Eye-catching Toronto live theatre for the week of April 4, 2010

by Leanne Milech

Shows that Caught Our Eye This Week

Every week, Mooney on Theatre editors troll local theatre listings for our writers, searching for shows that we think our writers might want to review.  We base our picks on whatever sounds interesting, exciting and original.  After compiling a list of shows that fit the bill, we circulate our selections to our writers, and they take it from there.  Now, we’ve decided to start giving our readers the benefit of our research!  Every Sunday from here on out, we’ll give you the inside scoop on cool shows you might want to check out based on our very own writers’ list.  Enjoy!

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Review: A Boy Called Newfoundland- Theatre Smash

by Lucy Allen

Newfoundland a whimsical and enjoyable addition to Toronto theatre


Remember being fifteen?  For everyone, it’s a tough age, especially when you’re just learning how to deal with your own family dysfunction.  Theatre Smash’s A Boy Called Newfoundland, which opened this week at the Tarragon Theatre, is a quirky if somewhat awkward look at the life of one such dysfunctional family.  Continue reading Review: A Boy Called Newfoundland- Theatre Smash

Review: Breakfast – Independent Aunties

By Crystal Wood

Remount of 2008 show doesn’t quite live up to Toronto theatre hype

Breakfast, playing at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre until April 4th, confirms something that I suspected all along.

Self-help tapes are evil.

This is not actually a show about breakfast. It’s not really a show about food at all, although I pretty much guarantee you’ll never look at yogurt the same way again. It is a show about releasing our inhibitions, but it only partially succeeds.

This remount of a show by Independent Aunties follows a woman who turns to a self-help audiotape to improve her dull life (and if having chocolate pudding for breakfast is really a sign of a dull life, I am in trouble.) Continue reading Review: Breakfast – Independent Aunties

Five for Twenty (Or Less)

by Leanne Milech

Cheap Toronto Theatre for the Week of March 29, 2010

Feast your eyes on five eclectic Toronto theatre options – all of which cost $20 or less.  This week, we suggest opera (for free!), improv at Toronto’s Bad Dog Theatre, radiant physical theatre, a coming-of-age tale and theatre about art (think thought-provoking rather than hoity-toity). Here are the dirty deets on our cheap theatre picks for the week of March 29, 2010:

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