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Top Spots: Emily Hampshire
Originally from Montreal, actress Emily Hampshire lived in Toronto’s Little Italy neighbourhood before striking out for L.A. Her latest gig is as the heroine of The Trotsky, Jacob Tierney’s film about...
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Good Neighbours
Still Courtesy of TIFF. Good Neighbours Directed by Jacob Tierney (Canada, Special Presentations) Laying its scene in Montreal’s largely anglo Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood during the winter of...
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Jay Baruchel Gets Ghastly in Good Neighbours
Jay Baruchel ramps it up in Good Neighbours. Canadian filmmakers know that the hardest part of their jobs is getting Canadian audiences to watch Canadian movies. It’s especially true in English...
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Bruce McCulloch Trades the Hall for the Stage
The Kids in the Hall alum discusses his life within and away from the troupe ahead of two upcoming solo performances in Toronto.When last we spoke to Bruce McCulloch, he and the rest of legendary...
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Heaven Above Heaven Below Comes Out on Top
A man and a woman meet 20 years after their relationship came to a tumultuous end, and resume their fight with the help of a mini bar.The world is a shockingly small place; just being in it will...
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The Coen Brothers Are Coming to the Lightbox (Or, Their Films Are)
TIFF launches a new retrospective of the work of the film industry's most accomplished siblings.The films of Joel and Ethan Coen can be deliriously funny, wickedly macabre, and downright bizarre, often...
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Heaving Bosoms and Sharp Class Critique in After Miss Julie
A 21st-century adaptation of August Strindberg's classic drama Miss Julie amps up the frustration and simmering class tension.Toronto theatre audiences have seen a number of adaptations of Strindberg’s...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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