Call for Submissions

We are now accepting submissions for the 2015 SOULO Theatre Festival. Now in its third year, the festival is a four-day intensive of performances, panel discussions and workshops where every event is one-performance-only. We are looking for recently-performed finished work, 45-60 minute one-person shows. The festival will be May 21-24, 2015 at the Red Sandcastle Theatre in Toronto. For the full details and the submission form, please visit soulo.ca/submissions

The 2014 festival was a huge success and earned SOULO Theatre the title of Best Small Theatre Company from NOW Magazine's Reader's Choice. Past speakers have included artists and speakers have included Tantoo Cardinal, Linda Griffiths, Sandra Shamas, Chris Gibbs, Daniel Stofi, Sebastien Heins, Shelley Marshall, Rachelle Ellie, Terrence Bryant, Precious Chong, Phil Luzi, Sandra Battaglini, Zabrina Chavannes, Deb Filler, Wanda Caroll, Sage Tyrtle, Adrianna Prosser, Christopher Sawchyn and many others.

As the General Manager of the festival, I have no say in show selection. Even so, I will still be accepting bribes personally including but not limited to chocolate, pastries, cash, traceable securities and rare magic books because I enjoy those things.

This Sunday on Magic Tonight

This week on the show we have Canadian Magician of the Year Bill Abbott. He's been on the show many times (as evidenced below). Normally you have to go all the way up to Vaughan to see his show Every Trick in the Book at Dave & Busters. But he's here downtown Sunday, November 30! Tickets to the show are available at www.abracadabaret.com/purchase-tickets Save $5 per person by purchasing online.

Nov 30 Abbott

Bill is always so well dressed, I'm going to have to up my game!

Keith Brown & Jason Palter on Magic Tonight

From last Sunday's Magic Tonight at the Izakaya Showroom where we had special guests Keith Brown and Jason Palter. We have new special guests every week! Tickets are available online - actually $5 cheaper than at the door.

There's also a best of the best gallery from all of our shows at www.abracadabaret.com/gallery/magic-tonight

And then there were three!

We'll be having an extra special guest for Magic Tonight this Sunday. We already have Jason Palter (see yesterday's post) and now we will be joined, all the way from London, the uber talented, uber charming and uber handsome Keith Brown. Keith was a recent speaker at the University of Windsor TEDx conference. You can see his talk below. It's going to be a truly magic-packed show this week. Tickets to the show are available online. Online tickets are actually $5 cheaper than tickets at the door and groups of five or more can save even more.

This week on Magic Tonight

This Sunday we will be joined by one of our favourite performers, Jason Palter. He is the winner of the Canadian Event Industry's Entertainer of the Year Award and has been on our shows many, many (many!) times. Advance tickets for the show are available at www.magictonight.ca. You save $5 per ticket by purchasing online with additional discounts for large groups.

And we've been busy - check out the gallery to see highlights from our latest shows.

Nov 23 Palter

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And NOW for something completely different

SOULO Theatre - where I plot and scheme away, largely behind the scenes as the general manager - has just won Best Small Theatre Company from NOW Magazine's Best of Toronto Reader's Choice! Massive credit goes to the team that helped organize the 2014 SOULO Theatre Festival and massive thanks to everyone who voted over the past few months. It's a tremendous honour.

I also spent the afternoon earlier this week locked in a room with some wifi, unhealthy amounts of coffee and the Artistic Director, Tracey Erin Smith, planning updates to the soulo.ca website and there will be more interesting news coming out of that work shortly.