06 February 2012
Life Is a Cabaret, Old Chum
By Brian Balduzzi // Theatre
Going into Woodland Theatre Company’s latest production, I was delighted to get the opportunity to see Cabaret; though a fan of Liza Minelli and Joel Grey, Alan Cummings, and Michael …
05 February 2012
SpeakEasy’s Artful Turn of Red
By Brian Balduzzi // Theatre
Ever since I had the pleasure of seeing their impressive production of Next Fall last September, I’ve been consistently surprised and excited by SpeakEasy Stage Company’s 2011-2012 season. Their most recent production of …
01 February 2012
Bowing Down to the God of Carnage
By Brian Balduzzi // Theatre
Sometimes you see those shows where everything clicks from the script to the acting to the production elements. Everything works as an integrated whole to create a visceral experience. My …
29 January 2012
Kicking off Soulpepper ’12 with the Kims
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Soulpepper’s 12-play 2012 season officially began last week with the January 19th opening of Kim’s Convenience. The heartfelt, hilarious and supremely Torontonian play is an essentially unchanged remount of the …
28 January 2012
Wandaleria
By James Melo // Theatre
Argos Productions‘ second excursion in Boston theater, Wandaleria, written by David Valdes Greenwood and directed by Brett Marks, was an exceptional presentation of a wonderfully written, funny play. The script itself …
21 January 2012
What Good is Sitting Alone In Your Room?
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret is a fundamentally flawed piece of theatre; it’s absurdly constructed, tonally conflicted and full of disjointed and ill-conceived numbers. Then Adam Brazier got hold of it. The …
19 January 2012
Good Points in Bad Times
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Walking into Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is always an entirely new experience. One of the more versatile spaces Toronto has to offer, the Buddies stage played host to two …
17 January 2012
A Troubled Trip to Copenhagen
By Brian Balduzzi // Theatre
“Why did I come to Copenhagen?” one of the characters asks, late into the second act of Michael Frayn’s play Copenhagen. I asked myself the same question after seeing Flat …
15 January 2012
Brandeis’ Comedy of Errors
By Brian Balduzzi // Theatre
As I mentioned in my last review, November was full of Shakespeare. My second show was at Brandeis University, featuring an original adaption of Comedy of Errors by Bill Barclay, …
12 January 2012
The 2011 My Theatre Award Nominees
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Our annual My Entertainment World Award Season begins today. We’ll start with the nominees for our second annual My Theatre Awards; the fifth ever My TV and second My Cinema …
11 January 2012
The Cheshire Cat in Blunderland
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Red Sandcastle Theatre’s holiday pantomime was a silly, boring and painfully unfunny affair full of too-long and uninventive musical numbers, tacky and unfair Rob Ford jokes and truly dreadful writing …
10 January 2012
Occupy Rome: Full Contact’s Titus
By Brian Balduzzi // Theatre
I never turn down a Shakespeare play. In fact, a while ago I had a weekend full of Shakespeare. Back in November, I was ecstatic that a new company emerged …
10 January 2012
At the Next Stage Festival
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
The Next Stage Festival is the fascinating bridge between a show’s Fringe Festival run and its life beyond the circuit. It’s an inspired idea and a chance for some truly …
07 January 2012
Diary of a Black Mask
By Borah Coburn // Theatre
I wasn’t in The American Repertory Theatre’s (A.R.T.) acclaimed Sleep No More. And I haven’t even seen the version in New York. But if you saw the version in Boston, …
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