14 November 2019
MacIvor & Brooks: Let’s Run Away
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
There is no doubt that when Daniel MacIvor enters the stage, he does so with seasoned confidence. He appears a bit agitated while dressing the stage, a picture here, a …
14 November 2019
Almighty Voice and His Wife at Soulpepper
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
Daniel David Moses’ Almighty Voice and His Wife provides a contemporary retelling of the events leading to Cree Warrior Almighty Voice’s untimely death, and his ill fated love affair with …
13 June 2019
Eifman Ballet’s Tchaikovsky: PRO et CONTRA
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
Celebrated Russian choreographer Boris Eifman brings to life the story of composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), and it is a tale of beauty and tragedy. Eifman, inspired by the composer’s …
29 March 2019
Pite & Young’s Revisor
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
Choreographer Crystal Pite’s work is always deeply thrilling—her ability to bring an audience into a transformed alternate reality is her trademark. In Revisor, her second collaboration with writer Jonathon Young, …
21 March 2019
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
Set in 1986 at an elite Ghanaian girls boarding school, Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play is steeped in Queen Bee pettiness and teenage politics. An …
14 March 2019
Nominee Interview Series: Aria Evans
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
Before we announce the winners of the 2018 MyEntWorld Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Dancer/Choreographer Aria Evans’ versatility as a multi-modal collaborator is on full …
07 March 2019
Ashbee & Culley’s Pour
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
A periodic cry, almost a scream, penetrated the performance space as the audience arrived and settled into their seats. It was unsettling, but mostly ignored. Choreographer Daina Ashbee’s Pour– presented by TO …
18 October 2018
Esie Mensah’s Shades
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
Toronto-based choreographer and dancer Esie Mensah’s Shades premiered at the Factory Theatre with a short run, September 27 to 20, 2018. Shades is an exploration of the discrimination between lighter-skinned …
24 September 2018
Jani Lauzon’s I Call Myself Princess
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
A decade of research went into the making of the well crafted I Call Myself Princess, written by Jani Lauzon, and a joint Paper Canoe Projects and Cahoots Theatre Production, …
20 September 2018
Cue6’s Dry Land
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
Dry Land is a coming of age tale that digs uncomfortably into both the tenderness and cruelty of North American teenage girlhood. Swim teammates Amy (Veronica Hortiguela) and Ester (Mattie …
01 July 2018
Luminato 2018: Malpaso Dance Theatre
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
Sitting in the audience of a dance performance, feeling fully enveloped by the movement, is one of the most delicious experiences I can think of. The Cuban based Malpaso Dance …
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 …
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
Finding Wolastoq Voice
By Kymberley Feltham // Theatre (Toronto)
Last Thursday I had the privilege of attending Finding Wolastoq Voice, a collaboration between playwright and composer Natalie Sappier -Samaqani Cocahq of Tobique First Nation and dancer/choreographer Aria Evans (Mi’kmaq/Black/British). …
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