
07 April 2019
Nominee Interview Series: Leighton Alexander Williams
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
Before we announce the winners of the 2018 MyEntWorld Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. The multi-talented Leighton Alexander Williams also wrote and directed BDB Productions’ …

29 October 2018
The Toronto Irish Players’ Dancing at Lughnasa
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
Exploring the distance between what appears to be true and what actually is, Dancing at Lughnasa is a bittersweet memory play about five sisters in depression-era Donegal. Set in 1936, when Michael …

18 October 2018
Obsidian’s Darktown presents Judas Noir
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
Adapted and directed by Leighton Alexander Williams, BDB Productions’ Judas Noir…

14 July 2018
Toronto Fringe ’18: Part XXIII
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Generally Hospital (A) Proving that humour can be found even in the most serious of places, Generally Hospital is …

12 July 2018
Toronto Fringe ’18: Part XXI
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews How to be FEARLESS! (with Roxy Roberts) (A) Fed up with being harassed, stalked, and threatened, Roxy Roberts (Playwright/Performer …

08 July 2018
Toronto Fringe ’18: Part VI
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Robert. (A-) Produced by Lark & Whimsy Collective, playwright Briana Brown’s tragicomedy about family, identity, and loss depicts the …

02 May 2018
“Music Theatre”: Picnic in the Cemetery
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Music
Billed as “music theatre”, Njo Kong Kie’s first production in his residency with Canadian Stage is more of a concert with multimedia aspects than it is a piece of theatre. …

17 April 2018
The 2017 Critics’ Pick Award Winners: Theatre
By Kelly Bedard, Chelsea Dinsmore, Lisa McKeown, Duncan Derry, Mary-Margaret Scrimger, Kymberley Feltham and Jace Hijazi // Theatre
On April 16th, 350 artists, arts administrators, arts critics, and arts everything else gathered at The Great Hall in Toronto to celebrate another year of creativity, ambition, talent, and hard …

05 April 2018
Nominee Interview Series: Jordana Daumec
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
Before we announce the winners of the 2017 MyEntWorld Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. National Ballet of Canada First Soloist Jordana Daumec is a strong …

29 March 2018
Nominee Interview Series: Piotr Stanczyk
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
Before we announce the winners of the 2017 MyEntWorld Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Principal Dancer Piotr Stancyzk’s strong features have made him a popular …

28 March 2018
Nominee Interview Series: David Mackett
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
Before we announce the winners of the 2017 MyEntWorld Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series…

25 March 2018
Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s Les Misérables
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
Victor Hugo’s nineteenth century classic about Jean Valjean, a man who steals a loaf of bread to feed his starving family, spends nineteen years in prison, and begins a new …

18 March 2018
Nominee Interview Series: Sonia Rodriguez
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
Before we announce the winners of the 2017 MyEntWorld Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. In 28 years with the National Ballet of Canada, Principal Dancer …

26 February 2018
Daniel Pagett’s Homewrecker
By Chelsea Dinsmore // Theatre (Toronto)
Homewrecker, a new two-hander play by Daniel Pagett, raises questions about who is to blame for the end of a marriage; Is it the husband who cheated, the other woman …