Friday, January 29, 2016
Theatre director flails and bails after criticism over season announcement in which every director, playwright, choreographer or translator was white
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:33PMTuesday, January 26, 2016
Theatre company’s 2016-17 season will shine a spotlight on five plays from our sister nation during our sesquicentennial celebrations
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 08:00AMFriday, January 15, 2016
Drastic changes to the Canada Council for the Arts’s funding model, aimed at encouraging diversity, bring shift in assessment criteria
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:59AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Michael Rubenfeld, the head of SummerWorks Festival, helped the event achieve a national influence as a showcase for the latest and most exciting Canadian work
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:01AMMonday, January 11, 2016
Part vocal recital, part dance show and part projection-filled spectacle, the new performance provides structure for an unconventional look into the history of the universal experience of bl…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:12PMFriday, December 18, 2015
All this activity on top of the usual stuffed seasons at Mirvish Productions, Canadian Stage, Soulpepper and all the others means compiling a definitive year-end top-10 list of theatre in th…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:34PMAll this activity on top of the usual stuffed seasons at Mirvish Productions, Canadian Stage, Soulpepper and all the others means compiling a definitive year-end top-10 list of theatre in th…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:34PMThursday, December 17, 2015
The St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and other civic theatres are still money-losing white elephants, but Kim’s Convenience shows why some subsidized city-owned spaces are still necessary …
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:17PMMonday, December 14, 2015
New production of venerable Broadway show is at least as fascinating as it is flawed
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:04PMFriday, December 4, 2015
Taking kids to a family musical over the holidays is essentially guaranteed to be a special experience for them. But will it be for you, as well?
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:51PMThursday, December 3, 2015
The Castle, a battle of the sexes seemingly set in medieval England, while plot twists in the increasingly Jacobean second half seem senseless
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:38PMFriday, November 27, 2015
Petty will strut his stuff as Captain Hook for the last time this season as he retires from the stage
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:03PMFriday, November 13, 2015
Allegiance, about the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, is the first time the acclaimed Canadian director has tackled a show linked to his personal background
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:59PMThursday, November 5, 2015
Winnipeg-born actor plays a harsh but charismatic writing teacher in the play Seminar
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:43PMThe Shaw Festival’s four stages will be filled with old familiar faces next season – as the Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., repertory theatre bids farewell to its artistic director of 14 year…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
Theatre company has secured the rights to produce the first three parts of Suzan-Lori Parks’s highly acclaimed new spin on The Odyssey, Father Comes Home from the Wars
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:01AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Casting details for several big shows in the Ontario theatre company’s 2016 season unveiled
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:37PMMonday, October 26, 2015
Stratford Festival’s Shakespeare productions next year will include Ian Lake as Macbeth
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AMFriday, October 23, 2015
Butcher, Billion’s theatrical thriller, has hooked directors and companies alike with its twist-filled script and Hitchcockian craftsmanship
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:50PMSunday, October 18, 2015
After being a finalist three times, the Montreal designer went home with the $100,000 prize
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 09:00PMThursday, October 15, 2015
Huff, written and starring Cree performer Cliff Cardinal, is on at Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:29PMMonday, October 12, 2015
Laura Condlln plays Dr. Stockmann in An Enemy of the People in Tarragon Theatre’s fantastic present-day production
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:43PMThursday, October 8, 2015
The Irish actress will perform the Beckett triology this month in Toronto at Canadian Stage
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:57PMFriday, October 2, 2015
British impressionist Luke Kempner’s one-man Downton Abbey spoof has arrived in Canada as Upside Downton, but it’s little more than a series of cross-over sketches
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:19PMTheatre productions big and small are filling out the season from coast to coast, which could mean the country has finally reached a tipping point
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:25PMFriday, September 25, 2015
Receiving a major revival in Montreal, The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God tells a feel-good story about faith and coming to terms with death
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:00PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
Theatre prize will award $100,000 to a Canadian designer
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00AMMonday, September 21, 2015
Teale and Ian McElhinney will play the bad guy and the good guy, respectively, in Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 psychological thriller
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:47PMSunday, August 23, 2015
The Stratford Festival’s zany new production of The Alchemist features a trio of con people who have set up shop in a plague-vacated house to part fools from their money – and have found…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00PMThe Stratford Festival’s zany new production of The Alchemist features a trio of con people who have set up shop in a plague-vacated house to part fools from their money – and have found…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00PMFriday, August 21, 2015
To renew his faith in the art form he loves, J. Kelly Nestruck went back to where it all began: high school. But, as he reports in his final dispatch, the critic discovered the problem with …
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:25PM 
