Best of Toronto Theatre 2011

Theatromania’s top 12 picks

December 6, 2011: 244 Victoria Street renamed the Ed Mirvish Theatre (formerly the Canon).

Looking back, 2011 has been an outstanding year for theatre in Toronto. Here’s a list of our 12 favourite shows in celebration of the coming year. Happy 2012!
1) Another Africa (Volcano Theatre in association with Canadian Stage): Featuring high-energy music, top-notch [...]

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat

The Lower Ossington’s Joseph is not quite a dream, but it will do
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Direction/Musical Direction by Robert Wilkinson

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. Photo by Seanna Kennedy.

The Lower Ossington Theatre is painting the town red and yellow and green and
brown and blue this holiday season with a fun-filled [...]

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

A Very Lupe Christmas: Q&A With Melissa D’Agostino

Get Lupe this holiday with Toronto Fringe favourite Melissa D’Agostino

There’s something about Lupe — the satirical character that won creator and performer Melissa D’Agostino a Canadian Comedy Award nomination for Best Solo Show in 2009. Inspired by D’Agostino’s own upbringing as a second generation Italian Canadian in Toronto’s Little Portugal, Lupe is a South American [...]

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Like The First Time

Adam Seelig’s strange and seductive drama explores a mother’s shifting identity
Presented by One Little Goat Theatre
Written and directed by Adam Seelig
Based on a play by Luigi Pirandello

Cast of Like The First Time by Adam Seelig. L to R: Cathy Murphy, Dov Mickelson, Elva Mai Hoover, Jessica Salgueiro and Andrew Moodie. Photo by Yuri Dojc.

Presented by [...]

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

In The Pines

Murder mystery tour: A dark tale haunts the historic Campbell House Museum
Presented by Yabu No Naka Theatre Co-op/Red One Theatre Collective
Based on Yabu No Naka by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Directed by Brenhan McKibben and Benjamin Blais

Toronto’s Campbell House Museum was built by the Upper Canada Chief of Justice Sir William Campbell in 1822. The Georgian-style mansion is the [...]

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Doc Wuthergloom’s Haunted Medicine Show

Eric Woolfe is fantastically fiendish in this spellbinding solo show
Presented by Eldritch Theatre
Created by Eric Woolfe
Directed by Christine Brubaker

Eric Woolfe as Doc Wuthergloom in Eldrtich Theatre’s Doc Wuthergloom’s Haunted Medicine Show. Photo by Dawn Weaver.

Got ghosts? Look no further than Doctor Pretorius Wutherglom. The 142 year-old travelling exorcist is setting up shop in Toronto, just [...]

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