20 June 2018
Cannibal Galaxy: A Love Story
By Chris Behmke // Theatre (New York)
Cannibal Galaxy: A Love Story, currently running at The New Ohio Theatre on Christopher Street, benefits from strength of concept and cast-demographic. It relies on a relatively small cast of …
19 June 2018
Luminato 2018: Swan Lake/Loch na hEala
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
Luminato 2018 promised to interrogate the issues of human-rights, justice and inclusion, and Swan Lake/Loch na hEala does not disappoint with its dark themes of loss—of innocence, of purpose, and …
18 June 2018
Machinal at the Almeida
By Jordan Morrissey // Theatre (London)
It is remarkable that the principal themes of Machinal, an expressionist 1928 play by Sophie Treadwell, should resonate so acutely with the dominant questions of the modern world. Ideas of a …
18 June 2018
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives at the Arcola Theatre
By Adam Mcdonnell // Theatre (London)
With a sharp and witty script delivered with crisp precision, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives is highly entertaining throughout, combining comedy and drama gracefully to produce a wonderfully …
16 June 2018
Bad Dog’s Proud + Funny
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Bad Dog Comedy Theatre is getting in on Pride month with an Official Pride Toronto Community event this weekend, a two-day mini-festival of shows highlighting LGBTQ performers. Three shows on …
15 June 2018
Randy Write a Novel on Theatre Row
By Chris Behmke // Theatre (New York)
Randy Writes A Novel, currently playing at the Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row, is not what one would conventionally call “theatre,” per se. The show is set in a theatre, …
14 June 2018
String of Pearls
By Mary-Margaret Scrimger // Theatre (Toronto)
String of Pearls, brought to you by Labour of Love, chronicles the life line of a pearl necklace and it’s connection to the women who wear it. It’s a story …
08 June 2018
Sancho: An Act of Remembrance at Wilton’s Music Hall
By Jack Graham // Theatre (London)
The story of Charles Ignatius Sancho is astonishing…
07 June 2018
An Evening of Combustion
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Bad Dog Theatre Company’s annual Combustion Festival runs through June 9th at their theatre on Bloor St. West. It’s a week of performances, workshops, drop-in classes and general partying that …
05 June 2018
Music Music Life Death Music: An Absurdical
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Canadian musical theatre is on the rise. I hate to give all the credit to Come From Away but, with the success of Come From Away, all of a sudden …
05 June 2018
Royal Drama: The Diana Tapes
By Theresa Perkins // Theatre (New York)
Attention on the British royals escalated to mania for the second time this year when, following the birth of the third royal baby, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the …
31 May 2018
Soulpepper’s Must-See Spring Season
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Walk into the Young Centre and buy a ticket, it doesn’t matter to what. Soulpepper Theatre has three productions running right now and, for the first time in memory (and …
30 May 2018
Seven Siblings’ Frozen
By Duncan Derry // Theatre (Toronto)
Trauma reverberates through a life in ways that are almost always unquantifiable, and it is a state that lends Bryony Lavery the title of her 1998 play, produced by Seven …
24 May 2018
Featured Production: Frozen
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Seven Siblings Theatre is coming off their strongest season yet with a staged reading, a festival of new work, and two mainstage productions including the Critics’ Pick Award-nominated Fringe run …
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