Incredibly acted and written in a way that is both engaging and unique, Obsidian Theatre Company and Tarragon Theatre showcase an honest, vulnerable, funny, painful and real look at relationships.   Relationships are hard. I know, what a revelation, right? But it is true and that work can make or break people. It can create […]

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, to deal with isolation and lack of live theatre, we started gathering some of our favourite people every Tuesday & Saturday night to read scripts over Zoom. We read all 38 Shakespeare plays in six months. Then we kept going. We decided to create mini-seasons featuring highlights from the canons of […]

Dissonant Species (written by Michel Gordon Spence and Heather Marie Annis) sings a story about trying to understand. Trying to understand music, trying to understand sound, trying to understand people. Like a jumbled up music sheet with various timings and key changes and sounds with no set patterns. It is a piece that drums an […]

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, to deal with isolation and lack of live theatre, we started gathering some of our favourite people every Tuesday & Saturday night to read scripts over Zoom. We read all 38 Shakespeare plays in six months. Then we kept going. We decided to create mini-seasons featuring highlights from the canons of […]

Critic Note: The performance reviewed was of the October 1st preview   Content Warning: This review will contain mentions of child sexual abuse. To view more detailed content warnings of Blackbird please check out the show page on Talk Is Free Theatre’s website.   Incredible performances and chemistry between Cyrus Lane (Ray) and Kirstyn Russelle […]

 

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, to deal with isolation and lack of live theatre, we started gathering some of our favourite people every Tuesday & Saturday night to read scripts over Zoom. We read all 38 Shakespeare plays in six months. Then we kept going. We decided to create mini-seasons featuring highlights from the canons of […]

A fairly straightforward thriller adapted from the 1967 film of the same name by Frederick Knott, Jeffrey Hatcher’s Wait Until Dark is a competent and enjoyable if not altogether memorable piece to round out the season.   A good genre companion to Murder on the Lake and contrast to the bright zaniness of Tons of […]

The performance I attended of The Shaw Festival’s Blues for an Alabama Sky was one of those nights at the theatre that makes theatre-going endlessly exciting but also somewhat hard to review. With presumably very little notice, understudy Kiera Sangster was in for the leading role of Angel Allen (usually played by the brilliant Virgilia […]