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"
We are crammed into communal seating at Morning Parade Coffee Bar, enjoying a coffee and in my case a salted chocolate chip cookie, when Performance Review begins. A barista begins clearing tables and her engaging smile and light banter quickly creates a spotlight aura around her...
Drew Rowsome - Mar 14
Queerial: what on earth is making everyone queer? "You might be doing it right now
Trevor Campbell's You Made Me Queer! universe is expanding with Queerial, a podcast investigation into just "what on earth is making everyone queer?" Consumed with curiosity, I had to do some further investigation of my own, and got some clues from Campbell himself...
Drew Rowsome - Mar 9
Tom Hearn's refined Gay Garbage
Tom Hearn is a young gay comedian poised to break through this year, though he is hardly a newcomer. For the better part of the last decade, Hearn has been touring and refining his act and now he is ready to commit it to tape.
“I’m actually going back into my archive,” said Hearn. “I wanted to record a comedy album for many years so I am going back to the ...
Paul Bellini - Mar 07
Truck: largely impossible but so many people do it anyway
"In the context of theatre, an urgent message doesn’t really land if it’s not entertaining," says Graham Isador of his upcoming play Truck. "That doesn’t mean a show has to be slapstick or broad. A really compelling design. An incredible performance. A well paced script. That’s all entertainment to me. I am always trying to entertain first...
Drew Rowsome - Mar 3
Monks: these clowns are gifts from God
Monks takes the adage of clowns as sacred fools to an illogical level of demented delirium. Brother and Brother (that is the extent of their names though they do bestow Brother monikers, ranging from malicious to comical to pointedly absurd, upon us visitors. I will be forever honoured to be Brother Critic, one of the Brother...
Drew Rowsome - Feb 27
The Darkest Dark:
theatre is like revolution for your brain
The week of the first moon landing in 1969, young Chris and his family go to their cottage. Chris is an aspiring astronaut—who will grow up to become Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian Bowie-singing in space astronaut who wrote the book The Darkest Dark is based upon and co-wrote the play with Kate Fillion...
Drew Rowsome- Feb 26
Fat Ham: an exuberant Hamlet with barbecue and karaoke
Hamlet is seemingly infinitely mutable. It has been, in my limited experience, performed as a ballet, a rock concert, in sign language, and of course in traditional dress, all of which worked and each of which brought something new to a familiar and complicated text...
Drew Rowsome - Feb 22
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
Last Landscape: clowns at the end of the world and the dawning of the next
Feb
15
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
The top 100 of 2024 aka longing for the '70s
Feb
15
Bellini's 8 1/2 Paul Bellini
The Wizard of Oz: The Toto-ly Awesome Family Musical - the panto returns
Feb
15
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
Oraculum: dragging audiences into the future
Feb
15
MGT STAGE Drew Rowsome
Cocktails and Candy Canes: shaken - not stirred
Feb
15
416 Scene Drew Rowsome
The Gay AF Christmas Spectacular: "sprinkling mental glitter on your stress-filled brain
Feb
5
416 Scene Drew Rowsome
Jonathan Hogue: Stranger Sings is for nerds and fans. And newbies
Feb
5
416 Scene Drew Rowsome
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