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Carly Anna Billings
Carly Anna Billings is grateful for & owes everything she is to the first peoples of this land acknowledged & unacknowledged, recorded & unrecorded. Born, bred & based in Hamilton, the traditional lands of her people the Missisaugas of the Credit, Carly is a co-founder of Afterlife Theatre. An actor, singer, comedian, storyteller, podcaster & vintage/antique curator, she has spent her emerging career on stages from Charlottetown to Hamilton and back again.
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iPhoto caption: The cast of Fat Fables. Photo by Roya DelSol.
SummerWorks Performance Festival announces 2025 lineup
Taking place from August 7 to 17, the 2025 festival features more than 35 projects and over 200 artists.
iPhoto caption: The company of 'The Frogs.' Photo by Dahlia Katz.
Staged inches from the audience by director Griffin Hewitt, the show commendably captures the free-wheeling, anarchic spirit of the text. It’s a toad-ally great opportunity to see this rarity in the froggy flesh.
iPhoto caption: Jeff Lillico as Ralph with Yoshie Bancroft as Mitsue in 'Forgiveness.' Photo by David Hou.
REVIEW: Stratford Festival’s Forgiveness tells a deeply personal story on a sprawling scale
Presented in an increasingly tense political moment, Forgiveness resonates on a level that is part reflection, part warning.
iPhoto caption: L: Lara Arabian in promo still for 'Siranoush.' Photo by Robert J. Brodey.
R: Babz Johnston as Ginger Spice in Wannabe: A Spice Girls Tribute. Photo by Screamsmedia.
“It feels lovely to be in this curated window of [the festival],” says Siranoush writer-performer Lara Arabian. "We are excited to have a conversation with the Fringe audience.”
iPhoto caption: Photo courtesy of Luminato Festival.
REVIEW: Is Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree worth seeing twice at Luminato?
Crouch tests the limits of theatrical representation, improvisation, and authorship. While I’m usually a sucker for exactly those types of experiments, I ultimately found An Oak Tree a bit underwhelming.
iPhoto caption: Jaime Lujan in 'Reina.' Photo by Eden Graham.
REVIEW: Documenting seven Toronto indie shows, from Factory Theatre to the Tranzac Club and beyond
I’ve started writing brief reviews of Toronto productions Intermission isn’t otherwise covering, and stowing them away until I collect enough to publish in a batch. And now here I am, with seven.
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.
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