#BreakingDownTheFlow
Lepage's Kanata is a play examining relations between whites and Indigenous people but was criticized because no Indigenous cast members were cast in it
'How is it that a troupe of French actors are going to portray Indigenous Americans? We're not in the age of blackface,' said sociologist Guy Sioui Durand
Just stop already. "Each joke is played with a knowing wink, with countless call-backs to episodes of yore. It's reminiscent of a breaking of the fourth wall, but done in a fashion so grand …
"We have been friends for years, our families have stayed with each other and I believed we were close," James White wrote to Marlowe Goring after his visit. "That is why I have tried to bel…
Come From Away's return to Toronto marks the latest success in a remarkable year for the show's creators, Irene Sankoff and David Hein
Robert Cushman: Will these crazy experimentalist directors stop at nothing?
Robert Cushman: The first act is tight, but the second, though still entertaining, feels as if the authors are making it up as they go along
Robert Cushman: The show's ending returns, abruptly, to its beginning, but nobody's perfect
Robert Cushman: In Middletown, which has only two acts, the memento mori is emblazoned from the start
Robert Cushman: The production suffers, for me at least, from comparison to Laszlo Marton's superb Soulpepper staging
Robert Cushman: A play that without any directorial forcing proves astonishingly prescient of the present moment
Lewis passed away Sunday morning of natural causes at age 91 in Las Vegas
The bear is, in all his charm and majesty and significance, a triumph for the author's ambition and imagination
The Shaw Festival's An Octoroon is the Canadian premiere of an off-Broadway sensation from 2014
Lewis passed away Sunday morning of natural causes at age 91 in Las Vegas
Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford " There has been, in the last 60 years or so, a renaissance of Renaissance drama. The plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors, long eclipse…
Summerworks Performance Festival runs until August 13
Robert Cushman: Euripides' play, by common consent his greatest, was also his last (or last but one). It premiered in old Athens in 406 BC, following the death of its aged, exiled author
Robert Cushman: Its story, though, runs out of steam, even at a playing length of just over an hour
The Virgin Trial is a sequel to The Last Wife, Hennig's play about Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth and final queen
Robert Cushman: But the play, by the author's own admission, makes no attempt to assess whether, as legend has it, Canadian identity was really forged at Vimy
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical begins with King at Carnegie Hall in 1971, all set to give the live premiere of the songs from her album Tapestry
Robert Cushman: Down in the Distillery District, the company known as VideoCabaret have been reviving and revising their strip-cartoon national epic
Robert Cushman: Who wants to go up against Come from Away? Well, somebody has to and some things have, from the estimable Passing Strange to the deplorable Matilda
Robert Cushman: Antoni Cimolino's production is the only one I've seen to turn the theory into practice; to make the screen scene the great moment in English comedy that the books say it is
Robert Cushman: Stratford has fruitfully twinned its production of The School for Scandal with Timon of Athens, casting mostly the same actors in another lampoon of society
Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone work so well together both because they each know each other and neither knows how to tone it down
Too often Broadway’s Spider-Man comes across as a Cirque du Soleil reject. No matter how airborne it seeks to be, it ends up painfully earthbound. Expensive pyrotechnics are no substit…
Cohl is positive, but cautious. Asked if they can make the investment back, he coughs up, “I sure hope so, but it’s showbiz. Who knows?”
Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol invites a sort of bean-counting, stock-taking and soul-searching this time of year, so we asked Canada's stage Scrooges to give us their opinions o…
Yes, Virginia, there is an opera called William Tell attached to the overture we love so well. And it is good enough to sustain interest in concert
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French geologist and paleontologist whose crucial scientific work was done before the Second World War. He was also a Jesuit priest
The Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio is almost literally a troupe of young singers waiting in the wings, appreciated in principle for their hard work in supporting roles but only occas…
Andy Kindler is a professional comic. Yes, it's a profession. Even if there's no stand-up comedy guild, no code of practice, no adjudication board
Mary Queen of Scots is a sovereign who has never lacked for theatrical attention. The James Plays are an ambitious attempt by a Scottish playwright and TV writer, Rona Munro, to even the odds
The acronym NSFW stands for 'not safe for work.' The play of which the acronym is the title has a further subtitle: Money, Sex and Photoshop
Jordan Tannahill was sweeping the grey-and-white checkered floor of Videofag " the arts venue he runs with William Ellis in Toronto's Kensington Market " when he won the Governor General's A…
Christopher J. Hanke was 18 years old and studying in London when he had what he calls his "aha!" moment
The plays are more successful at evoking a world than at making a point, but they still dazzle
The ballet's tragic ending leaves you feeling like your heart is about to explode
Welcome to the graveyard. You'll be amazed at how lively it is. Spoon River is adapted, by Albert Schultz and Mike Ross, from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Like most Catholics and most Victorians, Edward Elgar regarded death as a doorway rather than a terminus
'The historical novelist,' or so I once read, 'must necessarily turn history into romance, and romance will always lie with the deposed or threatened king'
Can this really be the first Opera Atelier staging of an opera in Italian by Handel?
About 400 people stood behind police barricades chanting "Shame on the Met!" and carrying signs saying "The Met glorifies terrorism" before the company's first performance of The Death of Kl…
It seems that hardly a show can open in Toronto that isn't a tribute to some troubadour or other
Not a night of bel canto. Verismo? Yes, especially after intermission. And Puccini throughout, which of course has everything to do with the indestructability of Madama Butterfly
'There's drama, there's humour, there's Hitler " it just goes everywhere'
Rebel Without a Cosmos doesn't match its predecessor, but it has its share of giggle-worthy gags
Despite its awful title, Julie Madly Deeply is a delightful show
