11 September 2019
Stratford, ’19: The Neverending Story
By Dom Harvey // Theatre
The safest compliment for art is that it knows who it’s for. Stratford’s roster in a given year mostly consists of sober, supposedly thoughtful pieces aimed at some cross-section of …
09 September 2019
Out of Town Report: Vancouver Fringe, Part II
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
I was so excited to find myself in Vancouver during the Fringe Festival this fall (it’s crazy that there are still Fringe Festivals happening once it’s officially “fall”). Having covered …
06 September 2019
Stratford, 19: The Musicals
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
I remain firm in my assertion that Canada’s major artistic directors need to hire musical theatre consultants to help them pick what to produce because their knowledge base and taste …
03 September 2019
2019 at the Shaw Festival
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
After I saw Brigadoon, the Shaw Festival’s magical staging of a reimagined classic musical, I right away sat down to write about the experience. At least for me, the night …
31 August 2019
Stratford, ’19: The Front Page
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Michael Healey’s new adaptation of the much-adapted 1928 Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur newspaper farce starts with boredom. It starts with a bunch of sloppy newsmen and a single newly …
02 August 2019
Shaw, 2019: Brigadoon
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
This show hit me straight in the heart. It’s been so long since I’ve been able to say that about a Shaw musical and I’m grinning ear to ear to …
13 July 2019
Waitress *sigh* as a Musical
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Some stories take a few tries to find their perfect medium. Les Miserables, for example, is a meandering bore of a novel (hot take? Whatever, I don’t want to hear …
17 June 2019
On Tour to TO: The Lion King
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
If you ever get the chance to see The Lion King on Broadway, you have to take it. Stop me if you’ve heard this lecture before but I honestly believe …
23 May 2019
Ending Game of Thrones
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
Well, this is it. The series is done. I started writing these articles in 2016, right before season six started. It seems like such a long time ago, three years …
14 May 2019
Game of Thrones: “The Bells”
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
Honestly, I don’t know what I’m supposed to tell you about this week’s episode. I had to watch it again immediately after it was over. There’s so much to process, …
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 …
07 May 2019
Game of Thrones: “The Last of the Starks”
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
With two episodes left, it’s very clear to everyone involved – the producers, the audience, the actors and the set designers — that we need to pump the gas on …
23 April 2019
Game of Thrones: A Night in the Seven Kingdoms
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
It’s the night before the army of the dead descends on Winterfell. Since we’ve got a lot of characters and issues to resolve before our 83 minutes of bloodshed next …
17 April 2019
Game of Thrones: Winterfell and Mirrors
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
I’ve been thinking about mirrors a lot, recently. As symbols, mirrors are often interpreted as portals, doorways, access points to realms beyond or just different spaces. They’re also revelatory, providing …
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