Friday, March 10, 2023
M’Carthy has gone from one- or two-person shows to the Stratford Festival to a Canadian stage doubleheader — and he’s ready for much more.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:17AMWednesday, March 8, 2023
Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes wrestled with serving both South Asian audiences familiar with the poem and people who wouldn’t even know how to pronounce it.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMThursday, March 2, 2023
Gorgeous production at Young People’s Theatre set in the days before the moon landing is about facing your fears head on.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:56PMFriday, February 17, 2023
In an English-language classroom in Iran, personalities emerge, relationships form, secrets are revealed.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:35PMPlay weaves together scenes featuring an interracial couple modelled on playwrights Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton with fanciful vignettes riffing on issues about race.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:48AMFriday, February 10, 2023
This play about the pressures on women to reproduce is difficult and discomfiting, and evidence Coal Mine’s commitment to bold texts in bold productions will continue.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:46PMThursday, February 2, 2023
The story about how two competing weather forecasts affected the D-Day invasion in the Second World War builds tension into the unscrolling of weather maps.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:25PMThe stage veterans play a husband and wife in Andrew Bovell’s story of family relationships in its Canadian debut.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMSaturday, January 28, 2023
Camellia Koo’s set is visually striking — tall diagonal wooden slats create a frame over the stage — and Leigh Ann Vardy’s lighting helps shift location and mood in sometimes natural…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:51PMThursday, January 26, 2023
“Some Like It Hot” on Broadway does a spectacular job of it. “Funny Girl” not so much, despite the star presence of Lea Michele.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMThursday, January 12, 2023
Interactive video experience offers deep dives into the Bard’s works, allowing the festival to engage with people across the country and beyond.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:10PMTuesday, January 10, 2023
This month Crow’s Theatre is producing the world premiere stage version of “Fifteen Dogs,” adapted and directed by Marie Farsi and featuring a cast of six.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMSaturday, December 17, 2022
The show’s simple, hooky premise — a song cycle in different pop genres retelling the Biblical story of Joseph — is an opportunity for one spectacular musical number after another
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:46PMMonday, December 12, 2022
New Soulpepper and TO Live production is updated with topical references while maintaining the dramatic situation and structure that are key to the play’s success.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:09PMFriday, December 2, 2022
Now that his company’s holiday pantos are coming to an end, Petty will take one final bow as Captain Hook in “Peter’s Final Flight.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMThursday, December 1, 2022
Gordon won a Dora Award for “Room” and starred in “The Doctor’s Dilemma,” with more to come in 2023. She’s tired, but it’s a “champagne problem.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMMonday, November 28, 2022
Lolita Chakrabarti’s 2012 play is an ambitious work of activist theatre history served up in an entertaining package of 19th-century backstage drama.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:30PMFriday, November 18, 2022
The actors impressively deliver the extreme naturalism of the performance style, but the play leaves us with little hope.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:04PMMcGregor’s ballet based on the ‘MaddAddam’ book trilogy has its world premiere in Toronto Nov. 23 and Atwood’s looking forward to being surprised.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMMonday, November 14, 2022
The play’s plotting is not always strong, but its cast, led by Andrew Broderick, digs beautifully into its language and songs.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:31PMTuesday, November 8, 2022
Latest in Musical Stage Company’s ‘UnCovered’ concert series puts a new spin on the songs of the Swedish supergroup Nov. 8 to 10.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMFriday, November 4, 2022
Cavernous theatre and raised stage can put emotional and psychological distance between actors and audience, but it’s worth going for Robert Persichini’s performance alone.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:12PMFriday, October 28, 2022
This sequel to Marie Beath Badian’s “Prairie Nurse” shows how the lives of that play’s heroines diverged and shaped the experiences of their Filipino-Canadian offspring.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:24PMMonday, October 10, 2022
Ahmed Moneka marks a professional milestone by playing a major role at a Toronto theatre — one in which he brings his life experience to bear.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMSunday, October 2, 2022
The waves never peak, nor does the action in the intimate three-header ‘The Shark is Broken,’ now struggling to fill the Royal Alexandra Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:30PMSunday, September 25, 2022
Canadian Stage boldly launches its 2022-23 season with a precise performance of a troubling play by Québécois provocateur Olivier Choinière
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:51PMTuesday, September 20, 2022
The riff-on-‘Hamlet’ play by Canadian novelist and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald collapses under the weight of all it tries to achieve.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMMonday, September 12, 2022
Jani Lauzon’s and Kaitlyn Riordan’s play shows Shakespeare may not necessarily always represent the cold, dead hand of colonialism.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:09PMMonday, August 29, 2022
The festival has provided the resources and time to do the script justice and Tawiah M’Carthy leads a world-class company in a staging as moving as it is thought-provoking.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:39PMSunday, August 28, 2022
Thoroughly up-to-date script and a production right in director Antoni Cimolino’s wheelhouse add up to a delight, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:45PMThursday, August 25, 2022
Stratford and other theatres are turning frequently to consultants in the wake of the #MeToo movement and the global racial reckoning sparked by the murder of George Floyd.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AM 
