Now in Our Twelfth Year

February 2010 - This Month

Celebrating Black History Month

Dance: Diaspora Dimensions explores the richness of Africa and the Diaspora from Mali to Haiti

Patterns: A seamstress in turn of the century New York dreams of a better life and finding love in Intimate Apparel

Outrageous: Kitsch, camp, glamour, sleaze, drag, full frontal nudity, fake moustaches, mullets, glitter, violence and splosh, the 31st Rhubarb Festival is good to go.

Close Relations: A middle class couple grapple with the recession and family fallout in George F. Walker's And So It Goes

Toronto Factory Theatre celebrates its 40th Anniversary in style
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Banner photo credits: L to R: Cirque du Soleil's The Green Bird from Nouba; Yanna McIntosh and Geraint Wyn Davies in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the 2009 Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Photo by David Hou; Deborah Hay in Born Yesterday at the 2009 Shaw Festival, Photo by Shin Sugino; Amy Wallis in Anne of Green Gables The Musical™ at the Elgin Theatre, May, 2009, and at the 2009 Charlottetown Festival. Photo by Louise Vessey.

Openings: Week of Feb. 8, 2010. Children of Eden at the Scarborough Village Theatre; An Evening with Patty LuPone and Mandy Patinkin at the Royal Alexandra Theatre; Intimate Apparel at the Bluma Appel Theatre; Shostakovich: A Portrait at the Enwave Theatre; Therac 25 at Bread and Circus Theatre; Yichud at Theatre Passe Muraille; The 31st Rhubarb Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre;Out of Town: Woyzeck at the National Arts Centre French Theatre. See Previews.

Photo left: by Brigitte LaCombe. An Evening with Patty LuPone and Mandy Patinkin at the Royal Alexandra Theatre.

Recent Theatre Reviews: The Little House on the Prairie at the Canon Theatre; Such Creatures at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace; La Comunión at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre; CabaRomantico at the Papermill Playhouse; Macbeth Reflected at the Lower Ossington Theatre; Rent at the Canon Theatre; Courageous at the Tarragon Theatre; Virtuosity at the Bluma Appel Theatre; Out of Town: The Last Five Years at the Grand Theatre, London, ON. See Reviews