“Besbouss: Autopsy of a Revolt” speaks to both present and political history by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Production based on 2010’s Arab Spring appreciates the sacrifices happening around the world to attain what many Canadians already have.

Jaber Ramezani’s ‘Swim Team’ keeps its head above water but the story could use expanding by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Didn’t score tickets for 'Hamilton' in Toronto? Mirvish has good and bad news for you by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

The good news is shows aren’t truly sold out until performance day. The bad is those resellers out there might be offering fakes.

Let’s Run Away a charming mix of artistic sensibility and lack of restraint by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

This is Daniel MacIvor’s seventh solo collaboration with director Daniel Brooks over the span of three decades.

Mandy Patinkin explains his outlook through the songs he’ll sing in Toronto by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Productive, magnetic star — in town later this month for solo shows — lets you peek behind the curtain.

‘Pass Over’ is ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the 21st century by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Play at Buddies in Bad Times is sobering exploration of two men who await death — not as an existential concept like in Beckett’s play, but as an immediate and visceral possibility.

Why theatre should get into the Halloween spirit by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

At this time of year, it’s not surprising that plays like “Yaga” and “Ghost Quartet” have earned such positive response. The mystery is why more theatres don’t embrace the spooky…

The Particulars is like witnessing one man’s midnight fever dream by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

A Black woman as Hamlet makes history at Stratford by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Veteran Colm Feore will do double duty at 2020’s festival in “Richard III” and “The Miser” while Toronto’s up-and-comer Amaka Umeh will take on the title role in “Hamlet.”

The Election revisits 2015 and crosses all sorts of lines along the way by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

New play is a look at how our political affiliations (or our political oppositions) form and challenge our identities, values and beliefs.

Ghost Quartet’s shape-shifting, foot-stomping dreamscape another win for Crow’s Theatre by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Dave Malloy’s raucous song cycle plays in stark contrast to the solitude of The Flick, the theatre’s other standout autumn offering.

‘The Flick’ taps into the melancholy of millennials and the magic of moviegoing by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

The buzz surrounding “The Flick” meant that Toronto audiences were ready to sit in silence, having already been waiting patiently and quietly for years for the play to finally arrive.

Second City’s retro revue If I Could #Throwback Time let audience off the hook by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Look back at 1980s is fun, if a bit ragged, and has lots to say about today.

‘Hilot Means Healer’ and its tale of war and recovery aren’t perfectly whole yet by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Second World War story of a man reeling from battle and encountering traditional shamanic teachings in the Philippines.

Broken Tailboneturns theatre into a Latinx dance hall by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

An entertaining shakeup of Toronto’s tamer theatre scene, not only asking audiences to listen to Aguirre’s stories from the dance floor, but channel its energy into our bodies as well.

At Carmen Aguirre’s ‘Broken Tailbone,’ the audience ‘can’t hide in the dark’ by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Part theatre, part history lecture and part salsa dance lesson, the show will challenge the audience to move their bodies as their brains take in Aguirre’s words.

Soulpepper makes A Streetcar Named Desire, one of the most famous plays in English theatre, feel new by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Louise Pitre and Jayne Lewis are impressive in Piaf/Dietrich by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Falling for language’s power — and danger — smartly captured in Knives in Hens by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

The sentiments behind David Harrower’s 1995 play about a feudal couple mostly hold up, aided by strong performances at Toronto’s Coal Mine Theatre.

Broken Branches’ stories of sibling abuse need more work by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Life in a Box uses minimal staging to allow its stoner heroes to bend time and space by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

The Stranger 2.0 Above & Below emphasizes the joys of childhood by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

The music of play The Band’s Visit warrants an encore by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

You’ll wish to hear even more of the winning songs of this show at the Ed Mirvish Theatre.

Stars embrace playing Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf, ‘the kind of women everybody’s trying to be right now’ by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Friends, artistic giants and maybe lovers, the 20th-century twosome get a more personal examination in the North American version of this stage hit.

Soulpepper’s Betrayal is short on romance in its love triangle by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

It’s an entertaining look at three rich, intelligent people toying with each other in Harold Pinter’s masterpiece but, as an exploration of desire and relationships, it’s stiff and col…

How to find cheap theatre tickets in Toronto by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Discount sellers, pay-what-you-can, even ushering at the theatre in exchange for freebies: Carly Maga looks at options if you’re on a budget.

Shaw Festival’s Man and Superman takes leaps but doesn’t fly by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

The cast ably delivers Shaw’s text in marathon production, including Don Juan in Hell, but the production is missing a visual language to match its verbal depths, writes Carly Maga.

In The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare in the Ruff zeroes in on the corrosive power of unchecked men by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Instead of idly waiting for her family to reassemble, Hermione has taken a much more active role in articulating director Sarah Kitz’s theme of patriarchal corruption, writes Carly Maga.

In the Stratford Festival’s The Crucible, there is empathy for the young women of Salem by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Jonathan Goad’s production begins without assuming the girls have fabricated the illnesses that spur speculations of witchcraft for foolish, selfish reasons, writes Carly Maga.

For Toronto’s Lee family, actors Richard and Eponine and director Nina Lee Aquino, work is play by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

After a busy summer for the whole family, father and daughter will appear in Shakespeare in the Ruff’s The Winter’s Tale together, writes Carly Maga.

The Stratford Festival puts a modern sheen on 1928 newspaper comedy The Front Page. by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

What really makes this Front Page feel fresh is its social, gender, racial and character complications — things that a mainstream audience in 2019 is much more equipped and eager to invest…