Friday, May 17, 2019
The poetry of a real-life man labouring in inhumane conditions is set to music in I swallowed a moon made of iron, at Berkeley Street Theatre.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:03PMThursday, May 16, 2019
Founded 18 years ago as festival of five short plays, the Paprika Festival has grown into an organization supporting young and emerging artists year-round, culminating this year in a weeklon…
Linked From Toronto Star at 09:01AMMonday, May 13, 2019
Erin Shields’s play Beautiful Man is mostly made up of three women (Ashley Botting, Mayko Nguyen, Sofia Rodriguez) sitting on tall stools narrating their experience of watching that cop sh…
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:00AMSunday, May 12, 2019
There is no mystery around the fact that Wyndham Brandon and Charles Granillo have strangled an Oxford classmate. The suspense is whether or not they’ll be found out.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:00AMSaturday, May 11, 2019
Christine Brubaker has created an extraordinary esprit de corps amongst the 14-member cast and the nearly-all-female creative team.
Linked From Toronto Star at 09:00AMFriday, May 10, 2019
Tragic love story between two men in early 20th-century rural Quebec, undermined by homophobia and social conservatism tied to the Catholic Church.
Linked From Toronto Star at 08:00AMMonday, May 6, 2019
Performer portraying Presley says he relishes winning over doubters in show coming to Princess of Wales Theatre this week.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:21PMThursday, May 2, 2019
Musical Stage Company gives Toronto a good production, with flaws to be worked on, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.
Linked From Toronto Star at 11:50AMMonday, April 29, 2019
Cliff Cardinal’s new dark comedy and directing debut isn’t entirely successful in VideoCab’s black box format, but it’s an entertaining evening highlighted by terrific performances, …
Linked From Toronto Star at 11:05AMFriday, April 26, 2019
The musical about a flawed teenager ‘is about all of us. We all want to be liked to some degree,’ says the head of Mirvish Productions, who chased the show for two years.
Linked From Toronto Star at 08:00AMOld Stock veers from noisily confrontational to lyrical to sardonic, with a buildup of character through beautifully observed, often wryly funny dialogue, writes Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 07:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
For performer Sky Gilbert, trigger warnings are ‘dangerous for art.’ The Coal Mine Theatre, on the other hand, plans to change what it stages to avoid triggering audiences, writes Karen …
Linked From Toronto Star at 07:00AMSaturday, April 6, 2019
More than a glimpse at the inner workings of leveraged buyout schemes, production offers a vantage on the mentality of those whose world is defined by them.
Linked From Toronto Star at 02:02PMFriday, April 5, 2019
Jenny Brizard soars in title role as four theatre companies pool their efforts for a demanding play that should be produced more often.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:20PMWednesday, April 3, 2019
Bigre has made people laugh across Europe, but transporting it to Toronto brings an element of risk for Pierre Guillois, writes Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 07:00AMSunday, March 31, 2019
New play is part of Lisa Ryder’s efforts to rupture societal taboos around such experiences, which are widely shared and yet still not much talked about in the mainstream.
Linked From Toronto Star at 02:47PMFriday, March 29, 2019
Sina Gilani’s rewriting of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis is fluid and mature, but the production’s talkiness sometimes gets in the way of his ideas, writes Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 02:35PMFriday, March 22, 2019
Cast members get individual chances to shine in show dwelling on life in Toronto now, notably the TTC and the real-estate madness.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:14PMWednesday, March 20, 2019
This isn’t Ibsen’s Nora but the one from Lucas Hnath’s ‘cheeky’ reimagining of the characters in A Doll’s House, Part 2.
Linked From Toronto Star at 07:00AMFriday, March 15, 2019
Stringing together one research example after another and interspersing them with vignettes about how hard it is to make art do not make a particularly meaningful contribution to the convers…
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:52PMThursday, March 14, 2019
Venezuelan-Canadian Augusto Bitter’s show at Passe Muraille marks him as a talent to be watched.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:09PMFriday, March 8, 2019
Playwright Lianna Makuch and her team have done a remarkable job tying together a journey in search of family roots with thoughtful commentary on present-day, war-torn Ukraine, writes Karen …
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:14PMAustralian show created by and for women of colour to showcase their story is in Burlington this weekend and Toronto in April
Linked From Toronto Star at 11:33AMThursday, March 7, 2019
Ambitious choice by upstart theatre company to use jail as venue undermines the considerable gifts of cast.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:45PMWednesday, March 6, 2019
Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls deals with serious issues like shadism but also ‘the loudness, the humour, the fun of African women,’ the actors tell Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 07:00AMFriday, March 1, 2019
‘Incorporating dance into complex text is like walking a tightrope,’ says choreographer Dottor of her work with playwright and director MacKenzie.
Linked From Toronto Star at 11:18AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
Tense climate doesn’t much change in show until March 3 performed at an intriguing Toronto site.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:30PMAccompanied by U of T professor Kathleen Gallagher, Kushnir interviewed young people in five countries for play that opens this week at Streetcar Crowsnest.
Linked From Toronto Star at 07:00AMFriday, February 22, 2019
First presented in a workshop version in the 2015 RISER Project, Adam Paolozza’s Paolozzapedia still has a strong work-in-progress vibe, writes Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 03:15PMSunday, February 17, 2019
The world premiere play Mules, about a first-time drug smuggler (Eva Barrie), holed up in the washrooms at Vancouver Airport with her trafficker (Anita Majumdar), waiting for the goods to re…
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:00AMFriday, February 15, 2019
Director Joel Greenberg’s production at CAA Theatre of J.T. Rogers’ play about a daring real-life peace mission overcomes slightly thin characterizations.
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