Buster Canfield's Apocalyptic Miracle Show: And tentacles!
There can be little doubt that our current times feel perched on the edge of an apocalypse. Perhaps just not the dire horrific apocalypse that Buster Canfield warns us of. Owing more than a little to the writings of HP Lovecraft, Canfield prophesies terror beyond imagining in a torrent of doom-laden, vividly preached words. Punctuated with "And tentacles!" The Old Ones are awakening, ready to bring....
Drew Rowsome - Jun 5
Iconique: Singing Out's Noah Witenoff on the power of collective queer voices
Every Pride, when a gay anthem, no matter how familiar or overplayed, booms over the loudspeakers, there is a rush of joy, goosebumps, and the irresistible need to sing along. Amplify that anthem by 130 enthusiastic voices in dynamic four part harmony, set it in the acoustically and visually splendid environs of Koerner Hall, and Singing Out's Iconique is set to sing its way into one's quivering...
Drew Rowsome - June 4
Tallulah at The Bankhead Review at Tallulah's
Despite the fact that she made relatively few movies, Tallulah Bankhead is a legend among gay men. Sky Gilbert loved her so much he named his cabaret after her. And now, to put a cherry on top, Raymond Helkio has created The Bankhead Review at - where else? ...
Paul Bellini - June 4
Memoirs: Letters From a Pandemic, The Loves of My Life, My Life as a Pornographer, and Confessions of a Rodeo Clown
I do a great deal of reading for sheer pleasure. Due to a confluence of events both personal, professional and within the publishing industry, memoirs have found their way into my hands. So much of our lives is defined, both as lived and in memory, by our sexuality; who we loved, who we lusted after, who we had sex with, who broke out hearts but never our spirit. The coming out narrative is still the dominant...
Drew Rowsome - June 4
The Butcher's Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs Lovett
Mrs Lovett and her notorious, and reputedly delicious, meat pies are legendary from penny dreadfuls and, ever since Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, to musical theatre aficionados. Now, in the grand tradition of Disney villains (Cruella), Mrs Lovett gets a rehabilitating back story...
Drew Rowsome- Jun 1
Red Like Fruit: articulating what "no-one" wants to hear
wo actors walk on to a stage dominated by a simple straight back chair spotlit on a riser. Lauren, Michelle Monteith (The Father), tells us that "I have asked Luke to speak for me." Luke, David Patrick Flemming (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, What a Young Wife Out to Know), has notes on a stand but he only refers to them when he gets nervous. ...
Drew Rowsome - Jun 1
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Annie: Bellini does Stratford
If you love theatre, you have to love Stratford. They do such great productions. I just got back from a weekend there, where I saw a matinee of Annie and an evening show of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Two musicals, both very different, but both of them definitely worth seeing. ...
Paul Bellini- Jun 1
Trans Joy Jamboree: Mandy Goodhandy and Bren D'Souza bring the laughs, activism and sexiness
Goodhandy is familiar to, and beloved by, everyone in the queer community, so we couldn't wait to let her apply her wit to a few questions about comedy, queerness and sartorial choices. And to balance it out we managed to get answers to the same questions from Bren D'Souza because they are "brilliant, genius, revolutionary and sexy," ...
Drew Rowsome - Apr 10
Crashing Rent Free
ent Free is a new comedy film from director Fernando Andres. It’s about two losers who are trying to live rent free in Austin, Texas by constantly crashing on friends’ couches. They are charmless, but also pitiful, so they very often get to stay somewhere out of mercy. ...
Paul Bellini - May 30
Comfort Food: not comfort food but rewarding
There is a cooking adage, that is often presented as a "rule," that only five ingredients should be used in creating a dish. Bette, the host of a cooking show titled Comfort Food, immediately breaks that rule while making waffles. Comfort Food, the play, breaks the same rule with abandon. Comfort Food, the cooking show, began as a YouTube project for single mom Bette and her son KitKat. It seems to have...
Drew Rowsome - May 21
VIZA: the Queen of Mean
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
Wicked Nix: the foulest of the faeriend the queen
Jun
05
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MacBeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot returns in all its weird and wonderful glory
Jun
05
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A Strange Loop: musical exuberance amidst
self-doubt
May
20
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Job: a dynamic evolving feed/feud of information and conspiracy theories
May
20
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Poz: gay resilience
May
20
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Feast: to live is to want more
May
20
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asque of the Red Death: "if the world was ending, you'd come over, right?"
May
20
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The Virgo Queen joins Shea Co
May
20
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Pochsy IV Unplugged
May
28
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Red: but then art happened
May
20
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Stella Kulagowski and the Masque of Red Death
May
10
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A Public Display of Affection: sleazy, nasty, fabulous queer joy
May
10
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Truck: rolling down the infinite highway of progress, or, when its lean people get desperate
May
10
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LGBTQ+ NEWS
May
8
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LGBTQ+ Rights and Politics: A Struggle for Equality
May
8
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Nathaniel Bacon applies his brazen sexual attitude to Cabaret
May
8
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There is violence and there is righteous violence and there is death or, the born-again crow
May
3
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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
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Queerial: what on earth is making everyone queer?
"You might be doing it right now
Apr
10
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