The Rocky Horror Show also on festival's 2018 bill, with Donna Feore directing that and The Music Man.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:56PMPolar bear is the tragic hero of Colleen Murphy’s ambitious, moving play looking at history and future of Arctic through Indigenous eyes.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMThe Madwoman of Chaillot was written during the last years of the Second World War by the Frenchman Jean Giraudoux and presented here in a new translation by David Edney.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:23PMMolière classic makes all the sense in the world in 2017, thanks to tweaks, sure-handed director and a stacked cast.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:11PM“As a kid growing up, you heard it everywhere,” one theatregoer says about the music of Carole King.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00PMHis plays are frequently produced, except in Toronto, but now he has a festival in his name in St. Catharines, Ontario.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:56PMProductions driven by women among the more thought-provoking works at festival running along the Queen Street West corridor.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:26PMHow is this erratic, wet summer affecting Toronto theatre companies' outdoor productions?
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:54AMEverything feels spontaneous, lived, felt, and everyone gets a little moment to shine in Shaw Festival production.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:27PMThe production throws Shaw and its audience into the deep end of debates around representation, appropriation and privilege.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:13PMThere are potentially interesting but not groundbreaking themes in Canadian premiere of British Fringe hit.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:08PMCharacters’ sense of crisis and despair, as evoked by Andrew Garfield and others, carries us past any concerns about current relevance of the play, being performed at London’s National T…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMCanadian Stage production is a bit too high-concept and fuzzy in places.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:56AMJohnny Issaluk, Ujarneq Fleischer and Lisa Cromarty co-star in The Breathing Hole, which draws on Inuit knowledge.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMA woman playing King Lear should not be an oddity, says Diane D'Aquila, who's doing so for Shakespeare in High Park.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMBeloved play's capacity for critical comment has drained away and what’s left is self-regarding sentimentality.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:57PMAt the theatre with . . . Joan Jamieson and Shelley M. Hobbs, who say they love the festival's sense of 'discovery'.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMFactory's 2017-18 season includes world premieres of Kat Sandler’s BANG BANG, Jeff Ho’s trace and After Wrestling.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMVideoCabaret's show tackles the Confederation period, from 1861 to the execution of Louis Riel in 1885.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:03PMThis complex whodunit, second in Kate Hennig’s Tudor queens trilogy, a taut, twisty story of power, loyalty and betrayal.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:27PMArtistic director's production of Androcles and the Lion pushes actors, audiences out of their comfort zones.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMThe Shaw Festival's show has room to grow, but gives five female actors strong opportunities to shine.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:20PMPlay with music springs from the imagination of Niall McNeil, an actor with Down syndrome.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMBroadway pundits and insiders agree it's between Come From Away and Dear Evan Hansen for the Best Musical Tony June 11.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:54PMThe lavish play connects the classic story from the 18th century to our contemporary era with a stinging commentary on the damaging effects of a culture of superficiality and fake news.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:13PMThis production makes a strong case for the continued relevance of this fascinatingly unstable play, Karen Fricker writes.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:35PMVision of repression works in Stratford production, but does framing device?
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:27PMParticipants are between 17 and 29 or 56 and 73.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:57PMFestival is most ambitious yet with 160 shows.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:00PMThe centre of the production is musical theatre star Brent Carver, playing Feste, the fool who serves both the households in the play.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:43PMAt the theatre with Tom McKeon, whose experiences helped shape skeptical character Bob in the hit Broadway musical.
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