Trouble pulling custom post values in loop

Hi,

I have a custom post type ‘events’, which includes date and description fields. I’ve listed them successfully on a page with their permalinks, which results in a link ending in:

/events/ingenuity-2014-kick-off-reception/?title=Ingenuity%202014%20Kick-Off%20Reception

So I’m passing the title in the URL, and then have this code in single.php:

<?php $title = $_GET['title']?>

			<!-- !- Content -->
			<div id="content" class="content" role="main">

				<?php
				$args = array(
				'posts_per_page' => -1,
				'post_type' => 'events',
				'order' => 'asc'
				);
				$eventslist = new WP_Query( $args );
				while ($eventslist->have_posts()) : $eventslist->the_post(); 

				$actual_title = the_title();

				if($title==$actual_title) {

				$description = get_field('description');
				$date = get_field('date');

				 ?>

				 The description:
				 <?php echo $description ?>
				 <?php echo $date ?>
				</div>

				<?php } ?>

For some reason, the resultant single.php page is simply spitting out the titles for every post in the events class. I can’t even see where it would show the title, and am having no luck echoing the description based on that specific title.

Is it the %20 that is messing me up? I thought GET would deal with those. Is it something else I’m missing? I’m really stumped… thanks for any help!