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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.

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Steve Fisher, BFA, CD (he/him) @gracingthestage.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@toronto-fringe.bsky.social show #34: fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/... This musical is a delight from start to finish; a 1980's queer awakening of a 2nd gen Filipino-Cdn teen, complete w/ 80's hit tributes & references, & a 5 piece band (giant harp!). Spitfire singer-actor J.Jorge is a revelation.

In this uncredited photo from a performance of FIRST KISS, actor Josette Jorge, a woman of Filipino descent with a bob of black hair, wearing a faded denim jacket, black & white checkered skirt, leg warmers and Chucks, sits on a platform on stage left. Behind her is projected a large image of a 1970's era wood panelled TV, showing a scene from the John Hughes film SIXTEEN CANDLES.

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Toronto Fringe @toronto-fringe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We are so excited to announce that $500,000 in box office revenue will be going back to the Fringe artists - and we still have five nights of Fringe to go!

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

6 more for @toronto-fringe.bsky.social Obv. Loved mixtape's CAMP! Less obvious is Grey Spaces at tpm. It's weird, goes to an even weirder place and def feels like it needs another pass of its final act, but wow - what's there is awesome. Refreshing to see a musical take massive swings.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

6 shows in for @toronto-fringe.bsky.social and I LOVED Echoes of You and CUSP. Excited to see more!

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Derrick Chua @derrick-chua.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Two Port Show Day, starting in Port Hope for Capitol Theatre’s Liars at a Funeral by Sophia Fabiilli, directed by Aaron Jan, then to Port Perry for Theatre On The Ridge’s actor-musician Romeo & Juliet adapted by Iain Moggach & Landon Doak. Love summer festival season!

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

(photo of the original 2024 Theatre Passe Muraille/Silk Bath Collective production)

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Did you like Woking Phoenix? Do you wanna see it again? We're applying for funding to do a tour in 2027 and are looking for testimonials from folks who loved the show/it impacted! If you're down, lemme know! We're stoked to send it across Canada and wanna make a great case to the jury!

Photo by Jae Yang
Set and Costume by Julia Kim
Lighting by Noah Feaver

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Derrick Chua @derrick-chua.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Worth the trip to Montreal for Opening Night of Marie-Leofeli Barlizo’s The Healing, dir by Aaron Jan, choreo by Hanna Kiel, with voice actor Josette Jorge, dancers Chelly Li & Tyler Quincy Yan. Playing as part of Centaur Theatre’s WinterWorks until Sunday only. centaurtheatre.com/shows/the-he...

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

the reveal is I'm behind all of the reddit slander against you

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Glenn Sumi @glennsumi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

LOL neither new (unnecessary) song from WICKED FOR GOOD got nominated.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Nam Nguyen's Quiz Icarus was my favourite new play of the year. Hearing the odd vulnerable story of two Torontonian trivia champs who dared to compete on Jeopardy was almost as exhilarating as watching Nguyen turn into a giant showboating dick as he beat audience members at a game he's so good at.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

@whynottheatreto.bsky.social Mahabharata part 1's beautiful poetic threat that Munish Sharma's Bhima invokes on the Kuravas made me shake. Ravi's vision and stagecraft alongside the beautiful score will stay with me for a really long time. Canstage has a good thing going with these 2 parters.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Riel Reddick-Stevens' Sex Goddess was my favourite show of @toronto-fringe.bsky.social. Like watching a queer, r-rated family channel original video game on on cocaine. I'm really biased, but it's nice to see really stupid theatre (men in suits are hiding inside of grandma) that's done this well.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

La Fille du Laitier's Macbeth Muet was an incredibly specific fever dream that made me understand macbeth in incredible detail (all without saying a word). Someone's gotta program this in Toronto or anywhere. Tours easily, easy set up and lots of beautiful gore (and eggs).

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Trailer | Bande-annonce Macbeth Muet

This video can be used for promotional or theatre season montage purposes, provided credit is given to La Fille Du Laitier Drawing inspiration from the silent…

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

On the other side of the budget was El Kabong Theatre's production of Letts' bug. Inspiring seeing a Toronto director with no money smash it by having a story-first high-craft vision that enhanced the material. Seeing Nick Eddie attack those speeches with razor precision was a chef's kiss. Wow.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

@stratfest.bsky.social's Anne of Green Gables is an all time fave for me. Really clean, smart direction, fantastic adaptation and remarkable to see a TYA show that doesn't talk down to kids. I'll be remembering this for a really long time. Best of the year and cried every time at a new spot.

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Anne of Green Gables (Official Trailer) | Stratford Festival 2025

YouTube video by Stratford Festival

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I saw 52 plays this year (not including the 3 I worked on). As I wait for my laundry to finish, here's what I loved

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

also, BUG at the King Blackbox is SENSATIONAL. Been a while since I've seen a play in Toronto that made me feel this tense and direction this specific. So shocked to see work of this caliber with a minute fraction of the budget of every theatre in Toronto. Closes Thursday (they got extended).

