Mooney on Theatre

The New Ideas Festival 2010 – Week One – Alumnae Theatre

Sam Mooney — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:54:20 +0000

by Sam Mooney This is the 22nd New Ideas Festival hosted by Alumnae Theatre Company so you know that they’re doing something right. The Alumnae website describes it better than I can “The New Ideas Festival is a juried, three-week annual festival of new writing, works-in-progress and experimental theatre, with a different program of plays [...]

Toronto March Break 2010- Theatre Arts Activities for Grandparents and Kids

Sam Mooney — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:42:10 +0000

By Sam Mooney As I started looking at what’s on in theatre for Toronto kids this March break I found myself wishing that I was a kid – or that my grandson was older so I could do some of these things with him. You don’t actually have to be a grandparent to enjoy the various [...]

V-Day and Two Plays!

Leanne — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:57:56 +0000

By Leanne Milech I remember being shocked when Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues first swept through North America: a whole play devoted to women and their vaginas? Not only was the subject matter unique, but the stories were based on Ensler’s interviews with real women, interviews that had people divulging deep, dark secrets about their sexual [...]

The winner of a pair of tickets to ‘My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding’ is…

abena — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:58:10 +0000

Congrats to Rose Holloway! Rose and guest are the lucky winners to MMLJWW, tomorrow night at the Panasonic Theatre. To all those who didn’t win, don’t be sad because MMLJWW has been extended until April 4. Shows run every Tuesday through Thursday at 8:00pm, Saturday shows at 5:00pm and 7:00pm, and Sundays at 7:00pm. Tickets are $25-$60 [...]

My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding Vows

Leanne — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:41:49 +0000

By Leanne Milech We thought this show couldn’t get any sweeter, but it has! This weekend, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (MMLJWW) turns into YOUR very own (insert long, descriptive acronym) wedding! Following the March 12, 13 and 14 shows of MMLJWW, couples from the audience will be invited to stand up in the Panasonic Theatre [...]

The Culture Congress 2010

Leanne — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:45:36 +0000

By Leanne Milech Get ready for The Culture Congress 2010, which will rage through various Toronto locales from March 24 through March 28. Harbourfront Centre, the Theatre Centre’s FREE FALL ’10, Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage 2009-10 and Calgary’s Theatre Junction Grand are joining forces to put on a variety of roundtables, lectures and discussions on the Canadian arts community, [...]

Five for Twenty (or Less)

Leanne — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:22 +0000

by Leanne Milech Our mission at Mooney on Theatre is to make theatre more accessible, which is just one of the reasons we are over-the-moon excited about this weekly post: we get giddy helping people find their way to local Toronto theatre, especially when it’s high quality entertainment on a budget! This week, we’ve uncovered a [...]

Go see Attack of the One Man Shows on Tuesday! (one night only! Act now! Other infomercial type phrases!)

Megan Mooney — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:31:00 +0000

by Megan Mooney On Tuesday March 9, 2010, at the Supermarket in Kensington Market you have the opportunity to see two one-man shows for $10. Basically you’re getting two-for-one. And the one is very reasonably priced… The two shows are: Nile Seguin’s Fear of a Brown Planet and Gavin Stephens’ Spectacular! Spectacular! and the event is being put [...]

Toronto theatre contest -win a pair of tickets to My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding

abena — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:32:59 +0000

Do you like hilarious musicals? If you didn’t have the chance to see My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding at last year’s fringe festival, then your in for a treat! This Thursday be the lucky 13th person to contact us at contests@mooneyontheatre.com quoting the subject line My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, for your chance to [...]

New Ideas Festival

Leanne — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:27:51 +0000

By Leanne Milech The New Ideas Festival is almost here! Alumnae Theatre Company is presenting its 22nd annual festival of new writing, works-in-progress and experimental theatre over three exciting weeks spanning from March 10 until March 27. The works being performed were all selected for the festival by a blind jury, meaning the jury wasn’t aware [...]