Don't miss the musical ode to extraterrestrials
, based on one of his plays, won the Academy Award for best picture and landed him the screenwriting Oscar.is also a coming-of-age story, but from a different socioeconomic perspective. It’s a drama set at an elite Black prep school, where a gay student faces the pressures of conformity while aspiring to lead the renowned gospel choir. The Canadian Stage production is buoyed by a cappella performances of traditional gospel songs.
, which is based on that web series, is a practical guide that uses humour and compassion to tackle how race structures our everyday lives.NASA’s Voyager I launched in 1977 with two phonograph records to essentially deliver a mixtape to outer space. Soulpepper’spays tribute to this lonely messenger with 90 minutes of musical performances both from and inspired by the records.Hannah Moscovitch’s last play was titled, could be called “Sexual Outrages of the One Per Cent.
Toronto’s 12th annual Silent Film Festival tiptoes into town this month with nary a peep. Documentaries, comedies and costume epics from the 1920s will take over the Revue for three days, with many screenings accompanied by the dulcet tones of live musicians., a 1923 epic starring Pola Negri; and the sensibly titled, a Cecil B. DeMille–directed comedy, are among the classics lined up. Earplugs are optional but likely unnecessary.