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

winter is here because 90 minute naps happen regularly and consistently

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aisling murphy @aislingmurph.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Yesterday, I saw Wicked: For Good and Zootopia 2. One was an unnecessary sequel about the plight of animals, brought to life onscreen in garish colours. The other was Zootopia 2. Here's my Critic's Pick review of Disney's best sequel in years. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

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Zootopia 2 corrects the ‘cop-a-ganda’ record of the first movie with punny style

Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde re-evaluate their platon-ish relationship – with policing as a means of creating positive change in the world

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

this doesn't change the way I think about narrative, but just a pondering. Because Will Parry keeps talking about how moved they were by girl in the bubble and how they're glinda, so sure, yes.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I wonder if in the blockbuster, we forgive disjointed plot for these powerful moments - in a similar way to dance, but in a container that still favors narrative though in a sloppier way.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Superman - which has a kind of meandering second act, but sticks the landing in act 3. Or the Fast and the Furious films (wicked is better than these), which at it's peak succeed for sequences of action.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I think about Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a movie that doesn't really have clear character arcs, but is really popular because of it's overall tension and well choreographed combat (a theatre artist in Hamilton tried arguing to me that Cap is a dynamic character but hmmm...). I think about

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

it all, if sometimes having incredibly effective moments versus a cohesive linear plot is also something that can lead to commercial success? this isn't something I'm interested in pursuing in my own work, I just think I'm always interested in the populist response to things

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Purely looking at the moments alone, I found the moment after For Good incredibly moving (the stuff through the door was like a nicer version of the Bear season 2's ending), the Wicked Witch of the East stuff really well put together and No Good Deed to be standouts. But I wonder - with the MCU of

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

is linear. Whereas in dance the container is based on moments. So then, why is Wicked part 2 incredibly popular? Is it Gay Avatar/MCU - where fight sequences (songs in Wicked's case) are what people are really watching it for? Or are these moments more than the sum of it's parts?

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

gave me pause. This friend who messaged me said that Wicked succeeds not because of it's linearity, but because of moments it lands very effectively - beyond Defying Gravity. She compared it to contemporary dance (a form I'm starting to work in). I don't know if I buy this myself because the form

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

(still not great, but I never have the ick when I see the musical. i'm a little let down, but never more). maybe it's because theatre is a more abstract form for me versus film (we have to imagine Oz beyond the set, versus in the movie the Emerald City is fully revealed in CGI). But still, this DM

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Because Wicked is a linear plot, framed with rising/falling action, this perspective doesn't ring true for me. Even though it's act 2 is wonky, I think I buy the sort of non follow through of No Good Deed more in the musical versus the movie.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A colleague Dm'd me about this saying that Wicked succeeds as a piece of subtextual fiction for her rather than cathartic fiction with a linear plot, especially from her perspective as a sapphic. I'm not queer, but I wonder if this holds true for other queer folks who've seen the movie.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

In No good deed (absolute banger), Elphaba vows to be more wicked. We don't see this in the action of the movie - though in the OG, she kidnaps dorothy after this, which i guess is more wicked than her mild/ineffective activism. She immediately gives up as soon as she finds out fiyero is dead.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I'm still thinking about Wicked part 2 and how frustrated it made me versus the musical (which also has a weak act 2, but feels less frustrating somehow).

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Really impressed with Oleanna two nights ago and the nuance Anthony Goncharov found in his precise direction. Closes this weekend (and don't let Mamet stop you from going. The work is really good).

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I think people were upset because there was a lot of anonymity around it and it's jury and it was hard / confusing to know whether or not any of that jury had seen your show. The lack of transparency further fed the usual feeling of sour grapes from not getting nominated.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Toronto theatre awards being back with no controversy and being taken seriously is indicative of 2025's world state

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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

"With some judicious cutting, Anne of Green Gables strikes me as a very viable Broadway show." V nice notice for Kat Sandler - and Caroline "star of the Stratford summer" Toal - from Chris Jones in the Chicago Trib. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/30/c...

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Column: The Stratford Festival of theater rediscovers a beating Canadian heart

This summer’s slate includes “Annie,” a very Canadian “Anne of Green Gables,” the thought-provoking “Forgiveness” and a very moving “Winter’s T…

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Fantastic four being mediocre was made up for by my favourite Toronto theatre Redditter reappearing the the sub. God bless her.

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Steve Fisher, BFA, CD (he/him) @gracingthestage.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Tonight's silent disco range, I've heard, will cover both Old Flame Brewing and The Young Centre, so dancers will have multiple rooms in which to get their groove on. #FringeTO

TORONTO FRINGE poster, with a red brick background. Text proclaims:

"You asked, we listened!

"Atrium Bar open until 12am midnight July 12 & 13.

"Late night serving hours for closing weekend!"

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

15 @toronto-fringe.bsky.social shows in and faves are Zeitgeist, Potato, Potato and Iris (though this is ENTIRELY based on what was pulled today. If you see Iris, I really encourage you to pick the ring box, because you get something special and magical, ESPECIALLY if it's the 11 o'clock number).

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Steve Fisher, BFA, CD (he/him) @gracingthestage.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Sold out @toronto-fringe.bsky.social show got out of Michael Young Theatre @ 11:15pm tonight. Young Centre bar was closed. Patio must close @ 11pm, fine. But why forego $1000s in drink sales inside? Crowd stayed until forced out @ 12am. Does Soulpepper even WANT the #FringeTO community there??

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I always telling @aislingmurph.bsky.social to shred every show she sees so that's my #deathwish

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

christopher hoile claiming to speak for "most children" is my favourite review of 2025

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Joshua Chong @joshuachong.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

It’s one of Shakespeare’s so-called ‘problem plays,’ but in the hands of the Stratford Festival, it’s a must-see production. My first four-star review out of this year's Stratford opening week, now up @thestar.com. Don't miss this one!

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It’s one of Shakespeare’s so-called ‘problem plays,’ but in the hands of the Stratford company it’s a must-see production

Director Antoni Cimolino’s “The Winter’s Tale” places complete trust in the material and in the skill of its cast. The result is astounding.

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afatchineseboy @afatchineseboy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

the other 9 (not in order) are probably... Butcher Salesman in China Brantwood Is God Is Sunset Blvd The Inheritance Fat Ham (broadway) Prince Hamlet School Girls (The African mean girls play)

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