20 September 2017
Revelations In a Little Room
By Theresa Perkins // Theatre (New York)
Hospital waiting rooms are emotional places. On a daily basis, they are the scenes of both great grief and great joy as humans celebrate new life and renewed chances at …
19 September 2017
Theatre by Committee’s Omnium Gatherum
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
According to old rules of etiquette, it’s impolite to discuss sex, politics, or religion at a dinner party. Theatre by Committee’s Omnium Gatherum tackles all three with gusto, throwing in …
18 September 2017
Miss at The Assembly
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
I rewrote the title of this article about four times. I worry that the one I settled on is misleading- it sounds like an old timey newspaper headline declaring that …
15 September 2017
Celebration at the New Diorama Theatre
By Oliver Simmonds // Theatre (London)
I chose Emergency Chorus’ Celebration to break my review-fast because it exemplifies what I’ve missed and what I’m missing. I mean, God, what the hell have I sidestepped in Central …
15 September 2017
Dance: made in / fait au Canada Festival
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
The 2017 Dance: made in / fait au Canada Festival was a four day biennial repertory celebration of Canadian dance, presenting a cross-section of contemporary dance makers from across the …
14 September 2017
#ARTBIRTH Lady Gaga
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
Athena Reich’s #ARTBIRTH was so unexpected, such a witty and subversive spectacle. Reich, as her pregnant Lady Gaga alter ego, drops a line early in the show warning us that …
13 September 2017
The Second City Toronto’s Party People
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Party Today (Panic Tomorrow) is an apt name for The Second City Toronto’s silliest and least political mainstage show in a few cycles. There are moments when the bold political …
12 September 2017
The National Theatre’s Follies
By Jordan Morrissey // Theatre (London)
Follies is, in one way, exactly what you might expect from a 1971 work by the noted musical dramatist Stephen Sondheim, in that it’s a true spectacle, with lyrics that …
11 September 2017
ASMRtist
By Lisa McKeown // Theatre (Toronto)
Sarah Marchand and Matt Jones have collaborated to write and create a theatre ASMR experience: the show incorporates elements of ASMR (in both performance and social media) while telling the …
11 September 2017
Stratford ’17: See
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
I was really hard on the Stratford productions I didn’t like this year but it was actually a pretty strong season and the things that were good were Really good. …
11 September 2017
Shaw ’17: See
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
This was not my favourite season at The Shaw Festival. They had fewer bad productions than Stratford but they didn’t have as many great ones either. The best production of …
11 September 2017
Stratford ’17: So-So
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
In a really pretty strong Stratford season, these mostly good productions fell to the middle of the pack because other things were better, not because they were bad at all. …
11 September 2017
Shaw ’17: So-So
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
The thing to understand about the so-so list for The Shaw Festival this year is that they’re all pretty good productions; they mostly didn’t make the cut to be must-sees …
11 September 2017
Stratford ’17: Skip
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
I promise everything gets better from here. Please keep in mind that I refuse to pull punches so you can believe me when I tell you you really should see …
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