The new comedy, a co-production among three Canadian theatre companies, mostly cracks instead of crackles, despite strong performances.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00AMIan Shaw plays his father, Robert Shaw, who died three years after starring as maniacal shark hunter Quint in the blockbuster thriller.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMJac Yarrow will star in the title role, with West End and Broadway actor Linzi Hateley as the narrator.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMThe awards show marked the first in-person Dora ceremony since 2019. Check out the full list of winners here.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:29PMKazmi stars in the Crow’s Theatre production of the Chekhovian classic as Astrov, a role his father played 15 years ago.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMThe new production, which played London’s West End, is slated to start a two-month run in December at the Princess of Wales Theatre
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMErin Shield’s ‘Queen Goneril,’ set seven years before ‘King Lear,’ is playing in repertory with the Bard’s bleak tragedy at Soulpepper
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:36PM‘Rent’ will be directed by Broadway veteran Thom Allison, a source close to the production told the Star.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMThe two-hour show weaves together music, comedy and improv into a story that follows six characters and their relationship with guitar music
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:21AMWill King’s macabre play, about a broke student squatting in an abandoned house, has a winning script packed with dark humour.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:43PMShe grew up as a Filipina Muslim with a Moro father and a Christian mother. Now in her mid-30s, Rasul reflects on her childhood and family
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:53PMAs Flo, Flo, Merchant traverses decades to tell a story about immigration, assimilation and family ties.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:46PMAmin Shirazi’s powerful work, winner of the Fringe’s New Play Prize, is grounded by a sharp directorial vision and a riveting central performance
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:28PMCovering everything from nationalism, to geopolitics, to German recycling the comedian pushes the envelop and then some
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:32PMBrad Gira’s 85-minute dark comedy takes risks in form and structure that pay off in this slick production
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:17PMFatuma Adar’s semi-autobiographical musical about a Somali refugee family in Toronto is receiving a not-to-be-missed world premiere at the High Park Amphitheatre
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:43AMThough lacking the playful humour of the novel and the propulsive drive of the Oscar-winning movie, the play with music still resonates.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:07AMBritta Johnson’s musical draws on her own life story as a young woman coming to terms with her father’s sudden death.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:32PMIn “New Monuments,” one of the headlining productions at this year’s Luminato Festival Toronto, over 40 artists from 10 dance companies join forces to “re-centre and re-evaluate the …
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