A perfect blend of comedy and horror, cicadas leaves you laughing, guessing, tensing and thinking at every turn. The real estate market is tough and not just now but in 2032 when our story in cicadas takes place. Tough enough that our protagonist couple Janie (Monica Dottor) and Trim (Ryan Hollyman) end up picking […]
Anita La Selva has directed some of the best theatre I’ve ever seen- bold, creative, demanding work that left a lasting impact. That fact is the complicating, heartbreaking, contextualizing background to 12 Litres 8800 Steps, her autobiographical solo show currently on stage in the Factory mainspace. The play tells the devastating personal story that, presumably […]
Writer/director Andrew Kushnir’s latest self-referential verbatim project presents his signature style at its complex, emotional best. Docutheatre has a tendency to fall into reporterly coldness as the research-heavy genre often tells stories involving investigations and the dialogue is spoken exactly as originally uttered by the real life characters rather than translated through a playwright’s […]
Jen Silverman’s wild and wonderful take on Brontë-style gothic drama is currently onstage in a riotous new production at the Theatre Centre Incubator. Directed with a bold voice and a light touch by Bryn Kennedy, The Moors is a triumph that dashes expectations at every turn. Silverman’s text is anarchic and inventive while faithfully […]
The Second City Toronto’s latest revue continues the recent trend away from the political and personal and towards more clear cut comedy. As is often the case, I wanted more of a throughline from the established theme of magic (a successful bit featuring Jesus proves the power of recurrence but I always want more). My […]
The musical version of the seminal Jim Steinman/Meat Loaf album Bat Out Of Hell is a marvel of ridiculousness. The book (Steinman), direction (Jay Scheib), and design (Jon Bausor & Meentje Nielsen with tour updates to the set by Ed Pierce) are some of the worst in the history of the form but, dammnit, the […]
If you missed Some Like It Hot, there’s another Prohibition-era musical currently playing at Theatre Passe Muraille—and it might be even hotter. Long before Canada’s Come From Away achieved international acclaim, The Drowsy Chaperone (book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, score by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison) began as a 1999 Toronto Fringe hit, […]
It Could Still Happen is a company that grounds itself in such values as exploration, embodiment, and taking one’s time during a creative process. And so it’s not a surprise that The Herald still has a work-in-progress vibe as it begins with writer and director Jill Connell emerging, carrying their own podium amidst a fog […]