Wednesday, February 1, 2023
As opening night for ‘Yerma’ approaches, Diana Bentley and Ted Dykstra couldn’t be more grateful for the Coal Mine community’s support for their new venue.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:20AMShakeil Rollock, creator, director and choreographer of “Okay, you can stop now,” says personal histories and the news cycle intersect in more ways than we might assume.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMFriday, January 20, 2023
Despite an at-times unearned length, “Fifteen Dogs” is a must-see for its performances, including Tom Rooney at the top of his game as a lovelorn poodle.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:41PMMonday, January 16, 2023
The TV star makes his Mirvish debut this month in “Pressure,” a British play about the meteorologists who advised Eisenhower while planning D-Day in 1944.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMTuesday, January 10, 2023
‘Girls and Boys’ made a splash in Stratford last summer, a quick jaunt from the behemoth Stratford Festival. Its upcoming remount will play at the Streetcar Crowsnest in Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:56PMSunday, January 8, 2023
Petty took his final bow Saturday, bidding adieu to Toronto’s yearly Christmas pantomime after 25 years.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:32PMFriday, January 6, 2023
MacDonald says she always saw her groundbreaking novel “as a 3D experience for the reader.” Part One opens in Toronto Jan. 20.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMThursday, December 15, 2022
This “Alice in Wonderland” is nothing short of a delight — and Bad Hats Theatre puts on a very good show.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:12PMWhen retail stores deck the halls for holiday shopping, they’re using many of the same tenets of design that make theatrical productions pop, according to experts in both fields.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:23PMWednesday, December 14, 2022
This isn’t the “Moby Dick” of your high school English classroom and these aren’t the puppets from days of Jim Henson yore.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:35PMFriday, December 9, 2022
From Jac Yarrow’s offstage charisma to his vocal chops, it’s clear why Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber chose him as his leading man.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:49PMFriday, December 2, 2022
“The staying power of ‘’da Kink in My Hair’ is rooted in authenticity. And truth,” says Anthony. “Everyone wants to feel seen, heard, listened to, loved, accepted.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMThursday, December 1, 2022
“It’s especially lovely because I’ve been chosen by my peers,” says groundbreaking director Brassard.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:30PMFriday, November 18, 2022
The Ontario native got their start in the street dance sub-genres “popping” and “locking.” When “& Juliet” came knocking, they knew it was the right project for them.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMThursday, November 17, 2022
Playwright, librettist and screenwriter Ambrose has seen firsthand the barriers to immigration. “They’re unfairly skewed to people from certain regions of the world.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMFriday, November 4, 2022
Andrew Broderick, a “Canadian Idol” alum and frequent face on Ontario’s most famous stages, leads in “Choir Boy” by “Moonlight” screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMSaturday, October 29, 2022
Moscovitch’s corporate drama ‘Post-Democracy’ premieres at Tarragon Theatre in November.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:49PMFriday, October 28, 2022
“Being a Canadian expat out here in the States, I’ve seen this rise of xenophobia firsthand. And it’s felt very scary at times,” says Sundeep Morrison.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMSunday, October 23, 2022
Haley McGee and director Mitchell Cushman are a dream team, two masterminds with a penchant for controlled chaos and mess, and they’re both at the top of their game.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:58AMFriday, October 21, 2022
Studio 180’s take on Paula Vogel’s gorgeous play corrects the record of Sholem Asch’s “God of Vengeance,” and it does so with heart and grit.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:33PM“This is an age-old tale. And it’ll always be around because it will always matter,” says Jasmine Rogers on the staying power of “Mean Girls.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMSunday, October 16, 2022
“Ultimately, it’s all to serve,” said Wahsontí:io Kirby, who acts in “1939” and contributed Mohawk translations of Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That Ends Well.” “The spirit…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
“Indecent” premiered on Broadway in 2017 when Vogel was 65 and had already won a Pulitzer Prize for “How I Learned to Drive.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMFriday, October 7, 2022
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s haunting story of child slavery and community loss is unspeakably sad — and impeccably well staged.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:53PMThursday, October 6, 2022
The Siminovitch Prize is the most significant theatre award in Canada, worth $100,000 in all.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMThursday, September 29, 2022
Her non-fiction book of the same name won the Grantham Prize for excellence in environmental journalism in 2010.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:30AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
He’s been lovingly nicknamed “The Brucester,” and he joins a long line of fibreglass statues made for Mirvish by Gerald McLoughlin.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:43PMThe stories of Kurdish female freedom fighters are the focus of a verbatim theatre production — using interview transcripts and found footage — in Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:30AMThursday, September 22, 2022
The beloved musical set in Gander after the events of Sept. 11, 2001 has a triumphant concert staging in St. John’s.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMSaturday, September 3, 2022
“Sometimes magic can come out of destruction,” says artistic director Diana Bentley. “Extraordinary things can come out of moments like this.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:00PMWednesday, August 31, 2022
Here’s a cheat sheet for some of the best deals on theatre tickets for the upcoming 2022-23 season.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM 
