Friday, 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.
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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…
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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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The actors who star in the hit musical set in Gander, Newfoundland, got a chance to meet some of the real people they play.
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Ho — Ophelia in Why Not Theatre’s Prince Hamlet and the author of Iphigenia and the Furies — gravitates toward the Greek tragedies because they were his first experience of theatre, he…
Linked From Toronto Star at 07:00AMFriday, February 1, 2019
There is valuable information in this theatre production about Japanese Canadian experiences, although the delivery can be confusing, writes Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:23PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Red ink has dogged the Toronto theatre company for 30 years but now, thanks to an American ‘turnaround king,’ artistic director Brendan Healy says it will soon be able to think bigger.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:26PMFriday, January 25, 2019
Nam Nguyen’s Pho is a hilariously energetic look at Vietnamese culture while Julie Phan’s Fine China looks at the painful relationship between a father and his daughters, writes Karen Fr…
Linked From Toronto Star at 04:05PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
In Soulpepper’s first original musical, based on Gertrude Stein’s The World Is Round, the actors and friends play 9-year-olds.
Linked From Toronto Star at 07:00AMSaturday, January 19, 2019
Characters could be considered representative of a crisis in Western culture around destructive and self-destructive behaviours, but that theme plays out perhaps too much in deep background,…
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:07PMFriday, January 18, 2019
The second play in Susanna Fournier’s Empire Trilogy is very beautiful and deeply unpleasant, writes Karen Fricker
Linked From Toronto Star at 04:28PMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Critic Karen Fricker catches and reviews half of the dozen shows in the festival during a packed weekend.
Linked From Toronto Star at 06:20PMSaturday, January 12, 2019
In taking this story on for the indie company Saga Collectif, playwright Ho Ka Kei grappled with the question of where he and his collaborators, mostly queer folks and people of colour, coul…
Linked From Toronto Star at 04:16PMFriday, January 11, 2019
The anchor of the play is Philip Riccio as Clark, who through understated but profound character work draws the audience into Clark’s psyche and his dilemma, writes Karen Fricker.
Linked From Toronto Star at 02:43PMThursday, January 10, 2019
It gets a bit overextended at the end but the Toronro production of The Play That Goes Wrong delivers on its promise: a laugh-filled night where nothing goes right.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:21PMWednesday, January 2, 2019
Theatre professionals offer their thoughts on the state of the industry in Toronto — the changes that have come and those that are still needed.
Linked From Toronto Star at 07:00AMWednesday, December 19, 2018
Orphan Black stars aims to ‘honour and respect’ Faye Dunaway’s turn as Diana Christensen in the 1976 film version, but also tries ‘to own it for myself,’ she tells the Star’s Kar…
Linked From Toronto Star at 09:00AMThursday, December 13, 2018
Circus show by 7 Fingers at CAA Theatre uses performers’ relations as inspiration for their top-notch, wow-factor feats.
Linked From Toronto Star at 01:43PMThe Vancouver-born actor passed his audition ‘with flying colours’ to pay the title role in the Toronto production of Broadway smash Dear Evan Hansen.
Linked From Toronto Star at 06:00AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
With Cirque du Soleil and 7 Fingers opening shows here this week, and Champions of Magic next week, Karen Fricker looks at the appeal of this style of entertainment.
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