Friday, May 4, 2012
Musical is witty, unabashedly light and frothy take on the high-school mean-girl genre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:30AMThursday, May 3, 2012
Powerful Tarragon production revives 1987 Michel Tremblay drama that intertwines two versions of characters in a lower-middle-class Montreal home
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:47AMFriday, April 20, 2012
A pleasant bachelor in a pleasant backyard reenacts the conversion of St. Hubert with a white-gloved saleswoman. Under ‘R’ for Rom-com.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:15PMWednesday, March 28, 2012
In the wake of Kony 2012, a vital message about Africa’s stolen children finds a lacklustre champion
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:12PMSunday, March 18, 2012
Playwright has amassed material about a haunting event but its structure is missing
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:00PMThursday, February 23, 2012
Annabel Soutar’s three-hour epic chronicles one farmer’s stand against an agrichemical colossus
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:00PMSunday, February 19, 2012
Shary Boyle and Christine Fellows’s new collaboration is their first foray into theatre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00PMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Potted Potter makes great introduction to J.K. Rowling’s magical world
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00PMWednesday, February 8, 2012
With a merely adequate understudy in the lead role, this slice of barrio life is like West Side Story without the gangs
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:15PMFriday, January 27, 2012
Ravi and Asha Jain’s comedy about the mismatched aims of an Indo-Canadian family’s visit to the homeland, a kind of parent-child dual memoir, is wry and enlightening theatre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:30PMThursday, January 12, 2012
A poignant story of love, loss and loneliness, set against the backdrop of China rising, comes to life at the Royal Alex
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:23PMMonday, January 9, 2012
The theatre visionary brings his play to the Toronto stage
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00AMSunday, December 11, 2011
Parfumerie may have been written in the 1930s, but it resonates in our digital age
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:31PMParfumerie may have been written in the 1930s, but it resonates in our digital age
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:31PMThursday, December 8, 2011
The real star of this Ebony and Ivory tale is Canadian choreographer Sergio Trujillo, who lays down a medley of funky movement
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:33PMFriday, December 2, 2011
This Theatre Passe Muraille work, a story of passions both private and political, shows little passion itself
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:00PMThursday, November 17, 2011
The musical at the Toronto Centre for the Arts is cheerfully ghoulish, but no more substantial than a sitcom episode
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:04PMFriday, November 11, 2011
After the initial shock, though, you quickly forget about the colour-blind casting, and become caught up in Tomson Highway’s landmark play
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:30PMAfter the initial shock, though, you quickly forget about the colour-blind casting, and become caught up in Tomson Highway’s landmark play
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:30PMFriday, November 4, 2011
A revival of a 1994 play about the doomed Franklin expedition renews its black humour - but its AIDS-crisis undertones no longer ring true
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:00PMThursday, October 27, 2011
Yisrael Campbell’s chronicle of conversion is witty and revealing, but doesn’t really address the depth of his religious conviction
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:00PMFriday, October 7, 2011
It was the crowd-pleaser of Toronto Fringe Festival, and while it’s more stand-up than true theatre, James Gangl’s comic act of confession is still hilarious
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
Theatre Smash’s production of Marius von Mayenburg’s 2007 play asks some hard questions about identity and shallow physical qualities
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:20PMFriday, September 23, 2011
Actor Richard Donat gives a spellbinding portrayal of the legendary American playwright on the way down
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:27PMSunday, August 7, 2011
Hannah Moscovitch’s Little One is a psychological thriller that is brilliantly crafted
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00PMThursday, July 21, 2011
North American tour delivers a Broadway-sized show with a greatest-hits roster of skits
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:20PMThursday, July 7, 2011
The man-eating bear is not the only reason to see Dream in High Park’s first-ever staging of The Winter’s Tale
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:55PMSoulpepper take on Williams’s tale of self-delusion and heartache mines the comedy, eases off on the pathos
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:48PMSoulpepper take on Williams’s tale of self-delusion and heartache eases off on the pathos
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:48PMFriday, July 1, 2011
Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons rule the stage despite low turnout and airplane interruptions
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:01AMMonday, June 13, 2011
Khanjian pours scorching intensity into her role as anguished mother in reinterpretation of classic about obsessive love
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:23PM 
