Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. This is playwright Nick Green’s second year in a row with season-stealing plays in both our Outstanding New Work and Outstanding Production categories. After last year’s triumphant Casey & Diana, Nick did it again with Dinner […]
The ultimate test of any great theatre script lies in its second production. Though unfortunately sporting the same director as the original 2023 Stratford run and its 2024 Soulpepper transfer and thus perhaps not as thought through from the drawing board as I may have liked, playwright Nick Green’s glorious Casey & Diana is currently […]
Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. One of our most-nominated productions of the year was Silk Bath Collective’s beautiful and personal Woking Phoenix, produced at Theatre Passe Muraille. We spoke with Silk Bath’s founding trio Aaron Jan, Bessie Cheng, and Gloria Mok […]
Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Outstanding Performance in a Musical nominee Taylor Long has quickly become one of the most recognizable faces in Toronto’s thriving indie musical theatre scene. He’s nominated this year for his role as Marvin in Bowtie Productions’ […]
Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. In Doctor Bird Productions’ concert staging of Jekyll & Hyde, Outstanding Performance in a Musical nominee Emma Bergin stole our hearts with her complex and impeccably sung performance as Lucy. We caught up with her to […]
There aren’t a lot of companies left like Shakespeare Bash’d in the Toronto theatre scene. They’re indie but they’re experts- a valued production category largely washed away by the pandemic and just starting to be rebuilt by newcomers fresh from theatre school and vets slowly re-emerging after a long hiatus. In this unsteady landscape, Shakespeare […]
Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. One of our favourite productions of the 2024 Toronto Fringe Festival, Desperate Measures featured a funny and fresh script co-created by Rachel Moore & Catherine Teichman. We spoke with the Outstanding New Work-nominated playwrights to hear […]
Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. I saw 40 plays at the 2024 Toronto Fringe Festival and my very favourite was a deeply strange clown two-hander about Albertan rats. Creative, heartfelt, and executed brilliantly, Rat Academy is a perfect example of […]