Friday, 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 09:44AMThursday, April 12, 2012
Marina Nemat's story natural for stage, but Theatre Passe Muraille production falls short
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:09PMSunday, April 1, 2012
I Love You Because is a paper-thin off-Broadway musical now playing at the Toronto Centre for the Arts.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:31PMFriday, March 30, 2012
This extraordinarily imaginative and challenging little play uses Céline Dion as a point of departure.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:06AMEven the most ardent Tennessee Williams fan will admit that the Great Man wrote the occasional clunker. And Vieux Carré is generally reckoned to be one of them.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:12AMThursday, March 8, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Nancy Palk, Joseph Ziegler, Evan Buliung and Gregory Prest star in Soulpepper's Long Day's Journey Into Night, directed by Diana Leblanc.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:49PMThursday, February 23, 2012
Seeds at the Young Centre stars Eric Peterson as Percy Schmeiser, the Saskatchewan farmer who battle Monsanto.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:04PMTuesday, February 21, 2012
Given the international success of Lee MacDougall’s High Life, it’s surprising that the new Soulpepper production is the first revival here since the original burst on the scene at World…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:54PMMonday, February 20, 2012
Tom Rooney, Laura Condlin and Sofia Tomic shine in Play, one of several Samuel Beckett works in Queen of Puddings’ Beckett: Feck It!
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:18PMTuesday, January 31, 2012
The main joy of Visiting Mr. Green, now at the St. Lawrence Centre’s Jane Mallett Theatre, is watching an oh-so-savvy theatre veteran ply his trade.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:08PMFriday, January 27, 2012
Ravi Jain puts his mother Asha in play at Tarragon Extra Space to brilliant effect.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMWednesday, January 18, 2012
The Golden Dragon, by Germany playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig, is a fragmented play about a fragmented yet interconnected world.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:49PMWednesday, December 21, 2011
Quidam, the new Cirque du Soleil extravaganza, is a love affair for the audience.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:07PMSunday, December 18, 2011
The Evergreen Brick Works is a magical spot for The Story about the Nativity.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:54PMWednesday, November 23, 2011
Play at Buddies in Bad Times tells the story of Sufi poet Mansur al-Hallaj.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:39PMSaturday, November 12, 2011
Playwright Michael Spence’s expedition into the unknown is so murky in places that you begin to long for some kind of logic, for someone to switch on the light of cold reason.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 05:29PMFriday, November 11, 2011
The Life and Times of Mackenzie King dishes up a cartoon-epic, eclectic caricature filled history of two decades in Canadian history
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:24AMSunday, November 6, 2011
She sweeps audience along in intensity of her storytelling in Part 3 of trilogy.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 08:29PMSunday, October 30, 2011
Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra failed at becoming concert pianists, but taking their act to theatre in 2 Pianos, 4 Hands hits all the high notes.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:11PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
One-man show Circumcise Me! Traces the voyage of Yisrael Campbell from nice Catholic boy to orthodox Jew
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:52AMWednesday, October 19, 2011
A cute idea doesn't bear fruit in Tarragon Theatre's silent play, Name in Vain.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:26PMThe political landscape in The Normal Heart is still compelling, but 30 years later the tears are of pity, more than anger.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:24AMTuesday, October 4, 2011
A review of The Ugly One, a fun, well-written piece.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:46PMMonday, October 3, 2011
Three short stories of Ryunosuke Akutagawa depict the tales of outcast and ostracized people in A Fool’s Life at the Theatre Centre
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:47AMTwo plays, Shine Your Eye and Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God, offer poignant windows on Africa at Bluma Appel Theatre
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:34AMFriday, September 30, 2011
Two-play package about two worlds’ interaction bound to be hit.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:26AMThursday, September 29, 2011
Move Over Mrs. Markham, a bawdy farce at Stage West about marital infidelity, is a very mixed affair indeed.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:38PMThursday, September 22, 2011
Play set in a spa town at the very dawn of electricity in 1880, Tarragon’s Vibrator Play is a little flat, even a little dull.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:25AMThursday, September 15, 2011
The Tale of a Town has energy and spirit but ultimately it just fizzles
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:07PMSunday, September 4, 2011
Soulpepper's staging of Arthur Miller gem suffers from slow pace, despite wonderful performance by Michael Hanrahan.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:11PM 
