I just came back from seeing Part B of One Thousand and One Nights at, and commissioned for, Luminato (big multidisciplinary art festival in the city, runs about 10 days, this year's major theme is the Arab World). I'm seeing Part A tomorrow. It's a big work, fairly large cast, pretty diverse. A lot of the stories in the Shahrazad cycle are fairly ( Read more... )

I didn't see the Magnetic Fields. I did go to Dance Ontario's DanceWeekend 2010, which led to my seeing Andrea Nann's choreography for The Flying Bulgars (Formerly The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band) production "Tumbling Into Light" at the Young Centre, and running into Lauren, an old and dear friend, and her husband (who was also there with his mother ( Read more... )

at youtube: Book of Love - Nataly Dawn

Years ago, when I went to small independent music stores more often (back when there were more of them that hadn't closed or moved entirely online), I was browsing and was excited to come across a copy of The Magnetic Fields (a Stephin Merritt project) album 69 Love Songs. I had heard Patricia O'Callaghan ( Read more... )

Okay people, this year, it is indeed fantastic again. ( Brief thoughts: )

So the Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival began on Wednesday (runs until Sunday the 12). At some level I knew this, but somehow I thought that that day would feel longer. Foolish of me, I know, because replenishing my stores of clean clothes, social energy, and get out of the house-ness after a trip very rarely happens that quickly. However, my sister ( Read more... )

Current theatre - Rebecca Northan

I'm feeling interested in seeing this play. It's showing at The Brigantine Room at Harbourfront. It's collaborative improv, one of my favourite theatre styles, by Rebecca Northan.

Reviewed here by Richard Ouzounion

Further background: She was the director of Tracey Erin Smith's Fringe hit The Burning Bush, which ( Read more... )

I'm trying for really quick (For me. Which means first order (factual regurgitation, little commentary, no analysis or synthesis) stuff. Which turns out to be just a bit under two hours. Sigh. Must get better.) as a sort of exposure. If this doesn't appeal to you skip this post. I have no idea when or if I'll get a properly done set of ( Read more... )