For Lessons in Temperament’s James Smith, pianos are partners in vulnerability
“The act of tuning… allows me to find a good balance in terms of how deep I go into certain stories,” says Lessons in Temperament creator James Smith.
“The act of tuning… allows me to find a good balance in terms of how deep I go into certain stories,” says Lessons in Temperament creator James Smith.
It’s not often I’m unable to summon the words for a theatrical review. But it’s also not often that a production swings so widely and hits so assuredly as in The Effect, presented in a dazzling Canadian premiere at Coal Mine Theatre.
For both audience and actor, No Save Points is a gloriously playful theatrical event.
After 31 months of mystery-solving, the finale of Outside the March’s phone-based immersive theatre experience will be a 24-hour extravaganza.
McGee has taken heartbreak, heartache, and a hearty dose of ennui and re-packaged it into an hour and forty minutes of pure theatrical magic.
Through small stories of personal grief and collective memory playwright Clark creates a melancholy snapshot of small-town youth, smartly studded with Grease references and oodles of yearning, sexual energy.
Director Mitchell Cushman’s made meaty, musical magic in Toronto’s east end.
“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.”
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“No” is a word Kim isn’t afraid to use.
Outside the March and The Company Theatre have announced the star of the Canadian premiere of Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem.
It is a rare privilege to be afforded the opportunity to make my race and gender neither invisible nor central.
I couldn’t just put on a moustache and hope for the best. I was having my professional Shakespeare debut as the Dauphin of France at the fucking Stratford Festival of Canada.
“After a day of rehearsal as Lady Macbeth I’m craving chicken hearts, drafts of blood, and things like that.”