Theatre This Week: April 22 – 28
These are the plays to see in Toronto for the week of April 22th – 28th, 2019.
What I Wish I’d Known: Michael Healey
I was a better artist once I got on the drugs and the chat.
Spotlight: Mike Ross
“It’s got to be words first, ’what’s being said here?’ Setting other people’s words to music is what I’ve always done, and this is the apex of that”
The Places I Call Home
My desire to leave the city I had grown up in was born out of instinct.
Casting Announcement: Tarragon Theatre’s 2018 Productions
Tarragon Theatre has announced their casting for the productions in the second half of their 2017/2018 season.
There’s More Than One Way to Climb a Wall
Every body I had seen on stage had a symmetry to it, a grace in its movement. I had neither of these qualities. My right leg is a prosthetic.
Spotlight: Tom Rooney
When Tom steps on stage, the atmosphere in the theatre changes. It’s palpable.
Masculinity and Shakespearean Fuckboys
Demetrius is an entitled, possessive, insensitive womanizer who holds a position of power in a man’s world. He takes advantage of the male-dominated society in which he lives, and, in the end, he wins.
How Do We Document Non-Traditional Theatre?
As we move into a world where more and more non-traditional and immersive theatre is being created, it’s important to ask: how are the creators of these stories documenting them so that other artists can benefit?
FaceApp, Crane Girl, and Jon Kaplan
There won’t be any replacement. There was only Jon.
Rewriting Shakespeare
It would have been a big enough task to write using the common parlance of today, but my youthful arrogance made me want to write the play in verse.
Creative Appropriation
Diversifying our stages is not a challenge we can address solely by commissioning lots and lots of new plays.
In Conversation: Graham Abbey
“I used to recite Shakespeare in my spare time. I was a strange child.”
In Conversation: Maev Beaty
“You think the writer’s going to go away and come back with blue, red, and green. But this is where art happens, because they come back with something plaid and on fire.”
Show Announcement: The Company Theatre’s John
We have the exclusive on The Company Theatre’s newest production: John, on stage in early 2017.
Female Kings
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.