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Jan 21

It's the one month anniversary of SO SUMI, my website on the Toronto performing arts! Thank you to everyone who's followed along/commented/encouraged me. To others: please subscribe! The season's heating up soon and you won't want to miss a post. #TheaTO goaheadsumi.com

Tina Yazdani

@TinaYazdani

“Why aren’t you investing in community crisis supports on the TTC? You just admitted police will do nothing to address the root causes of violence” a concerned transit rider confronts Mayor Tory after an announcement that police are increasing their presence on transit

@ttcriders

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RIP Noah Cowan, the Midnight Madness OG. Thank you for teaching me, believing me and supporting me.

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Meryn

@Swordlover18

1/ To my understanding #TTC's budget got cut, #fares for going up. I believe

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's budget also got slashed. Both places where ppl get warm (depending on the station) there are washrooms & esp for #libraries there's support: computers, bks, a safe space. #Budget2023

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Wow. Announcing no subway service between Ossington and Keele, during a major storm and amidst a string of violent incidents, a calm TTC employee tells riders to phone the mayor’s office. This is

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Just keeps on giving.

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Sean Hertel

@Sean_Hertel

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The scene outside Toronto’s Keele subway station today, queuing for shuttle bus after surprise shutdown. I was late for a talk I was giving on transportation planning. Can’t make this stuff up, folks.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if Joe just went on to become a certain psychology professor?

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Jen Esmail

@JenEsmail

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Through a combination of privilege, luck and science, my family has dodged covid until my child caught it at school this week. So, while I lay in bed feverish and coughing, I’m sharing a random list of policy choices the Ford government has made that led directly to this. 1/

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Wow. Announcing no subway service between Ossington and Keele, during a major storm and amidst a string of violent incidents, a calm TTC employee tells riders to phone the mayor’s office. This is 💣

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Adam Chaleff

@AdamCF

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With TTC staff literally under attack, you can’t blame operators for making sure passengers know it’s John Tory’s fault transit service is so bad.

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Every. Single. Time. Why is winter not a bus design requirement? Forget self-driving, solve this.

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Tom Stef

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Good Samaritan @tonyfera1 helping to save a stuck TTC bus with kitty litter… #ONStorm

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Yassss!!! Go, Brandon!

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justin david sullivan

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just two queer mixed asians falling in love on a broadway stage

happy francois debut to the incredible brandon antonio!! @AndJulietBway

how tf are we gonna trust a nepo baby with ties to robbers wireless to know how to protect us? he and his rosedale bubble have private driveways for their benzes while people literally have no other option than to take the ttc to survive

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There's been violence on #Toronto's public transit every day this week. This morning, 2 #TTC employees allegedly chased w/ a syringe. Yesterday, a woman was stabbed in an unprovoked attack on streetcar. Monday, 10-15 teens allegedly swarmed and assaulted 2 employees on a bus

WTAF?

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Tracy Tong 唐麗盈

@TracyTongTV

#BREAKING ANOTHER violent attack on the TTC. A person reportedly stabbed on a TTC bus year Bloor & Old Mill around 4pm. Suspect described as 20s, medium build, wearing blue mask, black jacket w/ hood up. Last seen running on Bloor. Call @torontopolice with info.

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This is arguably the best Oscar clip ever. Honest, heartbreaking, humane. It’s all there.

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Michael Warburton

@MichaelWarbur17

He spent 7yrs in foster care, in 13 different foster homes. He got his first acting job answering an ad he saw in a shop window. He was given nothing, was meant to achieve nothing. Today - aged 30 - BARRY KEOGHAN was nominated for an Oscar. THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (2022)

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PlayME Podcast by Expect Theatre

@ExpectTheatre

A regularly updated list of shows currently playing or opening soon

Our interview with

@moscotweets

, Playwright of Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, is now LIVE! Listen to

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PlayME interview here: link.chtbl.com/ofgZA8aM. Tune into

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or SiriusXM Sundays 9PM & Wednesdays 11PM EST. 📸: Alejandro Santiago 🔈: Chris Tolley

Psst... I know some #TheaTO lovers like planning ahead. So my site's new Toronto theatre listings now extend til April. More than 50 shows are listed, with where to send listings info at the end.

