When the Court House Theatre closed in 2017 and the Shaw Festival downgraded to just three formal venues, the easy assumption was that the festival would accordingly shrink. On the contrary, the expansion of programming in the Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre has kept the average mainstage number around 10 or 11 every summer while current […]
Click Here to follow along on our Ontario Theatre Tour as we explore the communities and companies outside of the city that we’ve never encountered before. One of the great discoveries so far on our Ontario Theatre Tour has been the Foster Festival. We caught the company at the Mandeville Theatre at Ridley College, […]
Click Here to follow along on our Ontario Theatre Tour as we explore the communities and companies outside of the city that we’ve never encountered before. One of the great treats on the Ontario Theatre Tour thus far has been visiting the Blyth Festival. Not only is their outdoor venue one of the most beautiful […]
For many years, the SummerWorks Festival was one of the two pillars of Toronto summer theatre. In July, the Fringe offers up two weeks of scrappy indie shows, their blind lottery system resulting in a wild range of quality and style. Then, in August: SummerWorks, a much more heavily curated festival that upped the polish […]
This year’s Shaw Festival lunchtime one-act, a swift Shavian delight called Village Wooing, is a successful participant in a favourite gimmick of today’s theatre, and a seeming particular favourite of the current festival leadership with both Game of Love and Chance and last season’s Everybody also taking part. Though an on-stage mechanism for selection isn’t […]
Our schedule is crazy during Toronto Fringe. We never have time to make it home between shows, which means we’re constantly trying to grab something fast and affordable on the go (I was going to say “halfway nutritious” too but I’m about to recommend a doughnut place so I figured I’d better not). Here’s […]
Lately we’ve been hitting the road to feature Ontario theatre companies we’ve never visited before. As we go along, we’ll be updating this page with new content from across the province, reviewing shows and restaurants, reporting on the theatre-going experience outside of the city and the area’s usual arts hubs. Click the links below […]
Drayton Entertainment’s strong but imperfect production of Aaron Sorkin’s original theatrical hit A Few Good Men is up next in our Ontario Theatre Tour. Presented at the Hamilton Family Theatre in Cambridge, the production offers the opportunity for theatre-goers outside of Ontario’s usual hubs to see some big names in a comfortable local theatre for […]