If there’s one thing Margaret Atwood should not be wanting for, it’s credibility. As the high priestess of CanLit, she has given us 14 acclaimed novels and a towering stack of poetry, short fiction and non-fiction tomes.
Thomas Dolby has one powerful memory from his childhood home on the eastern tip of an island off the coast of East Anglia: a beam of light forever flashing along his bedroom wall coming from a nearby lighthouse. When he found out the lighthouse was to be closed, it hurt. And he took action — well, creative action.
The Double is TheatreRUN’s clever adaptation of Dostoevsky’s eponymous 1846 novella about an office clerk, Golyadkin, who finds himself in competition for his own identity when he is confronted with a stranger who is his exact lookalike. It takes identity theft to a whole other level. First staged last year at Factory Theatre, this version has been further developed at Tarragon, where it runs until Nov. 24.
To call Josh Groban a singer is to limit the multi-faceted contributions he brings to his live shows. On Friday night at the Air Canada Centre, Josh Groban the singer certainly showed up, but so did Josh Groban the drummer, Josh Groban the comedian and even Josh Groban the sex object.
On his 27th birthday, it became readily apparent that Drake wasn’t going to be sharing the spotlight. Where his annual OVO Fest at the Molson Amphitheatre has come to be a Pavlovian exercise in anticipating who else might make an appearance, Thursday night at the Air Canada Centre was unmistakably Drake’s show.
It’s Thursday, and the weekend is fast approaching. Need stuff to see or do? We’ve got you covered. In this edition: a mysterious film screening, a feast to fight cancer, a gathering of the undead and more.
Rob Ford has been the mayor of Toronto for close to three years now, and in that time he’s been lambasted, lampooned and ridiculed by the best of them. So if you’re looking to have a little fun at the mayor’s expense this Halloween, you’re going to need to be original. In short, it’s time to step up your Rob Ford costume game.
Even though he has made less than 10 features over the last 17 years, the films of Danish writer and director Nicolas Winding Refn are instantly recognizable, visually compelling and effectively unnerving. While technically savvy and refined, Refn has embraced seedy environments and a gritty template to create his dark dramas, all of which have flawed, brooding and wandering male figures at their centres.
Sarah Berthiaume’s expansive and chilling drama Yukonstyle, currently having its English language premiere at Berkeley Street Theatre until Oct. 27, delves into a host of raw social issues that really hit home. And when I say “home,” I mean Canada.
With the red carpet rolled up and Toronto reflecting proudly on another successful Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the business of film continues in our city and right here in Ward 25.
The tag line for the 2013 Everything to Do With Sex Show urged visitors to “let it all hang out,” which is a wonderful, if cheeky, way to espouse the event’s fun-loving, shameless, let-your-hair-down nature.
A garbage can with fangs and bulging eyes. A morose parking meter with a handlebar moustache. A seemingly demented bike rack that looks like it could use some dental work. Yes, for anyone making their journey home after a late night recently, the city may have seemed a confounding and disturbing place.
