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Beaches International Jazz Festival: Best Bets
July is all about free jazz and blues in the city's east end.The Waterfront Blues Festival (July 11–13), now in its 10th year, has recently “merged” with the wildly popular Beaches Jazz Festival (July...
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NXNE 2014: Best Bets by Genre
Our breakdown of who and what to see during the jam-packed festival.Returning for its 20th year, NXNE is celebrating the milestone by offering audiences another vast selection of events to sift through...
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The God That Comes Is Intoxicatingly Good
Hawksley Workman's one-man play/rock concert/cabaret adaptation of Euripides' The Bacchae is profound, profoundly sexual, and just plain awesome.First things first: the Tarragon Theatre mainspace is...
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Dead Metaphor: Foul Mouths, Weak Characters
George F. Walker's new play will certainly raise eyebrows, but it's unlikely to open any eyes.The dead metaphor in George F. Walker’s Dead Metaphor is the term “freelancer.” As government bureaucrat...
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Flashbacks to the Future
The Power Plant's Power Ball fundraiser takes you back to the future with analogue technology and sci-fi visions of the year 2000.Power Ball, the Power Plant gallery’s annual fundraising event, is...
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The Wedding Singer Evokes ’80s (and Sandler) Nostalgia
It seems like the 1980s are an odd, distant time here in the middle of the second decade of the 21st century. It also feels like it’s been almost as long since Adam Sandler was making good comedies,...
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Andrew Bujalski Talks Mumblecore
The independent writer-director discusses how two of his films accidentally started a movement.When young Boston director Andrew Bujalski made a perceptive, low-key comedy called Funny Ha Ha in 2002 on...
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Flesh and Other Fragments of Love: A Rocky Production
Tarragon Theatre presents (and stuggles with) a play adapted from a French novel about a drowned body and a married couple.In Tarragon Theatre’s current mainstage production, Flesh and Other Fragments...
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Getting to the Pith! of Play (and a Play)
This production shows that play-acting can take you places, and ease your grief.You can surmise a couple of things from the title of Stewart Lemoine’s play, receiving its Toronto debut 18 years after...
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TIFF Promises to Love Godard Forever
TIFF Cinematheque's retrospective of the French filmmaking iconoclast begins by spotlighting his 1960s "golden age."“Photography is truth,” Michel Subor’s young draft-dodger announces in Jean-Luc...
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Avenue Q’s a Cure for the Blues
These foul-mouthed puppets are almost guaranteed to lift your spirits.Let’s face it: being a twenty-something can kinda suck. Pumped full of confidence and aspirations, we flee the family nest…and fall...
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The Musical of Musicals, The Musical!: Theatre That’s Niche and Nerdy
The 2013 Toronto Fringe Festival hit gets a remount courtesy of Mirvish Productions—and it's a rare example of a musical parody that's fresh, funny, and clever.The musical spoof is a theatrical genre...
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Underground Theatre with Special Constables
A new action comedy about the TTC's (until recently) underpowered officers is currently underway at The Storefront Theatre, across the street from Ossington Station.The final offering in the Storefront...
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Bang-On for The Tin Drum
UnSpun Theatre presents an ambitious tale with a charming DIY feeling.Even as our free time becomes consumed with holiday parties, shopping, baking, and cuddling with the portable heaters under our...
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TIFF Pays Another Trip to Studio Ghibli’s Enchanted Kingdoms
TIFF's most popular retrospective returns with a Masterclass by Guillermo del Toro and a rare screening and introduction by programmer Jesse Wente.The rare retrospective to get a victory lap soon after...
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Canada’s Top Ten: Where Daniel Radcliffe, Edward Burtynsky, and a Giant...
TIFF's mini-festival devoted to Canadian filmmaking offers screenings and rare conversations with Denis Villeneuve, Jake Gyllenhaal, and John Greyson.Not content to keep it tucked away in the fall,...
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Michael Ignatieff Talks Political Misadventures at the Reference Library
Ex-Liberal's memoir offers a revealing snapshot of Conservative tricks.About three-quarters of the way through his new political memoir, Fire and Ashes, Michael Ignatieff writes, “Voters rarely...
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See It at Least Once
Mirvish Productions brings the tour of Tony-winning Once—the musical for people who don't like musicals—to Toronto.Once upon a time, there was a film called Once. It was made for dirt cheap in 2006 by...
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God of Carnage Doesn’t Leave a Mark
Yasmina Reza's acclaimed play about two couples caught in an angry argument over their children loses its teeth in this Off-Mirvish production.Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage is justifiably one of the...
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The Guggenheim Comes to the AGO
The AGO will be the only Canadian institution to host turn-of-the-century art from New York's Guggenheim Museum. Virginia Woolf once remarked that, “On or about December 1910, human character changed.”...
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