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A Path in the Right Direction: Stepping into New Shoes as a Multifaceted Artist |
Some pieces in Crow's upcoming season are live only, some are digital only, and some are available in whichever form you’d prefer: this season at Crow’s is here to address “the now,” wherever audiences may choose to listen.
The Art of Not Picking A Lane
Both jobs require strong communication and storytelling. Both fill me with a sense of meaning in a difficult world, and the more I dissect them, the less I am able to find where one ends and the other begins.
How to Return Home: Dear Evan Hansen at TIFF
In my heart there is anger; sadness; grief for my more naïve self. Because after Dear Evan Hansen, I do not feel as if I’ve been found, as the film’s tagline so bravely promised I would be. I feel instead as if I’ve been left behind to atrophy in the Music Box Theatre some five hundred miles away, a nineteen-year-old ghost in an echoing auditorium.
When the Playwright Goes Prose: In Conversation with Jordan Tannahill
The Listeners is not a cult narrative, or a Stephen King-wannabe, or a Lolita aftershock — Tannahill’s second novel is a triumph all its own, posing urgent (and at times beautiful) questions against a distressing context of disinformation.
In Conversation with Alison Wong on ‘nowhen’
Justine Abigail Yu interviews Alison Wong on the creation and artistic significance of ‘nowhen,’ part of Canadian Stage’s Dream in High Park programming.
Fur Chakras, Hugs, and Paying to Self-Tape
Quick reality check: if your biggest problem after the last year and a half is that you’ve missed being hugged, you don’t actually have any fucking problems.
How to Return Home: Blindness by Simon Stephens
As in-person Toronto theatre slowly re-opens, Intermission’s Editors will be sharing personal reflections on the realities of being back in the theatre. These are not criticisms or reviews. They are not blog posts. They are memories of being caught in the middle of a theatre renaissance. They are an archive. They are history.
The Second Toronto Fringe New Young Reviewers Roundup
With just a few days left in the 2021 Toronto Fringe, the second roundup of reviews from the Toronto Fringe New Young Reviewers Program is here!
The First Toronto Fringe New Young Reviewers Roundup
After weeks of workshops and watching shows, the first roundup of reviews from the Toronto Fringe New Young Reviewers Program are here!
Views from the Stage: It Ironically Looks Like Real Life
Theatre artist Brenda Kamino reminisces on her career and her success as an advocate for Non Traditional Casting in this special edition Artist Perspective for the 2021 Toronto Fringe.
Inside the Triumph of the 2021 Toronto Fringe
“We’re coming back. We’re coming back stronger.”
Settlers and Indians
It was summer of 1982, and my parents had enrolled me in Camp Cabot, a day camp run by the St. John’s YMCA. Every morning I, along with the sixty other campers and a dozen teenage counsellors, travelled on rickety school buses to reach the campsite, a vast, wooded area a few kilometres outside the … Continued
It’s a Beautiful Day for Brunch and to Arrest the Cops That Killed Breonna Taylor
Carly Anna Billings and Patrick Teed describe the inspiration for their upcoming Hamilton Fringe show on toxic wokeness and its implications within an anti-Black world.
Renting Cars, Remembering Manson, and Knowing Your Worth
To me, a Leaf Fan cheering for the Habs is like someone cheating on a spouse or partner with their spouse or partner’s least favourite sibling.
Death and the King(‘s Horseman)
“There are bridges to be built. There are stories to be told. There are apologies to be made. There is forgiveness to be offered.”
Let Me Pass This Song to You
I will be with you, listening with you. It’s not something you can do alone.
Meet the 2021 Dora Ancillary Award Winners
Five Ontario-based theatre artists received prestigious awards for their work in the performing arts.