Play starring R.H. Thomson opens at Tarragon By Annemarie Brissenden “Who are you, again?” asks Edouard, the family patriarch at the centre of You Will Remember Me, now playing at the Tarragon Theatre until April 10. It’s a much repeated, at times humorous, refrain that serves not only as a reminder of the dementia that […]

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Two of the University of Toronto’s distinguished art galleries have merged to create one of the largest university-based art museums in the country. The Art Museum at the University of Toronto — previously the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and the University of Toronto Art Centre — is also the second-largest museum-standard visual art museum and […]

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Book launches, dance festivals, and fashion mark month By Dilara Kurtaran It’s been a little over two decades since Canada officially recognized February as Black History Month, and this year, the wide range of events aimed at honouring the legacy of Black Canadians includes book launches, lectures, and fashion installations. Local independent A Different Booklist […]

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Toronto City Opera’s performances are approachable and fun By Annemarie Brissenden What could possibly go wrong when a poor peasant who only has eyes for a beautiful landowner buys a magical love potion from an itinerant doctor? Discover the hilarity that ensues in Gaetano Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, performed by the Toronto City Opera (TCO) this […]

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Harris Huron alum Re: Red House, Winter by Lawren Harris (December 2015 Cover) Thanks Gleaner for that lovely Lawren Harris cover. In addition to the local ties and contributions mentioned in the article, Harris was also an alumnus of local Huron Street Public School. Happy New Year, —Simon Wright Sales Representative Wright Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage […]

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Bloor St. Culture Corridor participates in strategy consultations By Heather Kelly The diverse arts organizations that make up the Bloor St. Culture Corridor are playing an active role in setting the province’s cultural priorities by participating in a series of town halls and online forums, and by responding to requests for comment. The consultation process […]

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A local literary line-up for the holidays By Annemarie Brissenden Annex publisher Coach House Books, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year and operates out of bpNichol Lane, boasts a bevy of award-winning reads: Fifteen Dogs gain human consciousness and language in André Alexis’s Giller Prize- and Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize-winning novel; editors John […]

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Frankenstein Live emphasizes language over spectacle By Annemarie Brissenden How does one reckon with the horror of one’s own creation? It’s a question posed by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, and one asked of the audience in Frankenstein Live premiering this month at the Walmer Centre Theatre. “[Frankenstein] was so obsessed with creating […]

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Heritage Toronto plaque honours poets MacEwen and Acorn By Annemarie Brissenden He was large, gruff, almost a bully, and an ardent Marxist who used poetry to foment revolution. Equally passionate, she was a fey little thing who decided in her teenage years that she would live for poetry. And for a brief, explosive time, Milton […]

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Seven notorious twentieth-century women come alive in solo show By Annemarie Brissenden It turned out that Zelda was most comfortable in the bathtub. For Elizabeth Smart, it was doing dishes in the kitchen. Or so Dora-award winning actress Nicky Guadagni discovered as she rattled around a big, old farmhouse, coming to grips with the seven […]

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Porch View Dances bridges art and audience By Axile Gerona Local porches will come alive with dance once again this summer, when Porch View Dances returns for the fourth year to Seaton Village. “From Aug. 19 to 23, choreographies by real-life professional dance couples Karen Kaeja and Allen Kaeja, Michael Caldwell and Louis Laberge-Côté, and […]

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