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Some things I've been doing the past few days:

-enjoying my favourite time of year! Go see Floozy: The Musical, Blastback Babyzap, Fart Factory: The Musical, Lupe: Undone, The Further Adventures of Antoine Feval, The Swearing Jar, and (for a show that's so bad it's pure genius) Hockey: The Musical.
-babbling about speed dating at the Jays game. ( ( Read more... )

Here's a little Fringe Festival preview wot I wrote. I'll definitely be checking out most of Derrick Chua's best bets (he was annoyed that I made him whittle it down to five, but I'm glad I asked him, because our lists are very similar and I am very into myself).

And while you're reading about what other people think you should see, check out ( Read more... )

One time Cameron Mackintosh phoned my house.

As if my self-indulgent nonsense isn't more than enough on this here LiveJournal, the Praxis Theatre kids asked me to write a guest post for their blog. (No, I don't know what they were thinking either. It was really sweet of them, though!)

Oh man! This blog post beautifully articulates all the problems I have with theatre criticism in this city right now.

Actually, just read his whole blog. It's nifty.

Procrastinating, as usual, I was poking around in the basement and I found a box of very old letters that people had written to my parents before I was even a twinkle in my daddy's eye. Here's a line from one of them (written in March of 1980) that made me laugh:

I have also met some nice people at the Factory Theatre Lab. Unfortunately, they ( Read more... )

In some depressing Toronto theatre news, Equity Showcase Theatre announced recently that it will be closing its doors and ceasing operations shortly (not too shortly, I hope - some good friends of mine are having a reading there at the end of April). Equity Showcase was one of the last affordable rehearsal and performance spaces in town (the first ( Read more... )

Read this first.

Now this.

Ok. It pained me to read Gass' knee-jerk defensive response to Scott's article. I have enormous respect for Ken Gass and the Factory Theatre, and Alec Scott does too, as is evidenced in the story, I think. But it's very disappointing that Gass doesn't pay Scott the same respect. "Flop Culture" is certainly not "beneath ( Read more... )

My week only got gayer after the Spice Girls concert on Monday (during which Geri Halliwell performed It's Raining Men flanked by topless backup dancers with the entire ACC singing along, so it was already pretty fabulously gay). On Wednesday night, my friend Daniel (who's love for camptacular obscure musical theatre knows no bounds) and I trekked ( Read more... )

Read this article, then go save independent theatre.

(Via the Praxis blog)