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Mosaic Storytelling Festival – Tales from Around the World

Six Sundays of stories for ages 5 to 95

The Open Door East End Arts Collective and St. David’s Anglican Church celebrate the diversity and creativity of our rich East End neighbourhood – and our world – through six afternoons of storytelling with tellers and tales from all across the globe. Occurring every two weeks from Jan. 23 to Apr. 17 at 3 pm in St. David’s parish hall at 49 Donlands Ave, right across from Donlands subway station. More »

I’m performing this Sunday with my old friend and wonderful storyteller, Dan Yashinksy; we will be joined by the Zimbabwean mbira player/storyteller, Rainos Mutamba. The 3 of us had fun dong a program at the Music Garden this past summer… so here we are again!

After Magritte & The Real Inspector Hound
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Ellen Green & Barbara Larose

Tony Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard’s work is full of linguistic complexity, and his plays often deal with philosophical issues. However, he cautions against trying to find or attach too much purpose to the one-act comedies After Magritte and The Real Inspector Hound, insisting that they “must be untouched by any suspicion of usefulness.” More »

Celebrate Mozart’s 255th Birthday
at the TSO’s Mozart Festival!
January 19 – 30
Listen to James Ehnes discuss his love of Mozart’s five violin concerti in the podcast for the Mozart@255 Festival.
Produced by Rick Phillips
Music courtesy of CBC Records

Mozart Festival Concerts:

Ehnes Plays Mozart Violin Concerti 1, 2 & 3
Wed, January 19, 2011 at 8:00pm
Roy Thomson Hall More »

Théâtre français de Toronto (TfT) is pleased to present Molière’s masterpiece The School for Wives.  Directed by Diana Leblanc, this brilliant comedy will be presented in French (with English surtitles for half of the performances) at the Berkeley Street Theatre from April 6 to 23, opening on Friday, April 8. More »

Obsidian Theatre Company in association with Nightwood Theatre is thrilled to present the Toronto premiere of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize award-winning play Ruined. Written by Lynn Nottage and starring theatre and film veterans, Yanna McIntosh and Sterling Jarvis, the story is set in a small mining town in the civil war-torn
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ruined follows a young woman’s path to Mama Nadi, a savvy businesswoman who, in the midst of a complex civil war, both protects and profits from the women whose bodies have become battlegrounds. At once heartbreaking and captivating, Ruined pays homage to the courageous and resilient women
who must piece themselves together after the ruin. More »

Cow Over Moon Children’s Theatre, the company that has produced such critically acclaimed Fringe hits as Chicken Licken and Jack Frost, returns this Holiday season with another hilarious take on a famous tale. The Gingerbread Guy will be presented in Mississauga at Clark Hall December 14-19, 2010 and in Toronto at the Pia Bouman Theatre January 8-9 and 15-16, 2011. More »