Wednesday, October 13, 2021
‘As a piece of art this play will do its job to educate people,’ says lead actor Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah. The play is set during the G20 protests of 2010 when police kettled hundreds o…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:30AMWednesday, September 29, 2021
‘She’s this great unifier,’ says Fiona Sauder. The concert will use the ‘connective tissue’ of Parton’s music to help audiences celebrate being together again.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:30AMSaturday, September 25, 2021
For Akosua Amo-Adem, it’s about being a Ghana-born Canadian, which she explores through standup comedy. Cheyenne Scott and Qasim Khan also perform in ‘The Home Project.’
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:30AMWednesday, September 22, 2021
Toronto venue that started out as the Pantages in 1920 will now be the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:00AMTuesday, September 21, 2021
Blake served as a youth advocate this summer on the Stratford Festival’s “R+J,” an adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet.” Her role included helping 14-year-old Eponine Lee as Juliet eng…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:49PMFriday, September 10, 2021
Both festivals are staging productions this summer in which the N-word is used. To some Black theatre artists, removing the word isn’t a solution: ‘If you decide to cut that term, you de…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMFriday, September 3, 2021
‘They were in a continent filled with Black people and all they did was moon at the princess,’ the playwright says about the Season 1 episode. In ‘Serving Elizabeth,’ she revisits th…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMThe theatre piece presents the climate emergency as a generational inheritance that baby boomers and Gen X-ers have passed on to today’s youth, and channels the fury of Greta Thunberg and …
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMSunday, August 29, 2021
While telling a story about playwright Edward Albee, actor Martha Henry holds a photo up to the screen: A photo of Albee, looking intensely at the camera and stroking a white cat.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMFriday, August 6, 2021
The word “immersive” gets thrown around a lot these days, and in this case the description is merited: All of the elements of this production combine to place you at the centre of its di…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:00PMWednesday, August 4, 2021
From Shakespeare in the Ruff (stray wild animals included) to Guild Festival Theatre, from a remount of ‘Alphonse’ to Here for Now Theatre in Stratford, from ‘The Motorcycle Monologues…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:30AMTuesday, July 27, 2021
‘It was written in 1986 … all of the characters were affected by residential school,’ says actor Tracey Nepinak, part of the all-Indigenous cast of the Stratford Festival production.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:09PMSaturday, July 24, 2021
Theatre under the canopies allows producers to make full use of the audience space in ‘joyful, satisfying heartbreaking’ return
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:18PMThursday, July 22, 2021
Both theatres are premiering their first plays of the season this week, and it’s been a monumental and emotional journey to get here.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:09AMWednesday, July 7, 2021
The circus acts include hoop diving, Cyr wheel, aerial silks, juggling and Chinese pole: acrobats scrambling up, spinning around and doing death dives off of vertical poles. Most thrillingly…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:36PMHere’s what the Shaw Festival, the Stratford Festival, Mirvish Productions and other theatre companies in Toronto have planned as they welcome patrons back to live performances — with pl…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMWednesday, June 30, 2021
Montreal’s 7 Fingers brings ‘Together Apart, Summer Cirque’ to the Markham Fairgrounds. Its artists have been missing performing ‘death-defying acts,’ says 7 Fingers co-artistic di…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:27PMMonday, June 28, 2021
But given the immersive show’s otherwise impressive attention to detail, it’s disappointing that the English-language soundtrack still features the voices of actors from the London, U.K.…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:10PMThursday, June 24, 2021
Toronto’s Musical Stage Company presents ‘BLACKOUT’ from July 23 to Aug. 15 — fittingly, under the stars at the High Park Amphitheatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMMonday, May 31, 2021
Close to 100 arts organizations ask the province to amend its Roadmap to Reopen or risk more damage to the already devastated performing arts industry.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:23PMWednesday, May 5, 2021
Toronto actors Blythe Haynes and Ryan G. Hinds have been rehearsing a week in advance. English actors Mina Anwar and Darren Jeffries will come into the May 6 performance pretty much cold. …
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMFriday, April 9, 2021
With the latest COVID-19 stay-at-home order in Ontario preventing theatre companies from even rehearsing or recording content, organizations are cautiously planning late spring or summer sho…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:30AMFriday, March 12, 2021
Richard B. Harrison made a living touring North America reading Shakespeare and poetry until ‘The Green Pastures’ came along. Actor Walter Borden and director Jeff Culbert want to make s…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:30AMThursday, March 11, 2021
Some of the world’s most successful musicals are hitting Australian stages thanks to that country’s COVID-19 measures. In Toronto, where theatres are still closed, arts organizations are…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMThursday, January 21, 2021
Ricard, who takes over the helm of the Théâtre français de Toronto in July, joins a number of other recently appointed female Black theatre leaders in Toronto, including Weyni Mengesha at…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMTuesday, December 8, 2020
TO Live and Buddies in Bad Times are among the international organizations supporting ‘Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce — Pandemic!’ — a vaudeville-style revue of musical numbers, film, …
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMFriday, December 4, 2020
From Berlin to Sydney, Toronto’s co-artistic directors David Eisner and Avery Saltzman bring together a dozen Jewish theatres from around the world to link up in seasonal concert
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:27PMSunday, November 1, 2020
Theatre Direct’s new online show pulls young audiences in with its Zoom-style staging and post-show talkback.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMWednesday, October 21, 2020
Freshly created web series ‘Leer Estates’ is just one highlight of theatre fest’s new digital subscription service, also a Shakespearean game show and films of famed stage productions …
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMThursday, September 17, 2020
What will the future hold for theatre in Toronto? It has to extend beyond how to stage live productions again during COVID-19 to the very structure of organizations, to who’s making theatr…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMTuesday, June 9, 2020
The Cree playwright, whose ‘The Cave’ is part of the online Luminato Festival, says ‘the greater the challenge the greater the fight,’ whether it’s anti-Black racism, climate chang…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AM 
