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Madeleine Brown
Madeleine Brown is an actor and sometimes writer. She lives in Toronto with two roommates and one (overbearing) cat.
LEARN MOREAt Next Stage 2024, two shows complicate the meaning of a night out
Gemini, by Louise Casemore, and Prude, by Lou Campbell, explore the hospitality industry and bar culture from different perspectives.
REVIEW: In Ronnie Burkett’s darkly intelligent Wonderful Joe, gentrification hits like a meteor
When Siminovitch-winning puppet virtuoso Ronnie Burkett chose the focus of his latest play, was he thinking of TO Live’s $421-million plan to redevelop its St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts?
REVIEW: 13 Plays About ADHD All At The Same Time is true to its title
While the play’s structure may occasionally leave you feeling as scattered as its protagonists, its heart, humour, and raw honesty will keep your thoughts churning well into the night.
Speaking in Draft: Byron Laviolette
“Right now, the creation-to-production process for a lot of people is from the Toronto Fringe to — hopefully — some theatre recommender grants, to a workshop production, to maybe an actual production,” says What The Festival co-founder Byron Laviolette. “But the realities of mounting a show at the Fringe don’t translate to a two-week run at the Extraspace at Tarragon. Peoples’ appetites are different. Yet we don’t train or support people to translate their shows into those different contexts."
REVIEW: Goblin:Macbeth might just leave you gobsmacked
While most of the entertainment comes from the goblins’ antics whenever the Shakespearean text is paused or subverted for comic effect, the secret sauce to this whole endeavour is that it really is an honest-to-goodness staging of that text, designed to showcase the performers’ near-virtuosic mastery of the material.
REVIEW: The Thanksgiving Play wriggles in performative wokeness
In 2024, is there a way to produce an engaging, culturally sensitive play about the first American Thanksgiving for elementary schoolers? The Thanksgiving Play, penned by Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse and now playing at Mirvish’s CAA Theatre, poses that question in its first five minutes, then throws the query out with the cranberry sauce in its madcap exploration of a devised theatre piece at an unnamed primary school.
The Scientist and the Artist: Conversations with Eugenia Kumacheva and Fiona Reid
Two women at the top of their respective fields have faced surprisingly similar obstacles over the course of their seemingly different careers.
Mad Kitchen: Marjorie Chan’s (Microwaved) Home-Steamed Fish
“Early on, I decided, ‘Marjorie, don’t get miserable with food.’ Even if you’re feeling poor, if you need to eat, and you’re out, and you haven’t had time to prep or whatever, just eat.”
Mad Kitchen: Owais Lightwala’s Haleem
“I’m more interested in the serving of things than the making. My role isn’t to have the recipes, or to be the chef. My role is to take care of the chef.”
Mad Kitchen: Catherine Hernandez’s Embutido
“I love spam,” says Catherine Hernandez.
Mad Kitchen: Jovanni Sy’s Rellenong Bangus, via Derek Chan
Thankfully, Hong Kong–born and Vancouver-based Chan was (and still is) a capable home cook.
Mad Kitchen: Remington North’s BBQ-Style Wet/Dry Ribs
“Ribs kind of hold a near and dear place to my heart, which is comic because ribs are near and dear to everyone’s hearts.”
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