Peter Sellars’ Tristan und Isolde at the COC

Kudos have to go to the COC for brining in world renowned theatre and opera director Peter Sellars to direct Wagner’s difficult, pro to-modern masterpiece.

So, don’t complain we never get world class spectacle in Toronto…and go see this show. I think that you can even get cheap, rush tickets so don’t use the bohemian excuse 🙂

Here’s a preview from the Toronto Star

Peter Sellars

Brian Eno on Gospel, Abba and the Death of the Record

Seminal pop thinker and ambient pioneer Brian Eno lays down some interesting thoughts in a Guardian interview from 2010:

 

Eno in his studio

Tickets now on sale for SPENT at the Young Centre

Ravi Jain and Adam Paolozza, the Vladimir and Estragon of Bay Street

Our internationally acclaimed, sell-out, Dora award-winning hit SPENT opens February 18th at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

THERE ARE ONLY 6 SHOWS!!!

Tickets are now on sale and you can buy them online HERE

You can also follow SPENT on twitter: @spenttheshow #spenttheshow

Here’s a trailer video from SPENT‘s NYC run:

Selected praise for SPENT

“Funny, fast-paced and utterly mad, it shows just how well theatre can shed light on our bonkers world 4 STARS” 

-Edinburgh FEST magazine 

“sharp-as-a-tack satire…boundless energy and inventiveness…thoroughly enjoyable 4 STARS”

-Edinburgh, The LIST

“Spent in fact creates a magnificent Urban Canadian myth…I kid you not. What this company has achieved is very important”

-Capitol Critics Circle, Alvina Ruprecht