NOW IN THEIR fourth season, The Collective Face is proving to be ahead of the curve in contemporary theatre—and they’re always ready to try their hand at something new and […]
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Fool for Love is a tumultuous ride
Told with a visceral ferocity that sweeps its audience into the fray, the story is a fascinating study of what keep us coming back to the ones we love, even when it means entering back into the storm.
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‘Hedwig’: The ultimate rock ‘n’ roll fantasy
A fictional transgender German rock star might sound like an unlikely obsession for a straight (but not narrow!) married lady with a mortgage, but I’m definitely not the only Hedhead.
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Paging Dr. Furter!
Sixteen years ago, Christopher Blair directed a local production of The Rocky Horror Show. “And I swore I’d never do it again,” he laughs. Ah, but there must be something […]
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Frost/Nixon = Politics+Showbiz
First a hit play by Peter Morgan and then a movie by Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon tells the story of the pivotal 1977 TV interviews between journalist David Frost and former […]
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Review: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’
There are so many things to recommend about Bay Street Theatre’s production of John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, it’s difficult to know where to start. This is […]
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Take a drag
In the mid-1990s, Christopher Blair saw the original Off–Broadway production of the tragicomic rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring its creator, John Cameron Mitchell. “I was totally mesmerized […]