23 October 2019
The COC’s Fall 2019 Season
By Amy Strizic // Theatre (Toronto)
The Canadian Opera Company has set out a delicious 2019/20 season. I have been excited to see Turandot since last fall when the upcoming season was released. Knowing little about …
16 October 2019
Blood Pact’s Dock Mother God Society
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
Set in the British Columbia town of Kelowna against the backdrop of the worst wildfire season in Canadian history, Dock Mother God Society, Blood Pact Theatre’s latest production, is the …
14 October 2019
At Crows: Ghost Quartet & The Flick
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
A captivating pairing of co-productions has taken over the east end Streetcar Crowsnest venue this fall with a world-renowned but perfectly grounded everyman epic in the mainspace and an understated …
09 October 2019
Kat Sandler Debuts Yaga at the Tarragon
By Amy Strizic // Theatre (Toronto)
Tarragon Theatre has set up a wonderfully witchy opening to its autumn season. Leaves are turning, the air is cooling, and the fall season of theatre has begun. Onstage from …
09 October 2019
Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country
By Jack Graham // Theatre (Toronto)
Set in Duluth, Minnesota in winter 1934, Girl from the North Country is not a typical musical. Understated and thoughtful, this Depression-era drama does not conform to what people might …
05 October 2019
Knives in Hens at the Coal Mine
By Alisha Maclean // Theatre (Toronto)
The Coal Mine’s presentation of Knives in Hens is a beautiful rendition of the mid-nineties play written by David Harrower — Director Leora Morris has skillfully and lovingly brought the Scottish work …
03 October 2019
Soulpepper’s Streetcar and the Art of Good HR
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
There are a few key ways to judge a new artistic director taking over an established company. Some people who aren’t technically wrong but are awfully cynical might look to …
28 September 2019
Shaw, ’19: The Glass Menagerie
By Dom Harvey // Theatre
In Tennessee Williams’ extensive canon, The Glass Menagerie stands out as the original “memory play”: the work is framed as the hazy recollections of the main character, whose reliability as a …
21 September 2019
Life in a Box is Back!
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Both the best and worst thing about theatre, and indie theatre especially, is its ephemerality. Productions close so fast that you never have the time you need to tell every …
20 September 2019
The Band’s Visit on Tour
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
David Yazbek & Itamar Moses’ slinky musical adaptation of the 2007 Israeli film The Band’s Visit is one of those artistic oddities that wins incredible acclaim and most people still …
19 September 2019
Soulpepper’s Seductive Betrayal
By Amy Strizic // Theatre (Toronto)
The 1978 play Betrayal comes alive through Soulpepper’s production. The cast and crew are immaculate, and the set is designed in an incredibly effective way. Time slides through the cracks …
14 September 2019
Shaw, ’19: Rope
By Dom Harvey // Theatre
If staging the perfect murder is hard enough, staging a good murder mystery has its own challenges. With all the mischievousness of its main characters, Patrick Hamilton’s Rope dodges those …
13 September 2019
Stratford, ’19: Henry VIII & Mother’s Daughter
By Dom Harvey // Theatre
Shakespeare earned the right to phone it in. It was clear that even his less daring and promising works would be feted beyond their merits – anything bearing his name …
12 September 2019
Stratford, ’19: Private Lives
By Dom Harvey // Theatre
If reality TV taught us anything, it’s that there’s little easier to lampoon than the lives of the rich and famous; long before and through the television age, Noel Coward …
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