Some madmen do it with guns, some strangle, and others stab, but good ol’ Sweeney Todd, a barber with a mission, does it by slitting the throat, grinding up the evidence and then sticking everything in the oven: “For what’s the sound out there? . . . /Those crunching noises pervading the air? . . . /It’s man devouring man, my dear, / And who are we to deny it in here?”
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If they gave Stanley Cups for actors in the roles of NHL hockey stars, Shaun Smyth would have won his last Friday.
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One of Canada’s finest playwrights is making the switch to mystery, while one of its most illustrious directors is returning to it. That was the news Tuesday, when incoming artistic director Craig Hall announced Vertigo’s 2012-13 lineup of shows included a trio of surprises.
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A little something for everyone. That might sum up Lunchbox Theatre’s 2012-13 season, which was announced Monday afternoon by artistic director Pam Halstead.
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A case of Art imitating Life, perhaps? Or maybe the other way around.
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Conflict fuels theatre. Downstage’s Creation Ensemble didn’t have to look far for the yarn that initiated their new show, Good Fences. “We came across a story of someone who was a VP for a small oil and gas company in the late ’90s,” says Downstage artistic director Simon Mallet, “who was shot by a rancher over a dispute about a well on his land.”
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What do you say about a hip-hop musical where the most popular song of the night is called I Hate Hip Hop? Either the creators of Ash Rizin, which had its world premiere Saturday night at the Martha Cohen Theatre, were lowering the bar for expectations, or else they captured, in a single tune, something the entire audience felt.
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“Why are you here?” The introductory question put to prospective patients by Dr. Penelope Douglas, the psychiatrist in the remarkable new play that premiered on Friday at playRites, sounds simple enough.
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Time stops for no one, but happily the hands of the clock come together just long enough for two lonely strangers to share a small piece of it in the Lunchbox Theatre show Super 8.
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What do you think about when you think about hip-hop? Gangbangers? Violence? Thug lives? Worse misogynists than the Taliban?
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