Saturday, June 14, 2014
World premiere of magic tricks show by David Ben premieres at Luminato.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:26PMThursday, May 22, 2014
Judith Thompson plays an Ashley Smith-like inmate, her mother and a prison guard in play that she also wrote.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMWhat Judith Thompson has done is recreate the story through three women – Glory/Ashley, her adoptive mother, and a corrections officer named Gail.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:43AMThursday, May 15, 2014
Musical fails to weave its many clever little disparate moments into a cohesive whole.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:53AMSaturday, May 10, 2014
Purity of Ferruccio Furlanetto’s singing and acting make B-list opera worthwhile
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:38PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca is one of the great plays of the 20th century. David Storch’s production, however, falls short of doing it justice.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:42AMFriday, May 2, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
A God in Need of Help not only keys in on the clash of Catholicism and the new Protestantism but also adds the spice of old Gods versus the new Christianity.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:30AMFriday, March 21, 2014
New Amsterdam takes us back to July 27, 1656, and behind closed doors.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:23AMThursday, March 20, 2014
The Theatre Centre's new home kicks off with a compelling downer, performed by science journalist Alanna Mitchell from her book of the same name.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:16AMSaturday, March 8, 2014
Thursday, March 6, 2014
At the core of this play is a beautifully crafted love story that is not only intensely personal but also poignantly universal.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:19AMFriday, February 28, 2014
Director Ross Manson drains the colour from a gem of a play about the relationship between two women.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMFriday, July 27, 2012
Kenneth Welsh and Eric Peterson are currently starring and vying for laughs in a Soulpepper production of Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:21AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
The emotions expressed in Mr. Marmalade are a complete counterpoint to the innocent setting.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:40PMTuesday, July 17, 2012
Of all the well-known David Mamet plays, Speed-the-Plow seems to have had the fewest revivals.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:45AMFriday, July 13, 2012
Daniel MacIvor's The Best Brothers is comedy at its purest at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:00AMThursday, July 12, 2012
New play celebrates John Hirsch, one of the towering figures of Canadian theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:45PMMorris Panych's new musical based on the poems of Robert W. Service offers up Service with a smile.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:28AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
VideoCabaret retells the war on the Stratford stage in humorous, quick-fire action with richly grotesque costumes and props, always deliciously over the top.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 08:54PMFriday, July 6, 2012
We need a far more experienced and technically adroit cast to put us under the spell of this shaggy-beast story.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:05AMFriday, June 29, 2012
It’s been 30 years since the first Dream in High Park — performed on a bare patch of ground between two large trees in a natural, grassy amphitheatre — was mounted by Guy Sprung’s To…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:37PMSaturday, June 9, 2012
La Belle et La Bête, now at the St. Lawrence Centre’s Bluma Appel Theatre as part of the Luminato festival, is visually stunning, a magical blend of technology and stagecraft. But it’s …
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:43PMFriday, May 18, 2012
David Storey’s Home is a magical play that’s been revived far too infrequently since it made its debut in 1970.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:27AMThursday, May 17, 2012
It’s hard to care about troubled couple Todd and Kali in Bryony Lavery's Stockholm, at Tarragon Extra Space until June 3.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:23PMFriday, May 11, 2012
Veteran Canadian entertainer Luba Goy's one-woman show is not yet ready for prime time.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:26AMWednesday, May 9, 2012
Ross Lekites as Tony and Evy Ortiz as Maria are sweetly innocent in West Side Story, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts until June 3
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:00PMKathleen Turner is in her element as she wrestles with demons in this play about addiction at the Royal Alex.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:37PMSunday, May 6, 2012
Michel Tremblay’s The Real World?, now playing at Tarragon Theatre Mainspace, remains a brilliant evening of theatre
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:38PMWednesday, May 2, 2012
This one-woman show by Pamela Sinha is about the aftermath of a brutal rape shortly after a young woman moves into an apartment.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:04PMFriday, April 27, 2012
The story of the family that has foresworn materialism should be a blizzard of eccentricity but it isn’t. What saves it is the sweetness of the love story.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:44AM 
