Years ago when I worked at fab magazine, there was a writer who always managed to put a hilarious spin on their assignments. When they arrived one day to drop off copy before racing off to their first drag performance, they managed to turn the office chaotically upside down with their nerves, excitement, demands for attention, and a constant stream of one-liners...
Drew Rowsome - May 14
Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day: it is never clear who the villains are
It is the early 1940s when we meet lovers Lovro (Dado Cosic) and Nenad (Djordje Galic). We meet them in bed and then share a few minutes of their idyllic university life. Lovro is tall and lanky with a wry smile, while Nenad is shorter with a hairy chest and sporty pornstache. On their way to class with friends, they are detoured by members of the occupying Nazi party, who attempt to separate all the...
Drew Rowsome - May 14
The Toronto Theatre Critics Awards 2025
t was a great year at the theatre from May 15, 2024 to April 30, 2025, and I experienced plays that moved, thrilled and entertained me. And I got to write about them in the hopes of encouraging others to share those experiences. It is one of the great honours of my life to have been invited to join the Toronto Theatre Critics Award committee, who knew that my stint at fab magazine would lead to such prestige?...
Drew Rowsome - May 13
Genrefuck: Never Walk Alone and Reina and some trigger warnings
Genrefuck is a double bill of two movement driven pieces by two "audacious artists." Julie Phan has created Never Walk Alone wherein a dancer works the pole on Christmas Eve, and Augusto Bitter presents Reina. envisioning the life of the anonymous woman depicted on bags of Harina P.A.N. flour. Being intrigued, I asked the artists a few questions to find out what to expect...
Drew Rowsome - May 10
MacBeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot returns in all its weird and wonderful glory
Everything I wrote still holds true and there is no point in repeating myself. There is always trepidation when revisiting a piece of art that was incredibly impactful on first viewing. Always a fear that the reality will not live up to the memory. But reality has no domain with Eldritch Theatre, this remount of MacBeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot transcends the raves rattling around in my hard drive...
Drew Rowsome - May 9
Wicked Nix: the foulest of the faeries and the queen
A magical forest is tended to by Mr Green and guarded by Nix. Mr Green also tends to Nix, who is nearing the end of his year of service. It is almost midsummer and a portal will open so the fairies can gather in a meadow to dance and celebrate. Nix is hoping that the Faery Queen will relieve him of his duties and allow him return with her and his many faery friends to the realm of the faeries...
Drew Rowsome - May 8
A Strange Loop: musical exuberance amidst
self-doubt
Usher is an usher at the Broadway production of The Lion King. He is also writing a musical about a "fat, black, queer" man writing a musical about a "fat, black, queer" man writing a musical. With A Strange Loop he presents us with current drafts, his inspirations, his frustrations, and a witty and tuneful critique of what it means to be an artist who happens to be fat, black and queer....
Drew Rowsome - May 3
Job: a dynamic evolving feed/feud of information and conspiracy theories
Job begins with stark blasts of light reveal rapid-fire vignettes of a young woman brandishing a pistol at an older man. It is disorienting and confusing as the action and intentions change with each rendition. Then Job settles into a cat and mouse rhythm as Charlotte Dennis and Diego Matamoros launch into a battle of words...
Drew Rowsome - Apr 30
Poz: gay resilience
Mark Keller (5 Guys Chillin') quickly scans the popular culture assessment of HIV in 2014 when he received his diagnosis. Listing those well-meaning films, television and theatrical productions grappling with the plague, he is forced to come to one conclusion, "If you are gay, you will die of sex." But this is 2024 and the narrative has changed, people with HIV are living and thriving thanks to medication...
Drew Rowsome- Apr 27
Feast: to live is to want more
This Feast is a lot to digest. Playwright Guillermo Verdecchia has crafted an exquisitely detailed satire on consumerism, food porn, colonization, environmental collapse, forced migration, globalization and much more. All of it wrapped in our very human need to acquire experiences, objects and status. A character deadpans...
Drew Rowsome - Apr 12
Masque of the Red Death: "if the world was ending, you'd come over, right?"
Darius Prospero, who made his billions as a nepo-baby using AI, has invited us to sit out an environmental collapse - raging fires and flooding - in his luxurious walled compound. We are informed that there is a bountiful supply of food and champagne and that we will be totally safe, possibly the only human survivors...
Drew Rowsome -Apr 8
The Virgo Queen joins Shea Coulée and Lemon in a trifecta of winners
"Get into the glitz and glamour, the powerful energy," urges The Virgo Queen. "It's a trifecta of winners." Virgo is part of an all-star line-up coming to Mississauga's Living Arts Centre. Virgo was a Toronto-based drag queen paying her dues at "The Drink, Woody's, O'Grady's, every residency you can imagine...
Drew Rowsome - Apr 10
Pochsy IV Unplugged: Don't worry. It's nothing weird. It's medicinal
Pochsy introduces herself and then begins to tell us about her morning routine, much of which seems to take place at night. She thanks us for coming, "I wasn't sure I'd make it. I've been super busy." She may not be a reliable narrator but she is captivating to watch. Karen Hines has created a character who is so deadpan that one has to lean in...
Drew Rowsome - Apr 9
Red: but then art happened
Esteemed painter Mark Rothko (Lindsay Merrithew) is struggling to train his new assistant to appreciate just how deep and meaningful Rothko's paintings are. Not only does the unnamed assistant, played by Brendan Kinnon, get a lecture on art appreciation, he also gets advice, abuse, a treatise on colour, physical labour, and sermons on the...
Drew Rowsome - Apr 5
Stella Kulagowski and the Masque of Red Death
May
10
416 SCENE Drew Rowsome
A Public Display of Affection: sleazy, nasty, fabulous queer joy
May
10
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
Truck: rolling down the infinite highway of progress, or, when its lean people get desperate
May
10
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
LGBTQ+ NEWS
May
8
HOT TOPIC MGT
LGBTQ+ Rights and Politics: A Struggle for Equality
May
8
HOT TOPIC MGT
Nathaniel Bacon applies his brazen sexual attitude to Cabaret
May
8
416 Scene Drew Rowsome
There is violence and there is righteous violence and there is death or, the born-again crow
May
3
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
A Public Display of Affection from Jonathan Wilson
Apr
28
Bellini's 8 1/2 Paul Bellini
Performance Review: "the kind of funny that ruins funerals"
Apr
11
MGT Stage Drew Rowsome
Queerial: what on earth is making everyone queer?
"You might be doing it right now
Apr
10
416 Scene Drew Rowsome
Tom Hearn's refined Gay Garbage
Apr
05
Bellini's 8 1/2 Paul Bellini
Mark Keller on the positive effects of Poz
Apr
05
416 Scene Drew Rowsome
Truck: largely impossible but so many people do it anyway
Apr
05
416 Scene Drew Rowsome
Monks: these clowns are gifts from God
Apr
05
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
The Darkest Dark:
theatre is like revolution for your brain
Mar
30
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
Fat Ham: an exuberant Hamlet with barbecue and karaoke
Mar
30
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
The Anvil: cruising IRL
Mar
28
Bellini's 8 1/2 Paul Bellini
People, Places and Things: made up but it's truthful
Mar
28
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
The Wolf in the Voice: let's us see them sweat
Mar
25
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
Witness for the Persecution:
Sky Gilbert on trial
Mar
20
416 SCENE Drew Rowsome
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