Tuesday, May 30, 2017
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]Saturday, May 27, 2017
Elaborate production veils a sometimes-thin plot, with expert set design and a strong ensemble cast.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:51PM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2017
Production has potential to improve as actors find more nuance.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 25, 2017
Hit musical takes most prizes along with Shaw Festival's Master Harold . . . and the Boys.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2017
Actors do full justice to Veda Hille-Amiel Gladstone score but play ideas rather than creating relationships onstage.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Gender gets reconsidered in classic stories in a 2017 season with a focus on diversity: Wednesday Matinée.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 14, 2017
Audience must piece together fragmented scenes to learn dark truth about a woman's past.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:29PM[SHARE]Her husband Ian Brown's memoir about their severely disabled son spawned a play, now onstage in Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 13, 2017
This is the most stripped-back production I've seen on a Soulpepper stage, but the result places full focus on the cast as they deliver Ntozake Shange's words, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:06PM[SHARE]A look at how Graham Abbey of Stratford and Groundling fame ended up with Festival Players of Prince Edward County.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 4, 2017
Show has some delightful singing, dancing and acting but loses a lot of the magic of Baz Luhrmann's 1992 film.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:12PM[SHARE]Monday, May 1, 2017
Mark St. Germain play imagines meeting between C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud, only weeks before latter's death.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:26PM[SHARE]Friday, April 28, 2017
Production from 2015 season, onscreen at Cineplex theatres, for most part turns Shakespeare's wordiness into a virtue.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Mark Crawford's first play for young audiences grew out of observations of kids who "weren't locked into" the gender binary.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 22, 2017
At times effective, disturbing, and enlightening, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard's latest theatre piece is an evening of performance poems, raps and mini-lectures.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2017
Why Not Theatre has scrambled and reimagined Hamlet and the result challenges the audience's expectations and breathes fresh life into the characters.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 8, 2017
Torquil Campbell's "True Crime," an intense and artful one-man show, is playing at Streetcar Crowsnest until April 15.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 7, 2017
There are two competing threads in Anusree Roy's play, one a family comedy, one about mental illness.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Being open to feedback and change is part of the theatremaker's signature style.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 3, 2017
Celebrated Quebec auteur will stage Shakespeare's Coriolanus in 2018.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 2, 2017
Canadian Stage is presenting this well-travelled autobiographical show from Australia.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, March 31, 2017
Actors stage a play within this play by Guillermo Calderon, but it's not clear when we should believe and disbelieve.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Toronto police Inspector Chris Boddy " no theatre devotee " came away impressed by the realism of the harrowing play Butcher, now at the Panasonic.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 25, 2017
A smart, complex psychological drama comes to the Tarragon Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 23, 2017
Second City show doesn't ignore post-Trump world but also provides welcome distraction from it.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Nudity is featured in both Mrs. Henderson Presents and Sheets, in which nakedness is meant to seem normal.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 19, 2017
The play takes a seemingly plain idea and both fulfils and defies expectations, leaving audience members with something to think about.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:56PM[SHARE]We get closer to Ian Lake's Macbeth, Krystin Pellerin's Lady Macbeth and other deeply felt acting on movie screen.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 2017
Strong overall acting, visionary direction and beautiful design combine in remount of 2015 co-production.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Playwright Erin Shields goes beyond the surface in The Millennial Malcontent, based on The Provoked Wife.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM[SHARE] 
