The Stratford Festival doesn’t usually do remounts but, for Antoni Cimolino’s last season, he gets to do whatever he wants and apparently that means bringing back a greatest hits of sorts when it comes to musical programming. Alongside a revisiting of perennial favourite Guys & Dolls (last done in 2017 with the same director and […]
Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival. Afeni (B) Afeni is a one woman show in the truest sense – it knows where the focus is and how to keep it there. Revolutionary activist and Black Panther […]
Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival. Finding Jamie (A) Well structured and perfectly paced, this simply delivered solo show tells a compelling story that seamlessly weaves together two generations of coming-of-age romance. Zac Williams is a charismatic […]
Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival. Neuro-DIVE! (A-) Every performance of this solo show starring a talking dopamine receptor is listed as a relaxed performance. That means the lights are slightly up, audience members can come and […]
Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival. A Comedy Show at the End of the World (A) You can always count on Jon Blair and he’s back again with one of his best shows ever. Playing a former […]
Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival. My Own Private Shakespeare (A-) I loved this unassuming solo show that seamlessly weaves Shakespearean text into a personal story that wields its unadorned realism strongly enough […]
Prolific Toronto musical theatre writer Andrew Seok has a signature style- all heart, total sincerity, soaring ballads with big ensemble harmonies. Your mileage may vary. The unrelenting prettiness of his work is a pro for me, though it can get repetitive, so it’s nice to see him stretch a bit with his latest piece. […]
Next to Normal is a polarizing show that beautifully humanizes and trickily simplifies mental illness. Tom Kitt’s rock score demands big vocals and complex harmonies with extremely careful dynamic calibration as the characters lash out and collapse inward. These thematic musical extremeties lead to some really distracting sound balance issues in the intimate Aki Studio […]