News: Toronto theatre Dora Awards winners

Read the full list of winners from CBC.

Video: Sights and Sounds from Fringe For All 2011

There will be full coverage of the event from Valerie Cardinal later, but here is your first taste of the noisy, messy, happy event that is the Fringe For All.

For full coverage of the entire Fringe go to the CharPo Fringe Aggregator

News: Segal Season Launch

The Segal team (Bryna Wasserman, AD, centre) (Photo: Randy Cole)

SEGAL SEASON PAR FOR THE COURSE

if you liked past seasons, you’ll love this 

joel fishbane

Not much will change at Segal Centre during the 2011 – 12 season. The only theatre not dark on Monday nights will continue to present seasoned classics well into the spring of 2012, featuring the usual assortment of established writers, directors and stars. Centaur has opted to challenge its subscribers with world premieres and musicals about haunted hillbillies, but Segal has chosen to offer their audience much more familiar fare. Put succinctly, if you liked past seasons, you’ll love this. 

The strengths of Segal Centre has always been its commitment to all artistic disciplines and it’s new season features a slew of dance, music and cinematic offerings which I’d encourage everyone to explore. Theatrically, their studio space offers the most intriguing possibilities: Tableau d’Hote will present Timothy Findley’s astounding Elizabeth Rex while Scapegoat Carnivale (Segal’s new resident company) will be presenting a new play by Joseph Shragge, The Heretics of Bohemia. I can’t tell you anything about it, other that it involves puppets, fairy tales and that it’s producers are the same people who gave us Medea - which, as I continue to tell Artistic Director Alison Darcy every time I see her, was the best show I saw in 2010.