Donna Bailey

Luminato Festival Toronto returns from June 9th to June 19th across the GTA in unexpected public areas designed to reignite the residents of Toronto. With four world premiere performances, a robust daily line-up of culture and two free weekends of concerts, art, conversation and dance, Toronto's favourite festival returns. 

Luminato Festival Toronto – the city’s international festival of arts and ideas – will return this summer from June 9th to June 19th with a bold line-up of exceptional art which will Reignite Toronto. Over the course of 11 days, Luminato will deliver a significant celebration of creativity that spans Toronto and the GTA in both familiar and unexpected places.

Author and storyteller Tom Pryor's next show CITY STORIES: STOOPS TO NUTS is scheduled for tonight, June 11th at 6:00 p.m. at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Manhattan.

Author and storyteller Tom Pryor's next show CITY STORIES: STOOPS TO NUTS is scheduled for Tuesday, June 11th at 6:00 p.m. at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Manhattan.

... The other impression I got from "Singin'" was the incredible depth of talent required of all the actors. The legendary Gene Kelly was the original choreographer, setting a high bar for anyone to follow (or vault over), to belabour the metaphor. This performance is meant to be extremely high intensity; highly athletic. To pull it off, actors must have a huge vocal range, a powerful voice, be highly gifted dancers in a number of genre's including tap, flamenco, ballet, have the agility of an acrobat, be incredibly funny and posses the ability to act ! They were all so physically beautiful, (or perfectly caste, befitting their role). One imagines a vast pool of players and an extreme vetting process to have achieved so many creme de la creme in one show.