Darren Sigesmund is cooking with Jazz!
When Darren Sigesmund compares cooking to jazz improv, take note. As a professional trombonist and a professional chef, he’s uniquely qualified to […]
Music & Opera
Theatre
Patricia Cano delivers in The (Post) Mistress! ~ Arpita Ghosal
Patricia Cano plays the hilarious and heartwarming Marie-Louise Painchaud, the Métis post mistress who minds the village’s sole post office . . . along with everyone else’s business in Tomson Highway’s The (Post) Mistress.
Music & Opera
COC’s Free Concert Series offers a world of music ~ Arpita Ghosal
The noon hour is about to improve: the COC’s always-diverse Free Concert Series returns on September 27, opening with a concert by mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo and fellow artists of the COC Ensemble Studio
Theatre
Ellora Patnaik shines doubly bright in Shakespeare in the Ruff’s Romeo and Juliet ~ Arpita Ghosal
Who better to take on Nurse than the multitalented Ellora Patnaik? Her portrayal of this “dream role” is unlike any before it in the radical retelling of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare in the Ruff.
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“Love, enjoy and appreciate that you are a creative being!” SesayArts in Conversation with Artist Josée Duranleau
Artist Josée Duranleau: “I am often surprised at where the work takes me. My original ideas tend to morph into something quite unexpected, and that strikes me as magical!”
Music & Opera
COC’s Summer Opera Camps Continue to Spread “Opera Fever” ~ Sayani S-G
Composer Chris Thornborrow on COC’s Summer Opera Camps: “When you’re creating opera from scratch, you’re allowing young people to express themselves through art, design, narrative, movement, and music.”
Theatre
The Quotable Sayak: “Grab your blue-suede shoes and dance over to All Shook Up”
“All in all, All Shook Up is thoroughly enjoyable, and I would recommend it to any family, music lovers or not. All of the performers are strong.”
Music & Opera
Vanessa Sears can’t help falling in love in All Shook Up ~ Arpita Ghosal
“Our show is light and fun, but at its core, it’s about the power of love and how it can light up your life and fill the world with beauty and hope.” ~ Vanessa Sears on All Shook Up
Music & Opera
Oh, the places we’ll go with Soulpepper’s Concert Theatre! ~ Arpita Ghosal
Soulpepper’s music director Mike Ross says of concert theatre, “You’re going to hear music that you know, as if for the first time, performed by Toronto artists, inside a vital new context.”
Music & Opera
Singing in Russian, coffee, and the perils of bad advice: SesayArts in Conversation with Soprano Shannon Mercer
In anticipation of her appearance with 5 at the First, Canadian soprano Shannon Mercer chatted with SesayArts about singing in Russian, coffee, and the perils of bad advice.
Screen & Words
The Quotable Sayak on FCBD: “your May just got a whole lot better!”
Wondering what to do when May comes around? How about popping over to your local comic book shop for Free
Theatre
The Quotable Sayak: “YPT’s The Wizard of Oz is over–and beyond–the rainbow!”
12-year old Sayak says, “the Young People’s Theatre production of The Wizard of Oz now playing displays a fresh take on the classic, beloved musical and its actors’ many, many talents.”