Iconic 90s play led by a new generation of performers could lure younger demographic to Stratford this summer
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:00PMWriter Nick Green’s play deeply honours the experiences of gay men at the end of their lives and the people who care for them
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMGross and director Kimberley Rampersad have the guts and vision to let this Stratford Festival Lear be genuinely unlikeable at the start.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:51PMThe original Monty Python troupe member reflects on collaboration, laughter and being a ghost
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:23AMThe musical based on the life of Gypsy Rose Lee is musically resplendent and boasts two superb performances from Hennig and Julie Lumsden.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:38PMDamien Atkins’ retelling puts the focus on the four Pevensie children and the delightful creatures who join them in their quest.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:31PMPamela Mala Sinha latest play has so many such fascinating episodes and layers it feels as if it’s bursting out of its 2.5-hour long run
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:15PMFor some stage fans, downloading a program via QR code is a poor substitute for a record you can hold in your hand.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMThe acts, as expected, are world-class and nicely varied. And the clowns are even funny, not always a guarantee.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:04PMDirector Daniel Brooks creates an updated production in which the actors talk like real people and that includes the audience in a fully realized, emotionally engulfing world.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMLightning transformations between characters and the emerging revelation of the relationship between them is the central theatrical conceit
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMOne looks at the cost of not talking to girls about sex. The other pokes fun at the sexualization and fetishization of Asian women.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:37PMTranscen|Dance Project has done excellent work in delivering a luxurious evening’s entertainment, a local alternative to New York’s “Sleep No More.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:44PMMakram Ayache’s new play “The Hooves Belonged to the Deer” and “Metamorphoses 2023,” based on Ovid’s epic poem, produced by Theatre Smith-Gilmour.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:52PMTitle character Anahita offers an insider perspective into gender, power and freedom in contemporary Iran. I walked away without easy answers.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:26PMHis “sly, funny, charming” solo show about the practice is now playing as “The Land Acknowledgement, or As You Like It” — minus the Shakespeare bait and switch.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:20PMIn “The Yellow Wallpaper” spectators hear and see images of a woman whose mental health is deteriorating. In “Le Concierge” they follow a silent high school janitor.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:00PMM’Carthy has gone from one- or two-person shows to the Stratford Festival to a Canadian stage doubleheader — and he’s ready for much more.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:17AMRavi Jain and Miriam Fernandes wrestled with serving both South Asian audiences familiar with the poem and people who wouldn’t even know how to pronounce it.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMGorgeous production at Young People’s Theatre set in the days before the moon landing is about facing your fears head on.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:56PMIn an English-language classroom in Iran, personalities emerge, relationships form, secrets are revealed.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:35PMPlay weaves together scenes featuring an interracial couple modelled on playwrights Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton with fanciful vignettes riffing on issues about race.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:48AMThis play about the pressures on women to reproduce is difficult and discomfiting, and evidence Coal Mine’s commitment to bold texts in bold productions will continue.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:46PMThe story about how two competing weather forecasts affected the D-Day invasion in the Second World War builds tension into the unscrolling of weather maps.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:25PMThe stage veterans play a husband and wife in Andrew Bovell’s story of family relationships in its Canadian debut.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMCamellia Koo’s set is visually striking — tall diagonal wooden slats create a frame over the stage — and Leigh Ann Vardy’s lighting helps shift location and mood in sometimes natural…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:51PM“Some Like It Hot” on Broadway does a spectacular job of it. “Funny Girl” not so much, despite the star presence of Lea Michele.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMInteractive video experience offers deep dives into the Bard’s works, allowing the festival to engage with people across the country and beyond.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:10PMThis month Crow’s Theatre is producing the world premiere stage version of “Fifteen Dogs,” adapted and directed by Marie Farsi and featuring a cast of six.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMThe show’s simple, hooky premise — a song cycle in different pop genres retelling the Biblical story of Joseph — is an opportunity for one spectacular musical number after another
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:46PMNew Soulpepper and TO Live production is updated with topical references while maintaining the dramatic situation and structure that are key to the play’s success.
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