We're back with our regular Drake Hotel slams and this is the season opener! Yep, our season begins NOW!

We're stoked to feature a TPS Team champ, Optimus Rhyme!

Doors at 7 signup 730pm show 8pm

Open mic available as well

$5.

Hosted by Cathy Petch

More about Mr. Rhyme:

Richard Glen Lett aka Optimus Rhyme is 2013 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word National Slam Poetry champion, Torontos Word On The Street Poetry Slam Champ 2013 and 2014, and runner up Champions Cup Slam 2013 and 2014, and is a prominent and dominant force in Ontario, Canada and North America Slam Poetry and Spoken Word Community.

A recent recipient of Lead Actor Award at the LA WebFest for his starring role in the WebSeries Pay Up he is also an internationally touring headliner stand-up comedian for 25 years, having worked with Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle, Janine Garofalo and Zach Galifianakis and acted in television with Jessica Alba and Michael Chiklis. His comedy is heard regularly on Sirius XM radio. His first two stand-up comedy CDs are titled, Am I Being Insensitive? and At Least Theres Drinking! He is seen on TV shows Supernatural Dark Angel, The Commish and The Firm and has frequent performer and co-host of the Being Frank late night TV talk show with Frank DAngelo. As a playwright, Richard was twice received a Jessie Richardson Award nominations for Most Outstanding Original Play.

Richard continues touring as headline comedian for YukYuks, but most recently debuted a new one man show developing a show using a variety of spoken word story-telling, poetry, stand-up comedy and original music. The show called Sober But Never Clean recovery has never been this entertaining tells how Richard got into stand-up comedy, how it almost killed him, and how he does it sober now. This show was performed at the King Haven Treatment Center for Men in July, 2014, where Richards recovery from alcoholism and addiction began and is now slated to tour nationally in Fringe Theatre Festivals, as well as in Treatment Centers in the Spring and summer of 2015.