Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 3d

This is all adorable!

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 3d

This is what an afternoon nap is for!

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 6d

This is Crow’s third Malloy after Ghost Quartet and Great Comet, and all have been hits with Toronto audiences. What’s next? Three Houses seems like the likeliest choice but I’d love to see them do Moby Dick. 🐋

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 6d

The production of Octet at Crow’s Theatre (another co-pro with the Musical Stage Company) is *stunning*. (That video floor? Next level!) The cast is flawless and working hard to make 95 minutes of a cappella singing and dancing about internet addiction look easy.

Stage set with a large wooden floor in the foreground and the wall of a church basement in the background

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 7d

Those eyes! 😻

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 12d

Very jealous! Kyle was so good in The Inheritance!

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 12d

Finally, this afternoon we caught Shifting Ground Collective’s Ride the Cyclone, a delightfully weird musical about choir kids in the afterlife after a roller coaster accident. Great fun and this young company continues to impress with the quality of work they produce.

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 12d

Toronto is lucky to have a queer theatre and Buddies in Bad Times was *packed* on Saturday night for Makram Ayache’s The Green Line. A very poetic piece about intertwining queer love stories in Beirut.

A poster featuring a handsome, shirtless man wearing a vest holding a string of pearls.

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 12d

King Gilgamesh and the Man of the Wild is a unique play that tells the story of two men from different countries becoming friends in modern day Toronto and telling the story of Gilgamesh at the same time. All with fantastic live Arabic jazz music. Loved it.

Program cover featuring two men singing and a woman playing a violin.

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 12d

With so much theatre opening and closing in the next couple of weeks we needed a three-show weekend to squeeze them all in. You’d think we were on vacation!

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 14d

Just home from the gym, the morning is off to a good start!

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 16d

I like Julie Zhou’s “The Making of a Manager” for first timers.

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 16d

Walked by Alan Ritchson filming Reacher on the walk home from work tonight. Just another day in Toronto! Can confirm Alan is a Very Big Man.

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 17d

Sending the biggest thanks and hugs to @meakoopa.bsky.social and the talented team behind Marvel’s Avengers Academy. They put so much love and heart into this series and brought something wonderful, unique, and necessary to the world every week for sixty issues. Time to begin my re-read! ✨

Cover of issue sixty of Marvel’s Avengers Academy featuring a woman in a pink and gold superhero costume, with flowing black hair

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 20d

The Welkin is GREAT!!!! We’re looking forward to seeing King Gilgamesh next week after loving it the last time it was here.

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 20d

Kudos to director Weyni Mengesha for creating such a visually gorgeous and fiercely intelligent production. What a way to wrap up her AD tenure at Soulpepper.

3

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 20d

Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin (Soulpepper/Crows/The Howland Company) blows open the doors to the Toronto theatre season. Featuring a huge cast of mostly women, this show is everything: smart, funny, challenging, and oh god the last 20 minutes are intense! Mayko Nguyen & Bahia Watson are next level.

The cover of a program featuring 14 women, with the woman in front holding a noose.

2 1 6

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 20d

Gorgeous suit!

1 1

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 24d

Oh noooooo! 😭

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 24d

🤩 We’re getting more????

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 26d

Noooooo! 🫠

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 26d

Ooh, that dark purple one is gorgeous and so unusual! What a beauty!

Andrew Gillespie @adgillespie.bsky.social · 26d

This has to be the universe telling you to go home, right? 🙃