11 January 2020
EPIC Players’ Starcatcher
By Jen Taphorn // Theatre (New York)
Little did I know what a truly magical and inspiring experience I was in for coming to HERE Arts Center on a cold winter night. This was my first time …
24 December 2019
The SpongeBob SquarePants Musical in Toronto
By Jackie Houghton // Theatre (Toronto)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Musical, presented by TO Live at Meridian Hall, was a breakout Broadway success in 2017/2018 garnering 12 Tony Award nominations and is the first in what TO …
21 December 2019
Shiny & Bright: A Holiday of Musicals in Toronto
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
It’s Christmastime, which means that many people are either celebrating beloved family traditions or searching for some moderately pleasant activity the whole family can agree on. The solution Toronto’s commercial …
15 December 2019
Three Ships’ Christmas Carol at Campbell House
By Amy Strizic // Theatre (Toronto)
I think I have a new Christmas tradition. I’ve always known the story of A Christmas Carol, but it’s never been a big part of my life. It’s the one …
07 December 2019
White Mills’ Christmas Carol at Spadina Museum
By Dom Harvey // Theatre (Toronto)
It’s the holiday season which means we get to relive the quintessential secular Christmas story – apparently the only one, again and again. Avid Carolers are spoilt for choice – …
14 November 2019
Obsidian’s Pass Over and why we see theatre
By Thea Fitz-James // Theatre (Toronto)
We, the audience, are waiting for the play to start. Kitch (Mazin Elsadig), on stage, is waiting for his friend Moses (Kaleb Alexander) to wake up. Moses is waiting for …
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 …
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