Friday, 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 01:25PMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Canadian-born director John Caird is directing the most thoroughly diverse cast of the season in Love’s Labour’s Lost
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:04PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
The problem isn’t the international individuals who are hired but the boards and search committees who think ‘world-class’ is something you ship in rather than grow
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:27PMFriday, August 14, 2015
As Lakeshore Collegiate’s Les Misérables opens, ticket sales, and the state of criticism, are causes for concern. But it turns out the exhausting, exhilarating and seemingly impossible jo…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:34PMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Counting Sheep and Like There’s No Tomorrow are two politically charged performances that reel audience members in to this summer indie film festival
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:17PMMonday, August 10, 2015
Deborah Hay and Ben Carlson shed light on the delicate dynamics of The Taming of the Shrew through the lens of their own relationship
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:28PMFriday, August 7, 2015
It’s easy to become discouraged by how often bureaucracy puts up roadblocks in the way of art. This week’s report from Lakeshore Collegiate shows those obstacles can start at the high sc…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:38AMSaturday, August 1, 2015
Drama programs are increasingly shrinking in public schools. It might not only affect the future careers of artists, but the future of theatre itself
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:39AMFriday, July 24, 2015
How to walk the fine line of offence in an increasingly sensitive culture
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:00AMThursday, July 23, 2015
The largest and longest-running queer theatre company in the world has named evalyn parry as the replacement for Brendan Healy
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:00AMFriday, July 17, 2015
To pursue a career in the arts, sacrifices must be made. But economics play an all-too-heavy role, even in high school
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:56PMThis comfortable and private spot features 21 spacious rooms and four ‘petite suites’
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:02PMFriday, July 10, 2015
As Lakeshore Collegiate’s actors start to get a feel for the Les Mis script, Bradley stretches his range in a play written by castmate Olivia
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:45AMWednesday, July 8, 2015
Sweeney Todd and Alice in Wonderland will help bring an end to Jackie Maxwell’s time at the head of the Shaw Festival in 2016
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:15PMTuesday, July 7, 2015
The Irish actress’s performance of three short works by Samuel Beckett – Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby – has been praised to the roof by critics in London and New York
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:26PMFriday, July 3, 2015
After a decade of writing about the art form he loves, critic J. Kelly Nestruck found himself in a moment of crisis. Theatre, it seemed, had grown elitist and out of touch with the country i…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:00PMWednesday, July 1, 2015
Stage version of Oscar-winning film will receive North American premiere at Stratford
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Critic J. Kelly Nestruck keeps an eye on what's going on in theatre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PMThe Canadian-made Broadway hit The Drowsy Chaperone is being developed into a movie musical - and Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush is slated to play the lead.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PMA theatre actor lets loose some vitriol on a fan's blog - and shows artists how not to behave online
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PMRamin Karimloo is excited to be bringing the Phantom back home. "I just got giddy thinking about Toronto," the Canadian star of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies tweeted over the weekend.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PMCompany Theatre production of Franz Xaver Kroetz's Through the Leaves shows the banality of brutality
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PMTheatre festival to feature four plays based on the work of its namesake
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PMGem of a play suggests that who we are consists of what we choose to remember and forget
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PMWith a brash and inventive production of a strange German fable, new artistic and general director Matthew Jocelyn is kicking things off with a bang
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PMSmall English-language outfit scores stunning coup de théâtre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PMPlay dwells on the loneliness of a pair of siblings, but the meaning is lost
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PMThere's something about drag queens that middle-brow theatre audiences seem to find sort of ... cuddly
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PMA good tale, a smart set, an energetic performance and the few problems with the script
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM 
