Thursday, March 19, 2015
From making sole Florentine to get dates in college to his food show Just Eats, TV chef says he’s been really fortunate
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:00AMThree people fights over two jobs in this taut drama at Coal Mine Theatre — it’s a blood sport with professional death at the end.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Busy Pulitzer, Oscar and Tony-winning playwright brings his latest, A Woman Is a Secret, to Toronto's Theatre Centre March 19.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:19PMFiona Reid is stellar in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which opened at the Panasonic Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMTuesday, March 17, 2015
Author Yvette Nolan and director Nina Lee Aquino decided to find their ideal cast for Factory Theatre/Native Earth production, regardless of race.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:26PMMonday, March 16, 2015
Theatre Rhea production succeeds with fine cast in telling the story of a woman haunted by memories of her loving father.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMSunday, March 15, 2015
Playwright Christopher Durang on the real-life ‘what-if’ that inspired Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, opening at Panasonic Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMSaturday, March 14, 2015
Calling Hamilton "a hip-hop musical about one of America's Founding Fathers" only explains part of what makes this show so special.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:10PMFriday, March 13, 2015
The veteran actress, who lived in Toronto during the Second World War, returns to the director’s chair with Miss Julie, starring Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMThursday, March 12, 2015
Daniel MacIvor’s latest play sets out to indict those he feels control our city but it comes across more like an overdose of bile.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMTuesday, March 10, 2015
Second City’s latest revue, How to Kill a Comedian, take outrageous chances with bountiful results. Nights in the theatre don’t get funnier than this.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:31PMThe prolific playwright intends his last play as writer-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre to be a dark and dirty one. “But there’s jokes,” he promises. “Of course there’s jokes.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:08PMFriday, March 6, 2015
‘Heart of Robin Hood’ band Parsonsfield breaks out with March 8 show at the Drake.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:11PMThursday, March 5, 2015
Simon Stephens’ drama deals with British housewife in mid-life who finds her existence turned upside down in a visit to her dying father.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:51PMSinger will be inducted into Canadian Music Hall of Fame at March 15 Juno Awards.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:00AMWednesday, March 4, 2015
Tasteless riff on the cult TV show Faulty Towers may bill itself as “dining experience” but entirely lacks the flavour of the original.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:34PMEntertainment in Sin City include Cirque shows, comedy from Brad Garrett, Siegfried and Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat, and the Mob Museum.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:16PMThe Judas Kiss with Rupert Everett as Oscar Wilde is also part of 2014/15 playbill.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Fitting the Canadian Opera Company's Semele into the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Gilman opera house required technical ingenuity.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:34PMThursday, February 26, 2015
MasterChef Canada judge Alvin Leung says his new Toronto restaurant, to open in April, is a way to say thank you to the country where he was raised.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00PMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Grimsby actress is deceased in Spoon River, alive and singing in American Pie — A Songbook Investigation and between both worlds in The Dybbuk.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:02PMMonday, February 23, 2015
Despite a few casting misfires, this production from Acting Up Stage and Obsidian Theatre is worth seeing, with impeccable performances from the three leads.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:54PMSunday, February 22, 2015
Ian Lake and Trish Lindström as Guy and Girl elevate this musical with a bittersweet love story at its core, aided by a rock solid cast.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00PMThursday, February 19, 2015
Playing lead in Harper Regan for Canadian Stage her first theatre role since The Passion of Dracula in Vancouver in 1996.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:43PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Once stage musical based on 2006 film is a ‘real and moving and honest’ story, director John Tiffany says.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:59PMWith Colm Feore's performance and Antoni Cimolino's production, one of Shakespeare's most difficult plays delivered with complexity and conviction.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:11PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Daren A. Herbert, Cara Ricketts play Queenie and Burrs in Michael John LaChiusa’s musical, roles played by white actors on Broadway.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:34PMMonday, February 16, 2015
King Lear, starring Colm Feore, is among the first slot of live productions to be immortalized in film for the Stratford Festival HD Series.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00AMFriday, February 13, 2015
At the age of 89, Lansbury is spearheading a comic invasion that makes you realize how funny Noel Coward’s classic comedy remains.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:57AMSeason includes Ibsen's An Enemy of the People and world premieres from Gord Rand, Andrew Kushnir, Anna Chatterton, Kat Sandler, Fabrizio Fillippo
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMShe's making a lot of movies, including The Last Five Years and The Voices, opening Feb. 13, but Kendrick describes herself as a 'work freak.'
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AM 
