Today in Toronto: Kenny Rogers, Frankenstein, Featuring Loretta

The Great War: Infinitely more entertaining than your high-school history class, VideoCabaret has devoted the past 25 years to creating and remounting 21 plays about life in Canada. On the docket this time is The Great War, Michael Hollingsworth’s satirical look at the forgotten men of World War I. Find out more >>

Featuring Loretta: This George F. Walker one-act revolves around the titular waitress, who, following her philandering husband’s death by bear, gets pregnant by said husband’s best friend, and starts kinda-sorta dating a screw salesman who is locked in a battle for Loretta with a topless bar booker obsessed with making porn starring her and the ex-KGB motel owner’s physicist daughter. Find out more >>

Frankenstein: Catalyst Theatre’s imaginative take on Mary Shelley’s oft-adapted gothic novel—here a stylish, stylized musical dressed up completely in white paper—travels east to Canadian Stage three years after its acclaimed premiere in Edmonton. Find out more >>

Kenny Rogers: A mainstay of American music, Kenny Rogers can boast a long list of accomplishments, the most entertaining of which has to be serving as the inspiration for the Web site menwholooklikekennyrogers.com. His local doppelgängers can catch their hero during his three-night stand at Casino Rama. Find out more >>