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What to Expect at… the 2022 Next Stage Festival
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The Ride Worth Taking: Finding the Joy in Theatre-Making in an Isolated World
I forgot how smart I am. I became jealous of my peers. I became cynical. Theatre stopped being creative, expansive and hopeful.
Pivoting Once More: Next Stage Theatre Festival Goes Online
Next Stage Theatre Festival will be presented online beginning this Wednesday, January 19.
“Loving, Supportive, Kind, Generous”: Remembering Stephen Sondheim in Canada
To take stock of Sondheim’s particular contribution to Canadian theatre, a number of writers and artists gathered on Zoom with theatre critic Karen Fricker to discuss his influence and legacy.
Bingo Halls, Beatles Documentaries, and Land Acknowledgments
So glad to hear that poor-ass, backwoods, racist motherfuckers — who are dumb enough to actually film themselves in the act — still aren’t allowed to murder innocent people of colour in the United States. So there’s that, at least.
It’s Not Me, It’s You — Unless It’s Me
If Canadian Theatre were to say, “it’s not you, it’s me,” it would be true. But has that line ever actually made anyone feel better?
Bringing Back the Backspace: In Conversation with Marjorie Chan and Charissa Wilcox
We wanted an opportunity for more flexible seating so you could have different configurations — we wanted technical upgrades and general upgrades also. Later we recognized the need in the community to have a dance-friendly space. So that’s a need that we’ve found and added. Like with any kind of process, I think we started with an idea and started to break that down. I think we’re still in that process.
The Unexpected Impact of Expectation in Citadel Theatre’s The Fiancée
My expectations are high. It almost feels unfair. Just as my fellow patrons expect me to be some sort of fancy theatre critic, I sit in a fancy theatre and I expect a fancy show.
David Fox: March 24, 1941 – November 13, 2021
I won’t ever do something like this again with this column, but I wanted to do it just this once. For David Fox. Because I fucking love him. And I will fucking miss him.
Finding the Familiar in Die-Nasty’s The Stroganoffs
The building shakes. The whole audience has joined in, one joyful scream in a darkened theatre. This. This is familiar.
Buddies is Planting Seeds of Collaboration through an Exciting Queer Theatre Conference
Meet the team behind the upcoming Q2Q-2: Refusing the Queer Monolith, a digital theatre conference running December 6-10.
Microdosing Normalcy: The Bittersweet Return Home to Hadestown on Broadway
To return to a Canada still starved of this normalcy feels wrong; acrid; frustrating. When I get back to Toronto (or, let’s be real, North York), I’ll simply have to tell my friends and colleagues about the magic of a packed theatre, rows and rows of masks, applause, closeness. They won’t get to feel it themselves for a few months yet, it seems
As If By Fate: Returning to Hell and Re-Opening Hadestown
Broadway actor Jewelle Blackman reflects on the strange and sentimental reality of returning to Hadestown after the pandemic.
A Wild Ride Home with Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer
We aren’t laughing about the events of the past two years. We aren’t even laughing at Jason Kenney himself. We’re simply laughing together.
‘Grappling with Permanence’: In Conversation with Lessons in Temperament
“It’s beautiful and strange, the permanence of it,” says Cushman of Lessons in Temperament. “Every time we chose a take, we had to be, like, ‘okay, that’s the way it is forever.’ We’ve really been grappling with permanence in relation to it.”
What to Expect at…Theatre Passe Muraille
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