Steve Fisher, BFA, CD (he/him)
@gracingthestage.bsky.social
A&E critic emeritus—Torontoist/AV Club/Now Magazine, etc.
HMCS YORK Recruiter/Master Sailor/BOSN.
Canadian Theatre Critics Association board member, #TheaTO hashtag creator.
Burly #BikeTO boi, karaoke kid, LGBTQ+ Ally. BLM
HMCS YORK Recruiter/Master Sailor/BOSN.
Canadian Theatre Critics Association board member, #TheaTO hashtag creator.
Burly #BikeTO boi, karaoke kid, LGBTQ+ Ally. BLM
Pinned
Intro yerself w/ past gigs:
-Ziplined off Enercare Centre as SONAR the RCN Nfld Dog
-Walked in on Beyoncé, Renée Zellweger, & Michael Keaton (as bellhop)
-Hostage actor on train & plane for JTF2
-Wrote a stage intimacy article that went viral
-Crewed aboard HMNZS TE KAHA, Pearl Harbour>Victoria, BC
-Ziplined off Enercare Centre as SONAR the RCN Nfld Dog
-Walked in on Beyoncé, Renée Zellweger, & Michael Keaton (as bellhop)
-Hostage actor on train & plane for JTF2
-Wrote a stage intimacy article that went viral
-Crewed aboard HMNZS TE KAHA, Pearl Harbour>Victoria, BC
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Last week for Comeuppance at Soulpepper, Dissonant Species at Factory, An Orchid at Red Sandcastle, How Do We at HGJTC. Also Christmas Market-Crows, Profoundly Affectionate-Tarragon, Fulfillment Centre-Coal Mine, Narnia-Soulpepper, Dishwashers-Mildreds, Ava-Mirvish, Shrek-YPT, Hallmark(ish)-Royal.
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Last week for Comeuppance at Soulpepper, Dissonant Species at Factory, An Orchid at Red Sandcastle, How Do We at HGJTC. Also Christmas Market-Crows, Profoundly Affectionate-Tarragon, Fulfillment Centre-Coal Mine, Narnia-Soulpepper, Dishwashers-Mildreds, Ava-Mirvish, Shrek-YPT, Hallmark(ish)-Royal.
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50 years ago this week, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made the first pilot for their TV show. In honor of this huge anniversary, I created my definitive “Best of Siskel & Ebert” article - 50 of their best reviews from across their entire career. 👍🏻👍🏻
The 50 Best Siskel & Ebert Reviews
screencrush.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
50 years ago this week, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made the first pilot for their TV show. In honor of this huge anniversary, I created my definitive “Best of Siskel & Ebert” article - 50 of their best reviews from across their entire career. 👍🏻👍🏻
Drop something BLACK & WHITE🖤🤍
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Drop something BLACK & WHITE🖤🤍
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Come for the sheep, stay for the alt text
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Come for the sheep, stay for the alt text
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The White Stripes + OutKast getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on the same night reminded me of my favourite Eye Weekly cover concept, commissioned for our Jan. 22, 2004 Music Critics Poll issue. (Illustration: Ben Shannon)
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The White Stripes + OutKast getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on the same night reminded me of my favourite Eye Weekly cover concept, commissioned for our Jan. 22, 2004 Music Critics Poll issue. (Illustration: Ben Shannon)
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Pleased to share my first piece for the Toronto Star! (Yes, it's about toilets.) Thanks to everyone who shared their #theatre washroom wisdom.
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
Women wait 34 times longer than men for theatre washrooms. Is there finally hope at the end of the line?
When the intermission lights come on, the race for the women's washroom begins.
www.thestar.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Pleased to share my first piece for the Toronto Star! (Yes, it's about toilets.) Thanks to everyone who shared their #theatre washroom wisdom.
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
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Thank you Intermission Magazine for sharing the wonderful news about Tara Beagan’s Governor General’s Literary Award win! www.intermissionmagazine.ca/news/tara-be...
Tara Beagan wins 2025 Governor General’s Award for drama
Her multilingual play 'Rise, Red River' connects environmental devastation with the intergenerational impacts of colonial violence.
www.intermissionmagazine.ca
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Thank you Intermission Magazine for sharing the wonderful news about Tara Beagan’s Governor General’s Literary Award win! www.intermissionmagazine.ca/news/tara-be...
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It's crazy to me that we still treat the online realm like a wild west with thoroughly inadequate law enforcement.
Yeah, there are civil liberties trade-offs to law enforcement. But the breadth and depth of the scam economy is clearly a cancer on our society.
Yeah, there are civil liberties trade-offs to law enforcement. But the breadth and depth of the scam economy is clearly a cancer on our society.
this is the craziest thing I've read in a long time???? Meta projected that 10% of its revenue last year, $16 billion, came from scams. Meta intentionally charges the scammers MORE and knows that people who click on scams are more likely to see more of them www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It's crazy to me that we still treat the online realm like a wild west with thoroughly inadequate law enforcement.
Yeah, there are civil liberties trade-offs to law enforcement. But the breadth and depth of the scam economy is clearly a cancer on our society.
Yeah, there are civil liberties trade-offs to law enforcement. But the breadth and depth of the scam economy is clearly a cancer on our society.
