The Doras honour excellence in the performing arts in Toronto. This year’s awards ceremony will once again be hosted by Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus, founding Co-Artistic Directors of the three-time Canadian Comedy Award-winning The National Theatre of the World. For the first time, the awards will be taking place outside, at Harbourfront Centre, on June 23rd.
Kudos to all of the nominees! Here’s the full list of nominees (with links to our reviews of each production):
I doubt it’s news to anybody that there’s a ton of condos being built all over town. That’s why I was so happy to hear that Crow’s Theatre was bucking the condo trend by creating a new space in Leslieville, slated to open in 2016. As a hello to the neighbourhood, they’re running a theatre festival called the East End Performance Crawl.
It’s a series of shows taking place in found spaces (that is, not inside theatres) while they’re waiting for their new home to open. They’ve got a lot of cool shows participating in the festival. Some of them are listed below, but there’s a lot more on their website. Some shows are free, some are only $15 – they even have a 5 shows for $50 offer! So come out to support the East End Performance Crawl, and see some Cheap Theatre!
Dark humour brings an edge to traditional yoga in Through the Gaze of a Navel part of the East End Performance Crawl
There are people who love doing yoga. There are people who hate doing yoga. Then, there are people (like me) who like doing it occasionally, but can’t quite buy into the spirituality and ritual nature of the whole practice. Sure, I’ll give the stretch my best shot, but my inner cynic never quite shuts up. Find my inner light? Yeah, I’ll get right on that.
Through The Gaze of a Navel is a “performance in the form of a yoga class”, taking place as part of the East End Performance Crawl. And instead of asking you to hide your cynical feelings about the process, the instructor/performer, Emilia Symington Fedy, goes ahead and expresses them for you. Throughout the hour-long show/class, Symington Fedy parodies the rituals that we follow to find inner peace, both inside and outside the yoga studio.
You know what’s awesome? When you’re out shopping, and you find a whole bunch of nice stuff that you really want to buy. You know what’s even better? When all that stuff turns out to be super cheap! And that’s exactly how I feel about this week’s Cheap Theatre list! I’d be happy to shell out a fair bit to see any of these shows and festivals (a Shakespeare/Star Wars mashup? A show about Rob Ford? I’m totally in). But the best part is, they’re all extremely affordable. Take a gander, see if anything strikes your fancy, and go see some cheap Toronto theatre!
we are not afraid of the dark Explores Life, Death, Purpose and Meaning at The Theatre Centre
we are not afraid of the dark, playing at The Theatre Centre in Toronto, is billed as an “intensely intimate one-woman/two-ghost show”. The show is based on a series of conversations between the late actor Tracy Wright and Belgian theatre director Tine Van Aerschot, while Wright was battling cancer.
