Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Factory Theatre hiring of Nina Lee Aquino and Nigel Shawn Williams shouldn’t mean an end to boycott over firing of Ken Gass.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:47PMHopes are high for Jeremy Irvine, the 22-year-old star of Great Expectations
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMMonday, September 10, 2012
Christopher Plummer presents Maggie Smith with the honour in a star-studded ceremony at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:41PMCirque du Soleil's Amaluna, a female take on Shakespears's The Tempest, plays Toronto until Nov. 4.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:23PMSunday, September 9, 2012
Critic Roger Ebert promoting newly issued softcover edition of his memoir, Life Itself.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:40PMFriday, September 7, 2012
Maggie Smith comes to Toronto for TIFF and to receive the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Legacy Award.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:08PMWhen Cirque du Soleil opened Amaluna in Montreal this past April, I cheered it wildly for uniting the usual Cirque materials around the script of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, infusin…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:22AMFriday, August 31, 2012
Randy Bachman of the Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive is still takin' care of business and loving it.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMTuesday, August 28, 2012
Second City's We've Totally (probably) Got This! is funny, but it hurts, like the best comedy
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00PMSunday, August 26, 2012
The most important presence at Rufus Wainwright and Jorn Weisbrodt’s wedding was someone who was most noticeable by her absence — Kate McGarrigle.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:29PMSaturday, August 25, 2012
The famous DeLorean time machine draws crowds at Fan Expo, as star Christopher Lloyd stops by for a Q&A.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMFriday, August 24, 2012
The Spanish singing legend is releasing new versions of his most famous songs
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:13AMThursday, August 23, 2012
After her duties on Second City's We've Totally (probably) Got This! end, Melody A. Johnson will tour her one-woman show Miss Caledonia in Ontario and the Maritimes.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMWednesday, August 22, 2012
Michel Marc Bouchard's Tom and the Coyote was supposed to open the Factory Theatre season in Toronto; instead it's been pulled over conflict with Ken Gass.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:06PMMichael Hughes' Mickey & Judy, Sharron Matthews’ Superstar: Gold 2012, Berend McKenzie’s NGGRFG and Nonnie Griffin’s Sister Annunciata’s Secret at Fringe
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMMonday, August 20, 2012
The music in A Synonym for Love is respected fully, by vocalists and orchestra alike, but the new spin on the material is wonderful, writes Star critic Richard Ouzounian.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:27PMFriday, August 17, 2012
Don McLean, the singer-songwriter behind 'American Pie,' 'Vincent' and 'And I Love You So,' plays The Ex on Aug. 24.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMThursday, August 16, 2012
Youth, charm, intelligence and talent were all in abundance before more than a few minutes had gone by in the 90-minute play at Withrow Park.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:41PMNew company Shakespeare in the Ruff, founded by Brendan McMurtry-Howlett, send up idea of actors wearing tights and ruffs.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Art, confession and nude self-flagellating all part of SummerWorks presentation by transsexual performance artist Nina Arsenault.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:32PMTuesday, August 14, 2012
Big musicals have been keeping the festival afloat for the past two seasons.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:37AMMonday, August 13, 2012
Hawksley Workman is on to something substantial with The God That Comes.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:44PMSaturday, August 11, 2012
Shaw Festival staging robs Helen’s Necklace of its intimacy
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00PMFriday, August 10, 2012
When Fan Expo Canada hits the Metro Convention Centre from Aug. 23 to 26, there will be thousands of eager followers of Doctor Who and Torchwood there to see John Barrowman, the omnisexual C…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:35AMThere seems to be a new rule developing at the Shaw Festival: put Jim Mezon and another terrific actor on stage in a killer scene and watch the sparks fly.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Director's heavy hand with anti-Soviet message, and overacting by most of the cast, spoil show depicting Molière’s struggles in his final years.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:08AMFamily spokesman Jason Lee says Hamlisch died Monday after a brief illness. Other details aren’t being released.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:02AMSummerWorks brings theatre, music, visual arts and more to Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMCanadian actor known for Growing Pains will play Jack Bailey in Queen for a Day at Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00AMFriday, August 3, 2012
All critics agree that the boxer’s Broadway debut in “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” is a singularly odd piece of theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:34PMAs a young actor on a gruelling schedule, Richard Ouzounian endured long nights of rushed rehearsals while fantasizing over a particular lucky pastry.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AM 
