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Delightfully absurd Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is the cult classic you'll be hearing about in a decade
4+ hour, 47+ min ago (313+ words) Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass Mongrel/Supplied Directed by David Wain Written by David Wain and Ken Marino Starring Zoey Deutch, John Slattery and Jon Hamm Classification N/A; 93 minutes Opens in select theatres July 10 The career of…...
Jeeves & Wooster at the Shaw Festival is yet another serviceable farce
3+ week, 1+ day ago (460+ words) Jeff Irving as Bertie Wooster and Damien Atkins as Jeeves in 'Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense.'Michael Cooper/Supplied There's a certain kind of play that appears with some regularity in Ontario's summer theatres. These plays are amusing but not…...
A Midsummer Night's Dream is the Stratford Festival's best Shakespeare in ages
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (375+ words) Mike Nadajewski as Puck and Andr" Sills as Oberon in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'Ann Baggley/Supplied You'd be forgiven for wondering if A Midsummer Night's Dream, now playing in a gloriously buoyant production at the Stratford Festival, is some…...
In The Late Show's melancholy, sci-fi finale, Stephen Colbert broke the comedy-variety-talk continuum
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1011+ words) Ed Sullivan. Samantha Bee. Arsenio Hall. Johnny Carson. Chelsea Handler. Trevor Noah. Jay Leno. Joan Rivers. Robin Thede. Dick Cavett. Jack Paar. Steve Allen. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's final episode opened with an introduction cobbled together from clips…...
Pitching in: Michael Garron stand-up fundraiser is a laugh a minute
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (431+ words) Michael Currie, left, and Claire Seaborn sit at the Comedy Bar on Toronto's Danforth Ave. , where they'll be hosting the fourth Good Laughs comedy show on May 21. Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail The organizers: Michael Currie and Claire Seaborn…...
Marty, Life is Short delivers a joyful time capsule of the Canadian comic's life
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (521+ words) Everybody loves Martin Short. That's the recurring theme in Netflix's documentary about the Canadian performer, Marty, Life is Short. Over an hour and 40 minutes, director Lawrence Kasdan captures the life and career of his close friend, from his upbringing in…...
The National Arts Centre's 26-27 offerings will include a global blend of theatre, music and dance
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (616+ words) The National Arts Centre has unveiled its 2026-27 slate of programming. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press The National Arts Centre has unveiled its 2026-27 slate of programming, including a number of world premieres and co-productions across its theatre, music and dance departments....
Hot Docs film festival rebounds from the brink with jumps in revenue and attendance
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (398+ words) Hot Docs hosted its 33rd edition in May, opening with the world premiere of Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions. Gabriel Li/The Canadian Press It was fitting that this year's edition of Hot Docs opened with the film-festival equivalent of rock…...
What's the verdict on The Sheep Detectives? Not baaaad at all
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (331+ words) Chris O'Dowd as the voice of Mopple and Julia-Louis Dreyfus as the voice of Lily in The Sheep Detectives. Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios/Supplied Directed by Kyle Balda Written by Craig Mazin Starring Hugh Jackman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Bryan…...
Performer Dinah Christie won over audiences while playing charades on TV's Party Game
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (886+ words) A woman makes a shape with her fingers. Eh? Actually, "A." The segment was from one of more than 800 episodes of Party Game, which ran for 11 years on Hamilton's CHCH TV station and then lived on in reruns, and endeared Ms....