Winner for the Free Tickets to Toronto Theatre Contest for Oct 28

Unfortunately this week’s contest for Turn of the Screw tickets wasn’t able to go forward as planned.  But, Second City saved the day by offering up two tickets to their show Show Us Your Tweets instead.

Also fortunate, Nicole, the winner of this week’s contest, was very gracious about the whole thing, and is happy to be going to Second City tomorrow evening.

So, a hearty thanks go out to Second City for being such a great sport and so accommodating!  

For more information on Show Us Your Tweets, see the press release below:

Continue reading Winner for the Free Tickets to Toronto Theatre Contest for Oct 28 →

International Festival of Authors – Michael Connelly, Dani Couture, Denise Mina, William Deverell.

By Sam Mooney

This is the 30th Anniversary of the International Festival Of Authors – IFOA.

For the record theatre doesn’t have to be a play, any performance in front of an audience can be theatre.  In June I reviewed the Griffin Poetry Prize short-list readings, it was poetry as theatre, and it was great.

Tonight I went to see (or hear) Michael Connelly, Dani Couture, Denise Mina, and William Deverell read from their newest works.  Ian Rankin was the host, introducing the writers.  Each author reads for 20 minutes – except poets who read for 10, (kind of a strange rule).

Continue reading International Festival of Authors – Michael Connelly, Dani Couture, Denise Mina, William Deverell. →

International Festival of Authors – Paul Quarrington: A Life in Music, Words, and on Screen

by John Bourke

quarrington09This year marks the 30th annual International Festival of Authors (IFOA) held at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto.  Part of this 11 day long event was a tribute on Saturday to Paul Quarrington: A Life in Music, Words, and on Screen.

You might be asking yourself why a theatre website is writing about an author’s festival, but here at Mooney on Theatre we look at the idea of what constitutes ‘theatre’ in a very broad way.  So that it includes a very wide variety of ‘performances’.  Speaking of a wide variety of performances, the tribute to Paul Quarrington seemed to cover all the bases.  It had speeches, live music, the occasional quotes from scripts, and even family slideshows.

Continue reading International Festival of Authors – Paul Quarrington: A Life in Music, Words, and on Screen →

Toronto Theatre Contest- 'Turn of the Screw' – now unavailable (but Second City tickets are…) see post

contest-web-graphic-generic

Unfortunately, DVxT is no longer able to provide us with contest tickets for this run of Turn of the Screw.

If you have entered already, I apologize.  However, The Second City has kindly agreed to pinch hit for us on this one.  Let me take a second to just say, SECOND CITY ROCKS!!!

Sooo, although we can’t give away a pair of tickets to Turn of the Screw, we will be giving away a pair of tickets to Show Us Your Tweets, the current Second City revue.

Again, I, and the production team of Turn of the Screw, apologize for this sudden change.

The original post is below, but remember, it is no longer available.

Continue reading Toronto Theatre Contest- 'Turn of the Screw' – now unavailable (but Second City tickets are…) see post →