Tag Archive for the term: comedy

With a new year comes new shows, new ideas and new festivals! Just a week away is the first Monthly Mess of 2010, and it’s taking part in a new Dance Festival in Montreal!
CoMotion Farm’s Dance Week, starts on Monday night at MainLine Theatre (3997 St. Laurent, just below Duluth). The festival offers everything dance! [...]

After years of helping to create award-winning sketch comedy shows with Uncalled For and keeping the secrets of how to do so greedily to himself like so many hoarded magical amulets, Uncalled For’s perpetually tall Anders Yates is getting ready to spread the wisdom of the ages that can facilitate the writing of goofy scenes. [...]

Once And For All We’re Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen, Alexander Devriendt
A dozen teenagers left patronizing narratives behind and instead communicated their experience through a series of impressionistic tableaux. Using almost exclusively physical theatre, they were able to offer a refreshingly amoral take on adolescence that was bursting with [...]

Little Saturday comedy for you friends, in celebration of Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary and of all the good puppets have brought to our lives in general – yay for anthropomorphized fabric bringing savvy joy.

Hope to make you smile… the world is crazy, but the people in it are relentlessy surprising and fall-in-loveable, here’s more proof in the form of a hip hop medley:

This video is circulating like wildfire on the interwebs today, maybe because we all need a little pick me up; and a spontaneous high five from a dashing stranger would not be a bad start. Good thing those kinds of guys are out there.

I’m also glad these kinds of guys are out there.

And [...]

Check out Pat Donnelly’s Gazette Blog about “30 DATES” the upcoming hit comedy coming to Montreal for 5 shows ONLY at Centaur Theatre. (Sept. 23 – 26).
http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/stageandpage/archive/2009/09/10/online-dating-speed-dating-fenulla-jiwani-s-30-dates-at-centaur-theatre.aspx
Look for Pat’s in-depth feature Gazette article on the playwright and star of the show, Fenulla Jiwani, on Tuesday, Sept. 22nd, 2009.
For tickets call: (514) 288 – 3161
ADVANCE TICKETS [...]

Vanity Fair writer Mike Sacks ended up with one of the last interviews ever with Larry Gelbart, the comedy writing great, creator of the television adaptation of M*A*S*H and the movie Tootsie, Gelbart died September 11, 2009. The interview is amazing, Gelbart mentions that the show was never supposed to have a laugh track and [...]

I listened to the “Free to Be You and Me” record over and over and over again when I was little – so much so that carefully lifting and flipping the record and putting the needle down is one of my earliest memories. Alan Alda’s voice on the story Atalanta’s big race was my first [...]

Yes, we’re preparing yet another fabulous Indyish Mess which will gather ye art geek gods and goddesses tomorrow in all the lofty, well-lit, pugnacious glory of the Blue Cat Boxing Centre (Centre Chat Bleu) for to partake of the darling indie folk pop rock, and the story telling, and the dances with the shadows and [...]