gracingthestage.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Edward VIII's relationship with Wallis Simpson was widely reported in the US, but UK press didn't until one Anglican priest made an ambiguously oblique allusion to it, that was taken as the establishment's signal, the floodgates opened and he abdicated a week later. I think about that sometimes.

submitted 10 hours ago • 20 comments

Here is my video of the 4 REM members playing tonight @remhq.bsky.social youtu.be/qZOgPcnTbZ8?...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

🌊🧪 Canadian scientists are traveling to #Antarctica and the Southern Ocean under the Canadian flag 🇨🇦 for the first time. Our @tiaanderlini.bsky.social is onboard studying trace element chemistry. @uvicscience.bsky.social @geotraces.bsky.social youtu.be/zK4Rw5zcPEY?...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

submitted 20 hours ago • 234 comments

“What links these issues is that they are fundamental to the bargain urban people make … paying more money to get less real estate, and in return having access to an interesting and vibrant city … Toronto is failing to keep its end of the bargain” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Wrote a curtain-raiser about TO Sketchfest for @torontotoday.ca, and reached out to @glennsumi.bsky.social for some commentary. Just like old times!

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

thank you @intermissionmag.bsky.social for letting me review my most anticipated show of Canadian Stage’s 24-25 season!!

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Saturday & Sunday are (once again) sold out - but there are still tix for grabs for tonight's 7:30pm & 9:30pm shows! #TheaTO #ComedyTO

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

The Theatre Centre, capitalizing on @aislingmurph.bsky.social & other's rave reviews of MONKS' opening night, have in the past hour added tickets to this week's too-short run (& I'll bet they won't last another hour, so hop on that ass... ): theatrecentre.org/tickets/?eid... #TheaTO #ComedyTO

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

So _now_ can the Ontario Liberals, NDP, and Greens figure out a goddamn way to work together to pass election reform in 4 years time?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The @nytimes.com Canada coverage shakes my confidence in all NYT coverage.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

The most Critic’s Pick to ever Critic’s Pick. Good luck getting a ticket, but if any artistic director is doing their job well, Monks will be back for a longer run soon. Signed: Brother Critic. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

🌟🌟🌟🌟 for HYPOTHETICAL BABY, written & performed by @rachelcairns.bsky.social, back on stage now only until next Saturday! Secure your tickets today for what Stage Door calls "the kind of play that makes a person glad to live in Canada... Illuminating & so funny". www.stage-door.com/3/Reviews/En...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Season announcement season is well underway, and there are some super interesting trends in Canadian theatre programming for this year. Let's look at Arts Club Theatre's season. (Maybe I'll do more of these as more seasons become public...) 🧵🧵🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Reminder that after you VOTE, it’s the final week for TO shows Table for Two, Monks, Fly Me to the Moon and The Calling. Or can catch Kim’s Convenience, People, Places & Things, Fat Ham, Blind Dates, Hypothetical Baby, The Darkest Dark, Stranger Sings, Performance Review, Come From Away, Lion King.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Popped in to do it on my way home from work. #ONelection ##ONpoli #CDNpoli

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you're curious as to which Etobicoke businesses are choosing to sue the City over bike lanes, here is the list. Sad to say, I've been going to a few of these since I was a teenager.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Thread re: #TheaTO shows opening (& closing) this week & next. Hope more of the companies involved start bring more active here on BlueSky! So much easier to share their show info, & link to coverage of their work & artists, compared to Meta platforms, or (ugh) X...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I've been @ 5 editions of Queer Broadway Karaoke @ Buddies in Bad Times, & tonight's 2nd set was the best yet; so many 1st timers stepped up to the mic courageously, & stepped away after triumphantly. Next March 26th is DJ @rosefox.bsky.social & QBK's 1 yr anniversary (I'll bring Meatloaf). #TheaTO

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Believe the hype about Monks. #brothermedia

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The Washington Post: "Democracy dies in darkness." Jeff Bezos:

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING | Michelle Trachtenberg dead: Actress was 39 www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Last night, met my niblings @ an afternoon all ages karaoke party @ Palmerston Library, then zipped to Tarragon Theatre for THE WOLF IN THE VOICE-a very apropos pairing. Enjoyable cabaret, w/ interesting trivia re: singing, but a slight addition to Nightswimming's ouevre. (Closes tonight.) #TheaTO

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This. Also: if someone is trying to convince you that your vote doesn't count, they probably have an agenda. Vote. Just vote. It does matter.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

When you believe in personal liberties so much you order everyone to write about them.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Last chance for TO shows CLOSING THIS WEEK: The Wolf in the Voice at Tarragon Theatre closes Weds Feb 26, then closing this Sun Mar 2 are Table for Two at Soulpepper, Fly Me to the Moon at Red Sandcastle and Makeshift Company The Calling at Annex Theatre opening tonight for a limited run till Sun.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The city of #Toronto should be coming down HARD, w/ financial penalties & worse, on contractors who haven't fulfilled their duties, such as those who drove along #BikeTO lanes w/o plowing, & marked them plowed on the #PlowTO map. (Most of the Sherbourne cycle track is still unusable, i.e.) #TOPoli

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

" #Toronto needs to take comedies more seriously." Preach, Brother, preach! #TheaTO #ComedyTO

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Ride with us on the new date for 2025 Coldest Day of the Year Ride: Saturday, March 1st. Learn more and RSVP now: www.cycleto.ca/coldest_day_...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I've done this training a couple times — it's like CPR! You need a refresher to keep your skills sharp. And Julie is a great teacher!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“a little scrape on the knee or whatever" Moscrop just described what that was perfectly: "Ontario premier Doug Ford tends to, let’s say, riff. In those moments, he shows his true self: ignorant, small-minded, and hopeless, but ignorant above all." Every so often, you see the real Doug.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

By rights Doug Ford going ahead with Starlink should cost him the election. It’s like handing the guy who keeps threatening to rob your house the keys to your van.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

I Missed THE SHAPE OF HOME: SONGS IN SEARCH OF AL PURDY during its @crowstheatre.bsky.social run, so I'm glad to get the chance to hear its creator-performers sing the songs live tonight @ The Monarch Tavern. #TheaTO #TOMusicCity #CdnCult

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

submitted 5 days ago • 1680 comments

YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown you can SEE HIM he is playing in town you should go and have a good time

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

Years before he made it big with “Nathan For You,” Nathan Fielder made a movie, “Love and Cameras in America.” His directorial debut has never been released – so I set out to find it. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/ar...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Howland’s @courtneyvl.bsky.social spoke with @torontoguardian.bsky.social about life as an artist and directing @rachelcairns.bsky.social HYPOTHETICAL BABY returning to the stage this weekend with @nightwoodtheat.bsky.social and Howland. torontoguardian.com/2025/02/toro...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Headed to this in a few min. Probably will try to cajole Ava into a post-set drink @ Comedy Bar (& dare I hope, Owl's Club karaoke?) after... #ComedyTO

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Wait, KARAOKE? OK, this was already on my list of #TheaTO shows to see, but it just leapfrogged a spot or two...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments