Serendipity is a big part of the Toronto Fringe for me. I decided to see Washed Up at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace because I was seeing something else there and it meant I wouldn’t have to travel between venues. It turned out to be a very good decision. Continue reading Washed Up (Stage Left Theatre) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
There’s sketch comedy and there’s sketch comedy! Regicide, playing at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse as part of the Toronto Fringe, is sketch comedy of the best kind. Continue reading Regicide (Regicide) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
Tonight’s almost full-house bodes well for Rachel Blair’s two-hander, A Man Walks into a Bar, playing at Tarragon Extra Space as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival. Blair has written a true to life, well-paced, feminist show. Don’t let the feminist label scare you. The play is quite funny. Proof that feminists do have a sense of humour. Continue reading A Man Walks into a Bar (Circle Circle) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
I thought that I was going to be too late to see Daniel MacIvor’s Who Killed Spalding Gray, one of the Seven Monologues that are part of this year’s Luminato Festival. Streetcars were not cooperating and I made it to Harbourfront Centre Theatre at 5:48 for a 5:45 show. The doors were already closed but I heard someone say “You can seat people until the house lights go down. ”
Thank goodness, otherwise I would have missed a terrific show! Continue reading Review: Who Killed Spalding Gray? – Luminato
Last night, my friend Elaine and I went to see Quartet, the final show in East Side Players’ 2014/2015 season.
Quartet is set in a retirement home for singers and musicians. Every year they celebrate Verdi’s birthday in October with a gala, and all the residents perform. Cissy (Malorie Mandolidis), Wilfred (Daryn DeWalt) and Reg (Robert Ouelette) plan to perform as a trio.
Then Jean (Jane Hunter), Reg’s ex-wife and a prima-donna supreme, shows up.
Will she sing at the gala? Will she join them to form a quartet?