Tuesday, August 22, 2017
The Rocky Horror Show also on festival's 2018 bill, with Donna Feore directing that and The Music Man.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:56PM[SHARE]Monday, August 21, 2017
Polar 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 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2017
The 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 05:23PM[SHARE]Friday, August 18, 2017
Molière 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[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2017
"As a kid growing up, you heard it everywhere," one theatregoer says about the music of Carole King.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2017
His plays are frequently produced, except in Toronto, but now he has a festival in his name in St. Catharines, Ontario.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 6, 2017
Productions driven by women among the more thought-provoking works at festival running along the Queen Street West corridor.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2017
How is this erratic, wet summer affecting Toronto theatre companies' outdoor productions?
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:54AM[SHARE]Monday, July 31, 2017
Everything feels spontaneous, lived, felt, and everyone gets a little moment to shine in Shaw Festival production.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 29, 2017
The production throws Shaw and its audience into the deep end of debates around representation, appropriation and privilege.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2017
There are potentially interesting but not groundbreaking themes in Canadian premiere of British Fringe hit.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Characters' 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 Theat…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2017
Canadian Stage production is a bit too high-concept and fuzzy in places.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Johnny Issaluk, Ujarneq Fleischer and Lisa Cromarty co-star in The Breathing Hole, which draws on Inuit knowledge.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2017
A 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 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Beloved play's capacity for critical comment has drained away and what's left is self-regarding sentimentality.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:57PM[SHARE]Monday, July 10, 2017
At the theatre with . . . Joan Jamieson and Shelley M. Hobbs, who say they love the festival's sense of 'discovery'.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Factory's 2017-18 season includes world premieres of Kat Sandler's BANG BANG, Jeff Ho's trace and After Wrestling.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 2, 2017
VideoCabaret's show tackles the Confederation period, from 1861 to the execution of Louis Riel in 1885.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
This complex whodunit, second in Kate Hennig's Tudor queens trilogy, a taut, twisty story of power, loyalty and betrayal.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:27PM[SHARE]Artistic director's production of Androcles and the Lion pushes actors, audiences out of their comfort zones.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 24, 2017
The Shaw Festival's show has room to grow, but gives five female actors strong opportunities to shine.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Play with music springs from the imagination of Niall McNeil, an actor with Down syndrome.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Broadway 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 04:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 4, 2017
The 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 04:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 3, 2017
This production makes a strong case for the continued relevance of this fascinatingly unstable play, Karen Fricker writes.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:35PM[SHARE]Friday, June 2, 2017
Vision of repression works in Stratford production, but does framing device?
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
The 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 02:43PM[SHARE]At the theatre with Tom McKeon, whose experiences helped shape skeptical character Bob in the hit Broadway musical.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:28AM[SHARE] 
