When I sat down in the Rio Theatre to watch LiveStage Production of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, I was flooded with memories of my childhood: sitting alone in my bedroom having my adolescent mind blown by the dreamscapes of Pink Floyd.
Messing with Mike's Mind is Pink Floyd's The Wall at the Rio; photo credit: VooDoo Bill Kustom Photography
Mamet’s Speed The Plow* is a rapid-fire dissection of the corrupt world of Hollywood movie making. In the play, Head of Production Bobby Gould struggles to determine whether he should green light a vacuous blockbuster or an adaptation of an apocalyptic book of revelatory poetry.
Footlight Theatre Company’s production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber is a silly roller coaster of infectious songs and good family fun.
Your PLANK Panel making sense of the blood and guts that is the Ground Zero (aka The Vogue version) of Evil Dead are: Michael J Unger, Sean Tyson and Franklin T Schneider.
Lynley Hall and Tyler Rive are part of Evil Dead: The Musical, the one at the Vogue not the other one
The curtains open to the backs of students sitting and staring at a large ticking clock on the far wall, waiting for 3pm to strike so they can start their summer vacation.
Suddenly Andrew wishes he taken the HSM2 assignment; Shannon Hanbury, Lexy Campbell, Grace Newson, Julie Trepanier (face covered); photo credit: Rob Sondergaard
With Halloween just behind us, one can compliment Ghostlight Projects for their savvy timing. With sexy costumes and hedonism still lingering in the memories of many of Toronto’s young adults (and die-hard middle agers) the company’s double bill of cult glam classics should help extend the spirit of the holiday.
Seth Drabinsky, left, features in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Jamie Robinson is Debbie in Debbie Does Dallas the Musical