Preview: My Granny the Goldfish

Previews began yesterday for Factory Theatre's new release, My Granny the Goldfish. We are excited for some spring laughter and lightness at the theatre and this piece sounds like exactly what the Doctor ordered. Great pricing choices are always available at Factory (including a Sunday PWYC performance)please click the header for more info or to purchase tickets!

Show Description:

Toronto Premiere
Granny travels from Bombay to visit her beloved grandson Nico who is in hospital in Vancouver. Her “cure alls” are attitudes, platitudes and a full flask of whiskey. Despite Nico’s neurotic and hysterical protests, Granny helps him truly heal – ultimately proving that laughter is the best medicine.

My Granny the Goldfish
March 17 – April 15, 2012
Mainspace Theatre
Written by Anosh Irani
Directed by Rosemary Dunsmore
Starring Kawa Ada, Yolande Bavan, Veena Sood, Sanjay Talwar

Factory Theatre is located at 125 Bathurst Street at Adelaide

What Toronto can learn from death of Vancouver... - Toronto.com

Richard Ouzounian is sharing his opinion on the Vancouver playhouse closing and offering advice to our city in an article for The Star. Click below to check it out!

What Toronto can learn from death of Vancouver... - Toronto.com

Preview: Boeing Boeing

TORONTO - Marc Camoletti’s classic French farce Boeing-Boeing has been chosen as Rogue Theatre Company’s second production! The play opens March 28th and continues to April 8th at the new Common Good Underground Space. For tickets please click the header!

Show Description:

Boeing Boeing opens with Bernard bidding his American-stewardess-fiancée goodbye. When his old friend Robert arrives unexpectedly for a visit, the truth comes out that Bernard has not one fiancée, but in fact three, and that they are all stewardesses for different international airlines. Hilarity, chaos, and romance ensues.


Rogue Theatre Co-op
presents
BOEING BOEING
by Marc Camoletti
Translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans
Directed by Jeremy Hutton, Artistic Director of Hart House Theatre.
Featuring Diana Bentley, John Fray, Eleanor Hewlings, Kelly McCormack, Brooke Morgan and Tim Walker.

Common Good Underground Space (837 Dundas Street West)
Previews March 27th and Opens March 28th, 2012 and runs to April 8th
Performances Tuesday- Sunday at 8pm
Tickets: $25; $15 students (With Student ID-in person only)

George Takei's Happy Dance should be on Broadway

After excitedly announcing that his new musical Allegiance successfully raised the necessary funds for Its Broadway run, George celebrated with a sexy little number of his own.

You go George!!!!

Harbourfront Centre News: Hatch presents Mortified

The Harbourfront's 2012 HATCH season continues with MORTIFIED.  HATCH is the Harbourfront Centre's performing arts residency program, and this year they have collaborated with dancer/choreographer Jenn Goodwin and visual artist Camilla Singh.  The pair have created MORTIFIED, an experimental experience of movement and mayhem. The two utilize mediums unfamiliar to them, like cheerleading, drums and tap dance, to connect with the audience and to facilitate a renegade concert.  Throughout,Goodwin and Singh use their new skills to explore themes of tension and transition with an eye towards emotional states of being.

“We like the uncertainty that’s contained in this way of working,” says Singh. “It has lead to a method of being able to read the information that’s contained in something like a state of anxiety rather than being by controlled it, says Singh.

*Jenn Goodwin is from Burlington, Ont. She grew up playing with Barbie, listening to Black Sabbath, hosting make-out parties in her parents’ basement, and falling in love weekly. She moved to Montreal and received a BFA at Concordia University in Contemporary Dance with a minor in Video, and was at once thrilled and horrified by the amount of rolling around on the floor. Her dance work has been performed all over Canada, NYC, Amsterdam, Australia and Brussels. She was twice nominated for the KM Hunter Award in dance. Her short dance films have been screened at festivals across Canada, NYC and Europe. She also programs art and performances for Toronto Special Events, including Nuit Blanche.

*Camilla Singh builds things faithfully to her ideas and not always to a recurrent medium or form, and she shares Catherine Opie’s view that “…it’s transgressive just to try to live your life the way you actually want to live it.”  Singh left her role as curator of Toronto’s MOCCA to experiment with materials in her studio and probe the questions that had formed around the experience of working in an office for decade. She is currently researching and producing a series of uniforms for curators called Uniforms for Non-Uniform Workwhich will comprise a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of York University in 2013, curated by Emelie Chhangur. 

*HATCH 2012 runs from April 14 – May 5, 2012. Patrons can purchase a HATCH pass (includes tickets to all four productions) for $40, individual tickets for $15, or students/seniors/arts professionals $12. Visit the Harbourfront Centre website or call the box office at 416. 973.4000 for more information.  Following each HATCH presentation, there is a Q&A and opportunity to engage and interact with the artists, as well as a post-show reception.

*ABOUT HATCH Now in its ninth year, HATCH is a key initiative in Harbourfront Centre’s mission to develop local artists and their unique practices. HATCH mentorship provides resources and professional assistance to contemporary artists looking to explore a new element of their practice. By giving the space and time for this to happen, Harbourfront Centre hopes to develop and grow the best new work coming out of Toronto. This season’s guest curator is Toronto-based performance artist Jess Dobkin.

*Information from the Harbourfront Centre Press Release 

Preview: Legally Blonde at the Lower Ossington Theatre

Opening tonight and running till March 31st is, Legally Blonde: The Musical.   Shows areTuesdays through Saturdays at 8pm.  Sundays at 4 pm.  Tickets are $45-$60.

This production was cast locally and is produced by the Lower Ossington Theatre.  If you haven't seen this show yet, now is your chance.  This one would make a great girl's night out!

For ticket information call 416.915.6747. Or visit the website here!

SummerWorks News: S.L.I.P Applications Available Now

For the fourth year SummerWorks is offering aspiring Arts Managers the opportunity to participate in their Leadership Intensive Program (S.L.I.P.)  This two week intensive is for emerging arts professionals with a specific focus on business and management.  The S.L.I.P program is designed to coincide with the SummerWorks Festival and will take place this summer from August 9-19th.

Applications for S.L.I.P are available on the SummerWorks website here.

If you have ever dreamed of producing or managing in the performing arts this is a unique chance to explore the world of theatre arts business, in a hands-on and dynamic environment.  Past points of focus have included: Professional Etiquette, Marketing, Publicity, Grant Writing, Fundraising, Touring Logistics, Financial Planning, Artistic Directing and How to Do Everything at Once.


There are some requirements for applicants which can be found by downloading the pdf. application at the above link.  There is also a $25.00 application fee.  The deadline for applications is April 6th.