At the theatre with Tom McKeon, whose experiences helped shape skeptical character Bob in the hit Broadway musical.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:28AMElaborate production veils a sometimes-thin plot, with expert set design and a strong ensemble cast.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:51PMProduction has potential to improve as actors find more nuance.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:06PMThis is a theatre show in the guise of a music gig.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:00PMHit musical takes most prizes along with Shaw Festival's Master Harold . . . and the Boys.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:30AMActors do full justice to Veda Hille-Amiel Gladstone score but play ideas rather than creating relationships onstage.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:00PMGender gets reconsidered in classic stories in a 2017 season with a focus on diversity: Wednesday Matinée.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMAudience must piece together fragmented scenes to learn dark truth about a woman’s past.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:29PMHer husband Ian Brown's memoir about their severely disabled son spawned a play, now onstage in Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:00AMThis 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 06:06PMA look at how Graham Abbey of Stratford and Groundling fame ended up with Festival Players of Prince Edward County.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMShow has some delightful singing, dancing and acting but loses a lot of the magic of Baz Luhrmann's 1992 film.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:12PMMark St. Germain play imagines meeting between C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud, only weeks before latter’s death.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:26PMProduction from 2015 season, onscreen at Cineplex theatres, for most part turns Shakespeare’s wordiness into a virtue.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMMark 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 09:00AMAt 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 11:38AMWhy 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 12:27PMTorquil Campbell’s “True Crime,” an intense and artful one-man show, is playing at Streetcar Crowsnest until April 15.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:00PMThere are two competing threads in Anusree Roy's play, one a family comedy, one about mental illness.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:26PMBeing open to feedback and change is part of the theatremaker's signature style.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMCelebrated Quebec auteur will stage Shakespeare’s Coriolanus in 2018.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:44AMCanadian Stage is presenting this well-travelled autobiographical show from Australia.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMActors stage a play within this play by Guillermo Calderon, but it’s not clear when we should believe and disbelieve.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:27PMToronto 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 08:00AMA smart, complex psychological drama comes to the Tarragon Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:01PMSecond City show doesn't ignore post-Trump world but also provides welcome distraction from it.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:09PMNudity is featured in both Mrs. Henderson Presents and Sheets, in which nakedness is meant to seem normal.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:40PMThe play takes a seemingly plain idea and both fulfils and defies expectations, leaving audience members with something to think about.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:56PMWe get closer to Ian Lake's Macbeth, Krystin Pellerin's Lady Macbeth and other deeply felt acting on movie screen.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:35PMStrong overall acting, visionary direction and beautiful design combine in remount of 2015 co-production.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:50PMPlaywright Erin Shields goes beyond the surface in The Millennial Malcontent, based on The Provoked Wife.
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