Sunday, December 9, 2018
A piece of advice for audiences is to pay attention right off the top, as information provided then informs everything that follows.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:17PMThursday, December 6, 2018
Songs, jokes and meta-jokes in an intimate space are just what this time of year needs, writes Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:49PMSunday, December 2, 2018
Powerful direction and design choices, a committed solo performance and well-advised brevity make a strong impact.
Linked From Toronto Star at 02:33PMSaturday, December 1, 2018
After several weeks of controversy, Buddies in Bad Times is back to the business of its 40th anniversary season with a welcome revival of this 2012 hit.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:29PMPetty, who’s staging The Wizard of Oz, sees pantos as a response to the negativity coming from the U.S. while Torr, whose Torrent Productions is presenting Cinderella, touts pantos for bri…
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:00PMThursday, November 29, 2018
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical adaptation of the hit film is too long, yet it gets better as it goes along, thanks to an impressive cast of young talent who play their own instruments, writ…
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:37PMMonday, November 19, 2018
There is a disconnect between the wild imaginative power of Monkey’s adventures and the limited material means through which they’re conveyed, writes Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 11:22AMFriday, November 16, 2018
R.H. Thomson is in bravura form as McLuhan, but play’s female actors are sorely underused, writes Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:26PMThursday, November 15, 2018
Middletown, now at Toronto’s Streetcar Crowsnest, shows off authorial voice found, the writer says, after exhausting work on Wall Street.
Linked From Toronto Star at 11:58AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
Michael Rubenfeld took mother Mary Berchard, a daughter of Holocaust survivors, to Poland to work some things out in their relationship. He came back with a documentary play.
Linked From Toronto Star at 07:00AMSaturday, November 10, 2018
Director Ken Gass’s new approach with female actors of varied cultural and ethnic backgrounds comes across as projecting the experiences of others.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:35PMFriday, November 9, 2018
YPT’s version of the beloved musical also takes a welcome approach to casting, with Vanessa Sears playing Mary with winning crispness, writes Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:15PMWednesday, November 7, 2018
Surprise, uncertainty, even risk are part of the experience for those who take the theatrical voyage that begins in Barrie, Ontario and ends in London, England three days later.
Linked From Toronto Star at 07:00AMMonday, October 29, 2018
Journalists Jesse Kline and Jesse Brown find the theatre production about the liberal/conservative ideological divide is an accurate microcosm of what passes for civil discourse today.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:31PMSaturday, October 27, 2018
The story is a microcosm of something billions of members of the human race have gone through, but which Western society still tells us is not appropriate for polite conversation: what it’…
Linked From Toronto Star at 02:51PMFriday, October 26, 2018
Despite its unflattering portrayal of a Jewish family fighting over an inheritance, Rabbi Edward Elkin tells Karen Fricker he sees merit in Bad Jews.
Linked From Toronto Star at 03:43PMThursday, October 25, 2018
The play is acutely topical, even though it’s been in development for nine years, writes Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 02:41PMFriday, October 19, 2018
Marco Ramirez’s powerful play is based on the real-life story of boxer Jack Johnson, who became world heavyweight champion in 1910, sparking race riots.
Linked From Toronto Star at 03:29PMAnosh Irani crams a lot of deep themes into his cricket-themed play, but the humour falls flat and the production feels unfinished, writes Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:37PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Jukebox musical’s story of the Motown hitmakers stuffs a lot of events and songs into show dominated all the same by the music — especially the talents of the performers.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:32PMXENOS, Akram Khan’s last full-length work as a solo dancer came together with help of star Canadian writer Jordan Tannahill. It runs from Oct. 18 to 21 at the Bluma Appel Theatre.
Linked From Toronto Star at 11:45AMNew theatre leadership at Soulpepper and beyond are part of trend in Canadian theatre, one with a chance to connect with new audiences and artists.
Linked From Toronto Star at 06:30AMMonday, October 15, 2018
Leighton Alexander Williams’ production delivers fabulous theatricality on what is surely not an enormous budget, Karen Fricker writes.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:00AMSaturday, October 13, 2018
The much-lauded play about a girls’ soccer team was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:45PMFriday, October 12, 2018
Rufus Wainwright and Daniel MacIvor spent years fine-tuning their ambitious new opera before its world premiere Saturday at the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto.
Linked From Toronto Star at 09:00AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
Its creator, Erum Khan, says the play Noor’s open rehearsals provide a new kind of energy as interested museumgoers drift in and out.
Linked From Toronto Star at 06:00AMThursday, August 30, 2018
Emma Stenning comes to Toronto, after scandal drove Schultz from his post, after serving as chief executive at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre in England.
Linked From Toronto Star at 08:00AMWednesday, August 29, 2018
Everything came together to allow Maev Beaty and Liisa Repo-Martell to appear in A Beautiful View, directed by Andrea Donaldson.
Linked From Toronto Star at 08:30AMTuesday, August 21, 2018
Outdoor Toronto show’s fresh perspective, partly created by writer Kaitlyn Riordan, shows us an unseen side of ancient Rome.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:36PMThe theatre festival for works in development shows its merits as, while still evolving, two shows got valuable exposure to an audience’s responses and opinions.
Linked From Toronto Star at 11:51AMFriday, August 17, 2018
Real-life couple Gregory Prest and Paolo Santalucia play about 20 characters in Soulpepper run of Mark Crawford’s hit comedy.
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