This week’s Cheap Theatre is inspired by the power of expectation… and the power of life to throw a wrench in the best-laid plans. Things might go just as you expected, but knowing that that can change at any time is what makes life exciting! And you can get excited about paying only $25 or less to see any of the shows on this list! So what are you waiting for? Go enjoy some Cheap Theatre!
Continue reading Cheap Theatre for the Week of November 11th, 2014
It’s getting darker outside. You might be dealing with it perfectly well, but chances are that you – or someone you know – is feeling a bit down, a bit drained from the fact that winter is fast-approaching. Now’s the best time for you to brighten up your week with some theatre! Here’s what’s playing in Toronto this week. If it’s red and got two asterisks before it, our Managing Editor, Wayne, highly recommends it.
Continue reading Play Listings for the Week of November 10th, 2014
It’s funny how infrequently we think about the actual meaning of words that we use. For example, “uncanny” — like most people, I’ve spent the majority of my life taking it to mean “strange”, “weird”, or “unsettling” – and it does mean that. But last year I learned that its more proper definition is “perceiving something as both familiar and alien at the same time, making it uncomfortably strange”.
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, currently being performed by Echo Productions, takes the familiar characters of Charles M. Schulz’s iconic Peanuts comic strip (Charlie Brown, Sally, Linus, Lucy, etc. – although they’re never called by those names), and imagines how they’d grapple with the struggles of the modern high school experience. The effect is, as I suggest above, uncanny. It’s also surprisingly moving, and makes for a rewarding theatrical experience.
Continue reading Review: Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (Echo Productions)
Maybe it’s the fact that the clocks have changed, and it’s already dark by 5:30pm. Maybe it’s a bit of leftover Halloween sentiment. Maybe it’s just a coincidence! But several of the shows playing in Toronto this week focus on darker subjects – ghosts, greed, the end of the world… One bright point is the fact that they’re all $25 or less per ticket – and this week’s Cheap Theatre actually includes a Mirvish show and two Soulpepper shows! So brave the newly dark evening and go see some Cheap Theatre!
Continue reading Cheap Theatre for the Week of November 4th, 2014
Happy November! It’s cold – it actually snowed already, which… no thanks. But in happier news, there’s a lot of fun theatre playing in the city this week! Here are our Play Listings for the coming few days. If it’s highlighted in red with two asterisks, that means that Megan, our Founding Editor, highly recommends it. Happy theatre-ing!
Continue reading Play Listings for the Week of November 3rd, 2014