An intimate evening with a serial killer
Watching Frozen at the tiny, intimate b current theatre is like viewing close-up magic in the hands of a master prestidigitator.
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Author: Eric McMillan
Yes we can: School’s hopes lift with financial lifeline
On March 7 when Yes I Can nursery school called a meeting of staff and parents it was to publicly announce the North Toronto institution was closing by month end — but in April classes are continuing, thanks to a business group offering help.
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Musical comedy updates Shakespeare featuring Donald J. Lear
The brilliant idea of the North Toronto Players is to update the tragedy of King Lear by replacing the king with a figure based on Donald J. Trump.
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No time for nuance in thrilling Yukon action novel
The Yukon was a frontier of fast riches, sudden death, rampant crime and dog-eat-dog survival — as portrayed in Mark C. Eddy’s No Time to Bury Them.
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It’s yoga! It’s pilates! It’s…yogalates!
Christina Bothwell has invented a new line of exercises to set off her new yoga and pilates studio from other exercise places. It’s called “yogalates.”
Read moreMysteries and history lessons from a comatose teen
John Moss’s latest, The Girl in a Coma, may be written for adolescents but this unusual mystery novel had me at its first lines.
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Yes I Can school makes public plea
Yes I Can director Janet MacDougall says she can’t get anyone at the provincial government to listen to the plight of her school.
Read moreNative science fiction looks back and to the future
Why has no one thought of science fiction from an aboriginal perspective before? After all, First Nations have actually had the first contact experience.
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Car crashes into Sunnybrook Plaza store
The entire front of the home decor store was smashed in by a car that had apparently failed to park safely in the Sunnybrook Plaza parking lot.
Read moreGoing over the Falls, laughing all the way
I spent the intermission for Wonder of the World trying to come up with a phrase to describe the performance of lead actress Kearsten Johansson.
Read moreFour-handed crowd pleaser
REVIEW Quartet, by Ronald Harwood directed by Jan Francies, The Papermill Theatre at Todmorden Mills, running to June 6. If you’ve seen
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Speaking to the human condition
Speaking in Tongues doesn’t speak to everyone. It’s a challenging play, not the usual comforting community theatre fare, and to judge by the tepid audience response on a recent wintry evening, not everyone is up for the challenge.
Read moreThe four steps to a hilarious evening
Of all the versions of The 39 Steps I’ve viewed and read, I have to say I most enjoyed the play now running at The Papermill Theatre.
Read moreGraphic look at a not-so-ordinary Toronto upbringing
When she started writing her memoir, Velvet Haney found the result flat and one-dimensional. Emulating another writer of family dramas, she decided to go the graphic route. Despite a lack of the seemingly requisite drawing skills, her efforts made the story come to life.
Read moreThanks and no thanks, Toronto
It’s doubtful during Thanksgiving any of us expressed heartfelt gratitude for our current election race in Toronto. But there are reasons we should be happy with the current campaign.
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