The best things to do in Toronto this weekend: May 28-30
The best things to do in Toronto this weekend: May 28-30
Including Inside Out, Juno Week, July Talk and Macy Gray livestreams and Louise Pitre s solo show By NOW Staff
Tony Award-nominated actor and singer Louise Pitre’s acclaimed autobiographical solo show streams May 27-31.
Our picks for the best things to do in Toronto for the weekend of May 28 include Louise Pitre’s acclaimed solo show, a fully-staged and filmed production of Handel’s The Resurrection and Juno Week.
On The Rocks… Stirred Not Shaken
The multi-talented, Tony Award-nominated actor and singer Louise Pitre (Les Misérables, Piaf, Mamma Mia!) presents a filmed version of her acclaimed autobiographical solo show with original songs by Pitre and W. Joseph Matheson.
It was unveiled Monday north of the chapel on the east side of the ravine.
Monument project volunteer Aly Boltman says the historically overlooked Potter’s Field, also known as the Indigent Lot, came into use in 1858 and was a burial ground for more than 130 years for babies, orphans, seniors, Indigenous people, the working poor, the incarcerated and the homeless are buried there.
Boltman says many from Owen Sound’s historic Black community, including those who escaped on the Underground Railroad and their descendants, share the resting place, “These were citizens who faced systemic racism, often resulting in deep poverty,” says Boltman.
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Francesca Faridany, left, and David Greenspan in an off-Broadway production of Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Orlando, which comes to RMTC mainstage in November.
You can say this about Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre artistic director Kelly Thornton: She is not afraid of Virginia Woolf.
You can say this about Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre artistic director Kelly Thornton: She is not afraid of Virginia Woolf.
A certain amount of fear is to be expected in the theatre world just now. So in announcing a new season, emerging from the long, dark shadow of the COVID pandemic, Thornton must answer the question: How do you balance being cautious and bold at the same time?
Winnipeg Free Press By: Randall King | Posted: 3:00 AM CDT Thursday, May. 6, 2021 Save to Read Later
Getting a play produced at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre is a tough nut to crack for a local playwright. Four playwrights getting four RMTC debuts simultaneously feels like nothing less than a game-changer.
Getting a play produced at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre is a tough nut to crack for a local playwright. Four playwrights getting four RMTC debuts simultaneously feels like nothing less than a game-changer.
But that became a reality for four local artists behind
Tiny Plays, Big Ideas, a set of four short works available online Friday via RMTC’s website. The show was originally set to be performed in person, promenade-style at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in November, before rising COVID-19 numbers in Manitoba scuttled those plans. The shows were moved to the RMTC mainstage where they could be safe
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