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Photo: The Unseen Hand
THE UNSEEN HAND
May 1 – May 7, 2013
Wednesday May 1: The Cameron House (Queen West)
Thursday May 2: The Curzon (Leslieville)
Friday May 3: The Magic Oven (Danforth)
Saturday May 4: Lazy Daisy’s (The Beach)
Sunday May 5: May Café (Little Portugal)
Monday May 6: Annette Studio (Junction)
Tuesday May 7: The Storefront Theatre (Bloorcourt Village)
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The Unseen Hand is dark, comedic trip following three forgotten legends of the Wild West, who have been brought back to life to help a desperate alien fight for the freedom of his enslaved people against the powerful “Unseen Hand.” All set against the sleepy backdrop of Azusa, USA, The Unseen Hand is a look at the bizarre meetings that occur on the side of a busy highway in middle of the night.
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Cue to Cue celebrates all the great performing arts in Toronto from the small independent companies to large international productions. |
Photo: Mike Ross by Cylla Von Tiedemann
TRUE WEST
March 25 – May 4
Young Centre for the Performing Arts
$32 – $68
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Austin, a screenwriter, and Lee, a petty crinimal, are recently reconciled brothers with little in common. Confined together in a suburban home, Austin prepares for a lucrative meeting with a Hollywood producer, a connection which prompts keen interest from Lee. Shepard’s searing black comedy takes apart the resentment of sibling estrangement to reveal that perceived differences are perhaps not all they seem. Coarse language
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There is a really great musical show starting tonight and running until the 24th of March at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts called ROCK OF AGES which returns to Toronto after a previous successful nine month run at the Royal Alexandra Theatre.
The musical takes place in the 80′s and is about a small-town-girl who meets a a city-boy with big dreams at a famous LA rock club on Sunset Blvd. The story is set to 28 classic rock songs from the decade of terrible hair and features artists such as JOURNEY, WHITESNAKE, BON JOVI, SPEEDWAGON, FOREIGNER, POISON, and STYX.
Photo: Rock of Ages
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Photo: Rock by Kat Sandler
ROCK by Kat Sandler
March 8 – 23rd 2013
The StoreFront Theatre (955 Bloor St. W)
General Tickets: $20 / March 10: Pay-What-You-Can Evening / March 20: Half Price
Rock is a pitch black comedy about love, friendship, and how far you would go to protect someone you care about who has recently started bludgeoning people to death with rocks.
Ben (Andy Trithardt), a moderately successful late-twenties actor, has started hearing voices telling him to kill bad people with rocks. Ben’s somewhat distant girlfriend Tasha (Jen Balen) is all for him realizing his potential, and his freeloading best friend Mikey, (Tim Walker) bought them capes. Now if only the spirit of the first guy he killed would stop hanging around the house drinking all the beer, Ben would be set.
Rock continues writer and director Kat Sandler’s tradition of exploring the grey areas of modern morality and examining the little voices we hear in our heads.
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Cue to Cue celebrates all the great theatre in Toronto from the small independent companies to large international productions. |
In the 1980′s, a small group of Torontonians was determined to establish affordable living and greater communal support for their retired forerunners in the performing arts. More than two decades later, the Performing Arts Lodges of Toronto (PAL) is housing more than 200 residents in their building located on The Esplanade. It has also paved way for a national organization, PAL Canada, and the creation of more chapters in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Stratford and Halifax.
Photo: PAL Toronto & Esplanade Apartments
I had the opportunity to speak with Christopher Marston, a former executive director of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association and a former president of PAL Canada.
“One of the big issues in the performing arts in Canada is that performers are considered, fundamentally, to be freelance workers. The special circumstances of the way in which artists work are not really taken into account,” Marston said. “So, as a group, they have a harder time when they get older because the support systems are not really there.”
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Cue to Cue celebrates all the great theatre in Toronto from the small independent companies to large international productions. |
Photo: House of Mirth
Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie presents From the House of Mirth
February 14th – 24th 2013
The Citadel – 304 Parliament Street
$50
Opening on Valentine’s Day, exactly one year to the day Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie (CLC) re-opened The Citadel, its Regent Park home, CLC proudly presents a remount of its acclaimed From the House of Mirth, directed and choreographed by James Kudelka, from February 14-24, 2013
Inspired by Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, the novel tells of Lily Bart’s tragic descent from the glittering social circle of 1890s New York to desperate poverty, her dreams of a good marriage shattered by convention and by her own conflicted desires.
Photo: Villains & Vixens
Angelwalk Theatre proudly presents VILLAINS AND VIXENS
February 20th – 8PM
Toronto Centre for the Arts – Studio Theatre - 5040 Yonge Street
$22 – $30
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