22 March 2021
Critics’ Pick Award Winner: Tess Benger
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Eclipse Theatre’s limited run of Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George at Toronto’s Jam Factory last March was one of the last pieces of theatre we got to see …
05 October 2017
Sweeney with a Side of Pie
By Chris Behmke // Theatre (New York)
Tooting Arts Club’s production of Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre is the perfect thing to see this fall: part dark theatrical masterpiece, part haunted house. It’s the most creatively staged …
15 March 2017
Nominee Interview Series: Hugh Ritchie
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Before we announce the winners of the 2016 MyTheatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Hugh Ritchie as Cinderella’s Prince might have been the most perfect piece of …
01 March 2017
Nominee Interview Series: Dan Chameroy
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Before we announce the winners of the 2016 MyTheatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Dan Chameroy is a very big deal to me. He’s a big deal …
23 September 2016
Stratford’s 2016 Musicals
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Little Night Music All I knew about A Little Night Music going in was “Send in the Clowns”, arguably the crown jewel of Sondheim’s canon. It would have been best …
30 August 2016
Shaw’s 2016 Dramas
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
“Master Harold”… and the Boys This South African-set one-act by Athol Fugard takes a long time to get going but, once it does, it’s a gut punch. The idea is …
21 September 2015
Side by Side by Sondheim at the Jack Studio Theatre
By Adam Mcdonnell // Theatre (London)
Three singers, two pianists, and a whole lot of Sondheim—a thoroughly enjoyable evening by the AC Group for the avid or even casual fan of the great lyricist/composer, though this …
25 February 2015
Into the Woods Off-Broadway: After “Ever After”
By Theresa Perkins // Theatre (New York)
“Into the woods you go again, you have every now and then.” If you have never been Into the Woods, now is the time. Between Hollywood’s adaptation of this beloved …
23 October 2014
A Half-Hearted Smile for A Little Night Music
By Brian Balduzzi // Theatre (Boston)
The summer night may smile three times, but it might have smiled a fourth time on The Arlington Friends of the Drama’s 429th production A Little Night Music, music and …
03 October 2014
A Haunting Thriller with Safety Clippers
By Brian Balduzzi // Theatre (Boston)
The Lyric Stage Company does Sondheim well. Director Spiro Veloudos speaks Sondheim’s language as if it were his natural tongue, and he does a good job of translating to the …
01 August 2014
Murderers Do It Better: StageWorks’ Assassins
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
StageWorks Toronto is an incredibly ambitious company, especially when you consider that they’re really a community theatre organization (mixing new theatre grads with part-time performers, I’m pretty sure all un-paid). …
30 June 2014
Keeping Starry Company
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Theatre 20 occupies a very specific and somewhat strange space in Toronto theatre. They produce work very rarely but, when they do, it’s event theatre- a big musical with a …
06 June 2014
Magical Moments in the Woods
By Brian Balduzzi // Theatre (Boston)
Into the Woods may be one of my favorite Sondheim musicals, if not one of my favorite musicals. I have seen and participated in countless productions of this show, so …
03 April 2014
Three Stars Roll Along
By Brian Balduzzi // Theatre (Boston)
Characters in theatre almost always know more about themselves than audience members; the characters have lived in a fictional world before the play’s action. However, it’s a rare treat when …
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