Stephen Fry's account of the Trojan War is typically gripping, but Karen Fricker wishes for more personal commentary on the ancient mythology he knows so well.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:48AM[SHARE]"He's taken his love of these myths and translated it and helped me understand why they're amazing," marvels our critic's companion for part 2 of her Mythos diary.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:58AM[SHARE]Unlike some of his ancient Greek source material, Stephen Fry really knows how to spin a yarn, writes Karen Fricker in part 1 of her Mythos trilogy diary.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:46PM[SHARE]Donna Feore's production brings top-notch musical theatre talent to the plate.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:26PM[SHARE]Gender and queer desire take spotlight in this adventurous spin on Shakespeare's classic mistaken-identity story.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:47PM[SHARE]Two acclaimed productions kicking off Toronto's Luminato Festival, RIOT and Swan Lake/Loch na hEala, are brash representations of modern-day Ireland's break from tradition.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM[SHARE]The racism of 1935 is still happening today and young theatregoers need to talk about it, says Nigel Shawn Williams, directing for the Stratford Festival.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:37PM[SHARE]Just one night after a bomb threat cancelled season opener The Tempest, Donna Feore's staging of this beloved 1957 musical captivates the audience, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:51PM[SHARE]Soulpepper Theatre production demonstrates that the lines of truth and fiction, goodness and evil, can never be drawn definitively, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:07PM[SHARE]The actors in How He Lied to Her Husband don't go full-tilt at the farce while acting styles vary in The Man of Destiny, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:22PM[SHARE]Veteran performer Kimberley Rampersad tries a Shaw Festival feat: onstage in one show, directing another.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:03PM[SHARE]Fiona Byrne and Martin Happer play the developing intimacy between their characters effectively, but the dials don't go high enough on the hijinks around them, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:45PM[SHARE]Audience buy-in is required to make the design and performance come together in adaptation of C.S. Lewis novel, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:32PM[SHARE]Kaitlyn Riordan stands up impressively to a major acting challenge, playing Pierre and Margaret Trudeau plus a journalist in revival of landmark 1980 show, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:39PM[SHARE]Philippe Ducros' play is full of intense material, which this Arcstage production amps up several notches, but sometimes it becomes overwhelming, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:31PM[SHARE]Judith Thompson wrote 'juicy scenes' for her characters in After the Blackout, in which their disabilities are 'just a by the way'.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:18PM[SHARE]Thalia Gonzalez Kane's play tells the story of a group of 15-year-old girls who start a sex club.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:17PM[SHARE]Early years theatre, a European movement to create stage productions for audiences as young as 2 weeks old, comes to Toronto with WeeFestival, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM[SHARE]40 Days and 40 Nights is clearly personal and important to its mid-career, married creators, but shades of Orientalism and mandatory, intimate audience participation makes it uncomfortable a…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM[SHARE]The characters are all generous and pretty harmless, and they're trying to find their way through the experience of difference while frequently falling on their faces, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:28PM[SHARE]Annual Harbourfront event returns this weekend, with new creations flowing out of new social bonds forged among the gathered artists.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:30PM[SHARE]Harold Green Jewish Theatre production tells a familiar newcomer-in-a-closed-world story, set in a women's ritual bath in Jerusalem, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:21PM[SHARE]Evan Placey's Girls Like That and Christine Quintana's Selfie have their roots in real-life stories that involve sexual consent.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:31PM[SHARE]Actors have standout moments in Canadian Stage production, but audience is given too much information, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:20PM[SHARE]Performers in show opening Tuesday in Toronto discuss the rewards and challenges of playing the lead in Fun Home.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:44AM[SHARE]Play emerged out of Dauda's recovery process as an alcoholic, but it's her look at history and culture where the most interesting discoveries lie, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:36PM[SHARE]The play's inability to put a finger on what goes wrong in its English school setting seems more evasive than intriguing, writes Karen Fricker
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:30PM[SHARE]Launched in 2016, PlayME podcasts of contemporary Canadian works have since had over 600,000 downloads in 90 countries.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:00PM[SHARE]Soheil Parsa's second staging of the work asks all the big questions.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00PM[SHARE]A new pared-down adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic takes Louise Pitre back to her breakthrough role.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM[SHARE]Set in 1920s Ottawa, Hannah Moscovitch's play adds to an important conversation about gender inequity and female sexuality, writes Karen Fricker.
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