Author: Karen Bliss

The Theatre at Great Canadian Casino Resort Toronto, a new 5,000-capacity venue with retractable seating system, has opened next to Woodbine Racetrack on the expanded grounds of the former Casino Woodbine (now called Grandstand Casino), in the northwest side of the Greater Toronto Area, known as Etobicoke, just 10 mins drive from Pearson Airport. Continue Reading Stefani And Shelton Mean Showtime For New Toronto Casino Theater

A couple of Toronto club owners had a tongue-in-cheek response to the news last week that Live Nation would no longer take a cut of merch sales at the clubs they own and operate and would throw in $1,500 for gas and travel expenses per show to headliners and support acts (on top of their performance compensation). Continue Reading Indies Sound Off On LN Merch Cut

Less than an hour’s drive from Toronto in Oshawa, Ontario, is the 81-year-old Biltmore Theatre, an original Art Deco movie theatre turned live entertainment venue that offers hotdogs and popcorn to its 536-capacity crowd (260-seated), while they watch such established Canadian names as Chantal Kreviazuk, Sloan, Big Wreck, Carole Pope, Kim Mitchell and the Trews. Continue Reading Biltmore Eliminates its cut of merch sales