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mmmm my favorite mcdonald’s food, Dore, Caprer, and a side of Cchinges
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
mmmm my favorite mcdonald’s food, Dore, Caprer, and a side of Cchinges
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“Condé was content to hold Teen Vogue up as a prop for diversity, youth representation and progressive ideals when it benefited it, and then to unceremoniously discard the entire publication”
a sad, too-fucking-familiar story
a sad, too-fucking-familiar story
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“Condé was content to hold Teen Vogue up as a prop for diversity, youth representation and progressive ideals when it benefited it, and then to unceremoniously discard the entire publication”
a sad, too-fucking-familiar story
a sad, too-fucking-familiar story
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Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR
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Finally had the chance to catch GOBLIN:OEDIPUS this weekend (what, did something else happen on Saturday?). Loved the show – and especially glad it lived up to the goblins' Mackers.
Here's my profile of Spontaneous Theatre:
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
Here's my profile of Spontaneous Theatre:
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
Spontaneous Theatre has had a benchmark year – and not just because of the goblins
Goblin:Oedipus is the most recent in a string of well-received, semi-improvised plays by the theatre company
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Finally had the chance to catch GOBLIN:OEDIPUS this weekend (what, did something else happen on Saturday?). Loved the show – and especially glad it lived up to the goblins' Mackers.
Here's my profile of Spontaneous Theatre:
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
Here's my profile of Spontaneous Theatre:
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
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Last chance to catch CanStage SLAVE PLAY, BRIGHT STAR & TELL TALE HARBOUR at Mirvish which all close Sunday. Still time for Octet at Crows, CHILD-ish at Tarragon, Little Shop of Horrors at Al Green, The Comeuppance at Soulpepper, Far Side of the Moon at CanStage, Doc Wuthergloom at Red Sandcastle.
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Last chance to catch CanStage SLAVE PLAY, BRIGHT STAR & TELL TALE HARBOUR at Mirvish which all close Sunday. Still time for Octet at Crows, CHILD-ish at Tarragon, Little Shop of Horrors at Al Green, The Comeuppance at Soulpepper, Far Side of the Moon at CanStage, Doc Wuthergloom at Red Sandcastle.
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“The Ford Govt in Ontario has passed a controversial omnibus bill banning municipalities from installing speed cameras.
Ford says it will make the province more efficient & reduce red tape.
It won’t do either, and he knows it.
It might get him “speeder votes” though.
This will kill more people.
Ford says it will make the province more efficient & reduce red tape.
It won’t do either, and he knows it.
It might get him “speeder votes” though.
This will kill more people.
Ford government passes bill banning municipal speed cameras in Ontario
The Ford government has passed a controversial omnibus bill banning municipalities from installing speed cameras.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“The Ford Govt in Ontario has passed a controversial omnibus bill banning municipalities from installing speed cameras.
Ford says it will make the province more efficient & reduce red tape.
It won’t do either, and he knows it.
It might get him “speeder votes” though.
This will kill more people.
Ford says it will make the province more efficient & reduce red tape.
It won’t do either, and he knows it.
It might get him “speeder votes” though.
This will kill more people.
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Arcade Fire came out with a statement saying “win and régine have decided to separate after a long and happy marriage” and my eye may never find its way home from the side
October 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Arcade Fire came out with a statement saying “win and régine have decided to separate after a long and happy marriage” and my eye may never find its way home from the side
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October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Post a vampire that's not Dracula.
October 29, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Post a vampire that's not Dracula.
What the hell... if you're looking for some spooky rock tunes for the season, here's a Halloween playlist covering tunes from 1975-2005. It kicks off w/ the OG horror rock king: Roky Erickson. spotify.link/NphuFWSrQXb
Halloween 2005
spotify.link
October 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
What the hell... if you're looking for some spooky rock tunes for the season, here's a Halloween playlist covering tunes from 1975-2005. It kicks off w/ the OG horror rock king: Roky Erickson. spotify.link/NphuFWSrQXb
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I feel like "we've made an app that gives people psychosis and here's how many people we've sent insane" is past late-stage capitalism. It's some new stage of previously unforeseen horrors beyond human imagination.
by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I feel like "we've made an app that gives people psychosis and here's how many people we've sent insane" is past late-stage capitalism. It's some new stage of previously unforeseen horrors beyond human imagination.
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Two Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors."
2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors"
Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha say they'll defy federal orders regarding Trump's immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.
cbsn.ws
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Two Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors."
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As Game 3 of this year's World Series looms, for Toronto Today @torontotoday.ca I look at how the city celebrated the #bluejays first WS victory in 1992.
#TOHistory #worldseries
www.torontotoday.ca/local/histor...
#TOHistory #worldseries
www.torontotoday.ca/local/histor...
How Toronto celebrated the 1992 Blue Jays World Series win
Historian Jamie Bradburn takes a look back at the pandemonium that followed the Jays' first World Series victory 33 years ago
www.torontotoday.ca
October 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
As Game 3 of this year's World Series looms, for Toronto Today @torontotoday.ca I look at how the city celebrated the #bluejays first WS victory in 1992.
#TOHistory #worldseries
www.torontotoday.ca/local/histor...
#TOHistory #worldseries
www.torontotoday.ca/local/histor...
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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
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I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
October 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone