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Category Archives: Dance, theatre & musicals
Brontë: The World Without comes to Guild Festival Theatre in Scarborough
Gothic Girl Summer began this week at Guild Festival Theatre with Brontë: The World Without, a recent play by Jordi Mand. I laughed loudly for much of the play showing us episodes, a series of scenes from a three-year period … Continue reading
Gothic Girl Summer: Tyler Seguin talks about Brontë & Northanger Abbey at Guild Festival Theatre
I heard Guild Festival Theatre’s announcement of their 15th summer in Guild Park. Inspired by Gothic literature and the great women writers of the 19th century, GFT’s 2026 programming features a theatrical imagining of the lives of the beloved Brontë … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, theatre & musicals, Interviews
Tagged Andrew Prashad, books, Brontë, Brontë: The World Without, Gothic Girl Summer, Guild Festival Theatre, Helen Juvonen, Hilary Scott, Jane Austen, Jordi Mand, Lara Lucia, Laura Del Papa, literature, Maddie Bautista, Northanger Abbey, romance, Scarborough, Sten Eirik, Theatre in Transit, Tyler Seguin
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A Toronto Summer Music opening night celebration with Les Arts Florissants
Driving downtown to the concert Thursday night July 9th in Koerner Hall I drove through downpours, hearing of roads closed by local flooding. By the time I got there the weather had cleared up, an auspicious beginning: to the 2026 … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, theatre & musicals, Music and musicology, Opera, Reviews
Tagged (Olivier Bergeron, Camille Chopin, classical-music, history, Jonathan Crow, Josipa Bilic, Kevin Arboleda-Oquendo, La Descente d'Orphée aux enfers, Les Arts Florissant, Marc Antoine Charpentier, music, opera, Richard Pittsinger, Sarah Fleiss, Toronto Summer Music, William Christie, William Fedkenheuer
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Discussing The Wounds of Love and Other Gifts, Bruce Dow’s new musical: an interview
In an interview I aim for rapport, to get the subject to trust me, to be open in their answers: language I learned decades ago when I trained to be a psychotherapist, a profession that in the end was beyond … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, theatre & musicals, Interviews, Psychology and perception
Tagged Braeden Soltys, Bruce Dow, Erinn Bekkers, Ethan Rotenberg, Jeff Dimitriou, Kendra Dyck, Knox College, Mel Brooks, Oscar Wilde, Priya Khatri, psychology, psychospiritual, psychotherapy, Ronan Hayes, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Wounds of Love and Other Gifts, Toronto Fringe Festival
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Unprepared for Parḗlios
My review of Parḗlios? The headline says it. I was in the lobby at Theatre Passe Muraille early Sunday in anticipation of the closing performance of Parḗlios when I ran into Jennifer Nichols, who directed & choreographed the show, the … Continue reading
Of Whales and Willpower Part One: Jamaican Music from Apocryphonia
The title of the concert Friday June 12th at Christ Church Deer Park was “Of Whales and Willpower: The Jamaican Jonah, Part 1”, suggesting that there’s a sequel in the works. This first step was hearing excerpts from Samuel Felsted’s … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, theatre & musicals, Music and musicology, Reviews
Tagged Alexander Cappellazzo, Apocryphonia, Christ Church Deer Park, Craig Alastair Bloomfield, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Jonah, Joseph Bologne, Joshua Duncan Lee, L'Amant anonyme, Noel Da Costa, oratorio, organ, Paul Williamson, pipe organ, Rashaan Rori Allwood, Samuel Felsted, Ted Runcie
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Symbolist cicadas probing underneath
If you think the headline is cryptic, you should see the play. I saw the World Premiere of cicadas, a new work that I understand as an elaboration upon a radio play, a Tarragon Theatre and NAC English Theatre Co-Production … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, theatre & musicals, Reviews
Tagged Chris Thornborrow, David Yee, Ellora Patnaik, Family Compact, fu-Gen Theatre, John Strachan, Monica Dottor, NAC English Theatre, Nina Lee Aquino, Real Estate, Ryan Hollyman, Symbolist, Tarragon Theatre, Trinity Bellwoods, Trinity College
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Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark from Shakespeare, Lepage, Côté and Gzowski
The run is so brief as to make this review seem pointless. Friday night I saw the opening of the Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark. My blog may be done by Saturday, but anyone seeing a weekend showing already … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, theatre & musicals, Reviews
Tagged 887, ballet, dance, Elgin Theatre, Guillaume Côté, Hamlet, hybrid, John Gzowski, movement vocabulary, music, Robert Lepage, Shakespeare, Show One Productions, The Far Side of the Moon, The Tragedy of Hamlet, theatre, William Shakespeare
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She Holds up the Stars from Red Sky & Toronto Symphony
In a week of adaptations, the trip to Roy Thomson Hall to see & hear the world premiere of She Holds Up the Stars from the Toronto Symphony & Red Sky Performance on Sunday April 19th was a fabulous case … Continue reading
Erin Shields’ Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary at Crow’s Theatre
I saw the matinee of Erin Shields’ Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary on Saturday afternoon April 18th. The title is playful I suppose, but makes a lot of sense when you look at the New Testament, particularly the female characters. I … Continue reading
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