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Toronto theatre listings

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wins her first oscar for "women talking," all of toronto should take to the streets and celebrate, just like when the raptors won.

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Woman stabbed multiple times on Toronto streetcar, police say | CBC News

I take this streetcar several times a week. I’ve upped my usage of the subway and hear constant messages about ppl on tracks or incidents. If I could avoid it I would.

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A woman in her 20s has been stabbed multiple times on a Toronto streetcar, police say.

The RepresentASIAN Project™

@repasianproject

Honouring the victims of the Monterey Park shooting ❤️ (We will update this thread as new information comes in)

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Cate "Who Is that Masked Woman?" McKim (she/her)

@lifemorecowbell

If you're not already doing so, do yourself a favour & subscribe to SO SUMI. Keep up with theatre news & reviews - as well as listings - in Toronto, courtesy of one of the most knowledgeable, insightful reviewers around. #theaTO

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Saw this outside Holt Renfrew, the home of overpriced stuff. 😂

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Dana Stevens

@thehighsign

Women Talking About Never Being Nominated for Best Director Even When Their Movie is Recognized for Both Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay

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With Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, and Hong Chau all making the cut, I believe this is the most Asian actors who have ever Oscar-nominated in a single year.

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Michelle Yeoh is only the second Asian woman to be nominated for the best-actress Oscar. The first, Merle Oberon, hid her Asian ancestry when she was nominated all the way back in 1935.

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WOMEN TALKING!!! WOMEN TALKING!!!

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The Academy

@TheAcademy

And the nominees for Best Picture are... #Oscars #Oscars95

Soooo happy about this one! Wow.

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TIFF

@TIFF_NET

“I think it’s nice that we share the same sky.” Celebrating Paul Mescal’s first Oscar nomination for his moving performance in Charlotte Wells’s AFTERSUN. #OscarNoms

A portrait of actor Paul Mescal. He wears a white tee and a matching dark grey set.

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Cannot overemphasize how dangerous this was. Brandon Tsay put his own life at risk and in doing so saved countless families from inconceivable tragedy. twitter.com/angryasianman/

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LOL. Thanks Mr Weston. Lock in a more expensive No Name price than the f—king NAME BRAND price. Good job. 👏🏼 👏🏼

Have you ever gone shopping for the ingredients you needed for a recipe and then come home and, when preparing said recipe, realized the staples you thought you already had (because you always have them - they're staples) you didn't have? Looking at you, tomato paste. Ugh.

Ticketmaster fees are truly out of control. Example: This $23 ticket (to Lucy at the Minetta Lane Theatre) winds up costing $37.50—a markup of 63%. This needs to stop. Meanwhile: ALWAYS BUY DIRECTLY AT THE BOX OFFICE WHEN YOU CAN.

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Mischa Kischkum AKA @getmisch@masto.nyc

@getmisch

Jan 23

Check this original thread. Full of riches for us music nerds.

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Musical theatre lovers: is there a motif or orchestral callback within a song that always affects you? I love how "Someone is Waiting" nudges into "Being Alive." But it always breaks my heart when "Some Enchanted Evening" is evoked during "This Nearly Was Mine."

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Jan 23

Call it the Power of Musical Theatre! I posted this yesterday, and today, you can betcha bottom dollar, the sun is out! Thanks, Annie. I will never doubt you again.

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Not if you’re living in grey, depressing Toronto, Annie.

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A regularly updated list of shows currently playing or opening soon

Jan 23

ICYMI I launched a Toronto Thea Listings section on my site! No drop-down menus, nothing fancy. Just a list of shows currently playing, opening this week or coming in the next month. If I've reviewed a show, I'll include a link to it!

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Toronto theatre listings

Thank you

for the theatre news, reviews & LISTINGS! Friends, make sure to subscribe: goaheadsumi.com

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In my new SO SUMI column, I single out two actors delivering career best turns in @crowstheatre's FIFTEEN DOGS, touch on @buddiesTO' call for co-directors and introduce the beta version of the site's Toronto Theatre Listings. goaheadsumi.com/fifteen-dogs-b