2Bmag online

Trajal Harrell’s (M)IMOSA sells face without selling out the voguing tradition at the FTA, May 25-26.

The standard plot in a gothic tale starts with an innocent protagonist who encounters a dangerous or corrupting character – a vampire, a mad scientist, a prince or seducer. In the honky-tonk musical Haunted Hillbilly, playing at the Centaur Theatre to June 3, the seducer is an aging gay costumier played with biting (and spanking) wit by classically trained actor Greg Kramer.

When Michael Healey wrote a play about a Prime Minister that sounded too much like Stephen Harper, Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre got nervous. In refusing to stage the play last season, Tarragon turned Proud into a cause célèbre for intellectual freedom. Out actor and comedian Tom Hein will play the PM in a staged reading Wed May 9 at the Mainline Theatre.

Coming to the close of an acclaimed Canadian tour, Ronnie Burkett’s Penny Plain, a “dark, funny, end-of-the-world romance,” plays at the 5e Salle of Place des Arts to April 21. The theatrical and (more than a little) absurdist theatre explores Burkett’s preoccupations with sensationalist news, the apocalypse and screw-ball comedy using… marionettes!

From March 16 to 31, 2012, the Edgy Women Festival will take over a cluster of stages in Montréal. Now in its 19th year, the festival will be delivering inspiring and diverse performance art works at the Sala Rossa, Studio 303, la Centrale Galerie Powerhouse and the Royal Phoenix. Entre Elles sent Vanessa Girouard to interview the founder and curatorial doyenne, Miriam Ginestier.

My cell phone goes off sitting at the Starbucks on Elgin Street. It’s Derek (D.J.) Eyamie, the star of the upcoming Orpheus production of RENT. He tells me he is running five minutes late. Just as the barista hands me the cup, D.J. races in exactly five minutes late. Apologizing, he pours five sugars into his coffee and stirs it. We grab a table in the back.

Dark, kinetic, and almost frighteningly sexy, Brisbane’s C!RCA has presented a triumph of postmodern circus art C!RCA at the TOHU until Feb. 25. Combining the awe-inspiring feats of acrobatics with the thoughtfulness of contemporary dance, C!RCA’s troupe of rippling bodies, and director Yaron Lifschitz’s intelligent choreography will completely obliterate your winter blues.

From the moment musician Jackie Gallant and dancer Elinor Fueter walk across the stage of the Agora looking like muscle-bound characters in a Michel Tremblay play, to the stunningly sexy underwear sequences and brilliant on-stage music and lighting, George Stamos has surpassed himself. In short: HUSK is a MUST.

Shirtless Australians and a meditation on life and death come to the TOHU this Feb 15 to 23, with a production by Brisbane’s avant-garde circus troupe Circa. Director Yaron Lifschitz’s “radical combination of entertainment and the search for meaning,” by the light of stars that are no longer

Tonight, for the second night in a row, the Dukes of Drag are taking over Montréal’s most fabulous cabaret venue, Sala Rossa, for their full length variety show PANTYMONIUM. Sala Rossa, 4848 St Laurent