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
Mark Keller on the positive effects of Poz
"I've always been a very open person," says Mark Keller of his play Poz, which "details my life as an HIV-positive individual today—addressing stigma, relationships, medical advancements, and personal resilience—all framed around my real-life journey of biking from Toronto to Montreal to raise funds for the People with AIDS Foundation." Poz was an award-winning, sold out hit at the 2024 Toronto Fringe Festival...
Drew Rowsome- Apr 2
Stella Kulagowski and the Masque of Red Death: "plotting murder while dancing, singing and occasionally taking our clothes off"
"Our show is quick and dirty and rarely subtle," says Stella Kulagowski of Masque of the Red Death. Our character of Joy, played by Rosalind Saunders, really leans into the camp in her act as she tap dances, plays the trombone and the glockenspiel, the wooden spoons and sings, appropriately screaming 'Is this enough?' from her little box." ...
Drew Rowsome - Apr 1
A Public Display of Affection: sleazy, nasty, fabulous queer joy
Jonathan Wilson is this evening's guest at the 2025 Queer Elders Speaker Series. In dry gay speak he notes, "Elder. I'm flattered and insulted at the same time." Considering himself merely an amateur queer archeologist or historian, he is bemused to find that he is now an "artefact."He contacta a few other elders who he thinks are more ...
Drew Rowsome - Mar 29
Truck: rolling down the infinite highway of progress, or, when its lean people get desperate
Nathan, followed closely by Alan, burst into the spotlight and rally the audience in a chant of "No trucking without truckers." It's a clever gambit as we are instantly on board with the strikers. During the rest of Truck, our alliances will not shift, but they will be tested, prodded and finally shattered. Playwright and director Graham Isador has ...
Drew Rowsome - MAr 28
LGBTQ+ NEWS
Hungary Bans LGBTQ+ Pride Events: Hungary's parliament has enacted a law banning LGBTQ+ Pride events and restricting assembly rights. Thousands of protesters in Budapest blocked a major thoroughfare in opposition to this legislation, which also permits the use of facial recognition technology to identify participants. Critics, including the ...
Mar 25
LGBTQ+ Rights and Politics: A Struggle for Equality
The struggle for LGBTQ+ rights has long been intertwined with politics, as laws and public policies directly shape the daily lives and freedoms of LGBTQ+ people. From criminalization to marriage equality, political action has been both a source of oppression and liberation...
Mar 24
Nathaniel Bacon applies his brazen sexual attitude to Cabaret
"I've literally never done a show that felt as timely and relevant as this one does right now," says Nathaniel Bacon of his role as the Emcee in Cabaret. "And the fact that such an old play is once again so very topical says very scary things about the times we are living in. We are aiming to entertain but most importantly to leave audiences thinking...
Drew Rowsome - Mar 23
There is violence and there is righteous violence and there is death or, the born-again crow: leather, feathers and safety pins
there is violence and there is righteous violence and there is death or, the born-again crow (henceforth referred to as The Born-Again Crow) is long, enticing and slightly unwieldy title. So is the production. Beth (Tara Sky) returns to her mother's home after an arrest for an attack of violence against the Real Canadian Superstore where she worked...
Drew Rowsome - Mar 23
A Public Display of Affection from Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson is a man of my generation. We both came to Toronto in the late '70s. We have both seen a lot. Now, he’s taking what he saw and spinning it into a brand-new solo show called A Public Display of Affection.
“Pre-pandemic I was asked to speak at an event as a ‘queer elder’ and I didn’t know how to unpack that,” he told me over Zoom...
Paul Bellini- Mar 20
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
Truck: largely impossible but so many people do it anyway
Apr
05
MGT STAGE 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
Kim's Convenience: attention must be paid
Mar
20
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
Stranger Sings: let my people (and puppets. And Demogorgon) sing
Mar
20
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
The Vinyl Diaries: boyfriends are music
Mar
20
Bellini's 81/2 Paul Bellini
The Strange and Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom: puberty is supernatural
Mar
14
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
Cock: a viciously comic battle of the genders
Mar
07
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
Mar
07
Moving Pictures Drew Rowsome
For Both Resting and Breeding: cookies and couture
Feb
29
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
Stratford Winter Pride
Feb
15
416 Scene Drew Rowsome
Vacant verbiage
Feb
15
Bellini's 8 1/2 Drew Rowsome
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