18 May 2019
Beautiful Man at the Factory Theatre
By Lisa McKeown // Theatre (Toronto)
Initially staged at SummerWorks in 2015, Erin Shields’ Beautiful Man features Jennifer, Sophie, and Pam (Ashley Bottling, Mayko Nguyen, and Sophía Rodríguez), who perch on stools facing the audience. They …
17 May 2019
The Shakespeare Series: Macbeth w/ Marcel Stewart
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
With the help of some of the best and brightest Shakespeare fans in the world, we’re diving deep into 38 plays in 35 episodes (Henrys IV & VI only get one episode a piece; …
17 May 2019
Bouchard’s Lilies at Buddies
By Lorenzo Pagnotta // Theatre (Toronto)
Michel Marc Bouchard’s classic play Lilies (Les Feluettes) was made into one of the most beautiful Canadian films in the 90s, and more recently an opera (2016, Opéra de Montréal) …
16 May 2019
OLD STOCK: A Refugee Love Story
By Amy Strizic // Theatre (Toronto)
What caught my attention for Tarragon Theatre’s performance of OLD STOCK: A Refugee Love Story was Ben Caplan. I read that he did the music for the show, and immediately …
14 May 2019
Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic
By Adam Mcdonnell // Theatre (London)
Wendell Pierce gives an astonishing performance in this enthralling revival of the Arthur Miller classic. With a fantastic supporting cast, Marianne Elliot and Miranda Cromwell’s latest joint venture is an …
12 May 2019
The COC’s Otello
By Amy Strizic // Theatre (Toronto)
The Canadian Opera Company’s production of Otello is passionate, bleak, dramatic, and nearly everything one could want from an opera. Based on Shakespeare’s tempestuous tragedy, it is far from a …
08 May 2019
Musical Stage Co’s Next to Normal
By Mark Kreder // Theatre (Toronto)
Looking at the programme before the start of The Musical Stage Co’s production of Brian Yorkie & Tom Kitt’s domestic rock drama Next To Normal, it’s hard to miss the design …
06 May 2019
Hand to God at the Coal Mine
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Hand to God is a really fucking weird play. Excuse the language but there’s really no other way to fully get the point across. This is some weird shit. Playwright …
03 May 2019
Timelessness and Hopefulness Appeal in Puccini’s La Bohème
By Lorenzo Pagnotta // Theatre (Toronto)
Several cast members made their mainstage Canadian Opera Company…
03 May 2019
Out is Back In
By Lorenzo Pagnotta // Theatre (Toronto)
In the play OUT, first produced at the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival, writer-performer Greg Campbell takes us on a personal walk in 1977 Montreal, channelling his autobiography through Glen as …
25 April 2019
As You Like It Bash’d
By Steve Fisher // Theatre (Toronto)
Theatre company Shakespeare BASH’d “is an actor initiative that… produces Shakespeare’s plays in social settings”, “with simple staging, clear and sympathetic language, and an emphasis on the text and actors …
25 April 2019
Traverse Theatre Company’s Mouthpiece by Kieran Hurley
By Laura Carlyon // Theatre (London)
Kieran Hurley creates a masterpiece with this fresh narrative of social inequality and artistic license. He writes an exceptional account of how story telling is sensitive and emotionally captivating particularly …
23 April 2019
The Ramones Non-Musical: Four Chords and a Gun
By Steve Fisher // Theatre (Toronto)
In all of the subway posters and other promotional material around the city, the producers of Four Chords and a Gun have placed this description front and centre: “A Play …
23 April 2019
Featured Production: Blood + Soil
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Are you worried about the state of the world? Good. So is director/playwright Rouvan Silogix. We caught up with him to get the inside track on his latest work with …
Connect
-
