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Thursday, August 6, 2015

A quarter-century of SummerWorks by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Performance festival celebrates 25 years in Toronto with some changes, including a new focus on dance and local curators.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:50PM
Monday, August 3, 2015
Monday, July 20, 2015

For Cirque Alfonse, juggling axes is family fun by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Antoine Carabinier Lépine, sister Julie, father Alain, brother-in-law Jonathan bring lumberjack-inspired Timber to Panamania.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:42PM
Friday, July 17, 2015

Sharp moments but also laughs in Stratford's Oedipus Rex: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Gord Rand plays the king of Greek tragedy as more self-righteous and infantile in Daniel Brooks production.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:52PM

Possible Worlds at Stratford Festival is intoxicating: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Mitchell Cushman stages John Mighton's sci-fi murder mystery/love story with a strong, clear vision.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:31PM
Sunday, July 5, 2015

The Top Ticket: How about a feminist Entourage? by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

You can also catch Shakespeare in High Park, Friday Night Lights stand-in Monday Nights, or Josh Gondelman at Comedy Bar.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AM
Sunday, June 28, 2015

‘This is an age of startups:’ Pygmalion takes a modern turn at the Shaw Festival by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Peter Hinton’s modernization of George Bernard Shaw’s classic play turns the class wars of London in 1914 into a look at today’s ever-growing creative class.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:57AM
Friday, May 29, 2015

A poetic retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice myth: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

In Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, at Soulpepper till June 18, heroine torn between her lover above and her father in underworld.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:14PM
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Philip Nozuka makes his Toronto stage debut by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Son of artist Holly Sedgwick and brother of musicians George and Justin Nozuka draws on memories of family road trips for Durango.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:30AM
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play deserves to survive the apocalypse: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Anne Washburn’s Simpsons-related play is big, bold, weird, charming, funny, sad and smart (S-M-R-T!)

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:56PM
Thursday, May 7, 2015

The Simpsons as postapocalyptic beacon of hope by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

In Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, in Toronto May 9 to 31, the cartoon family inspires survivors of a great disaster.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:22PM
Monday, May 4, 2015

Trudeau and Levesque makes Canadian history anything but boring: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Mac Fyfe and Richard Alan Campbell portray the combatants in VideoCabaret's latest, onstage until June 14.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:36PM
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Classic play is intimate and intense in Coal Mine production: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Noah Reid, Hardee T. Lineham and Liisa Repo-Martell give fine performances in August Strindberg's Creditors.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:39PM
Friday, April 24, 2015

Heartstrings pulled in Therefore Choose Life: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Kathy Kacer and Jake Epstein make solid debut as writing team, but play doesn't always connect emotionally.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:16PM
Friday, April 17, 2015

Tom at the Farm was worth the wait: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Michel Marc Bouchard play a gripping portrayal of all-consuming grief as man visits homophobic family of his deceased lover.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:31PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Ubu and the Truth Commission unleashes puppet dogs of war by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Handspring Puppet Co., known for War Horse, enlivens play about South African atrocities with its creatures.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:20PM
Friday, April 10, 2015

Lies, truth and dangerous entanglement by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

In Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard’s Tom At The Farm a gay man is caught between comforting his late lover’s family and keeping his secret from them.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:30AM
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Infinity a fine family drama with cerebral spin: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Playwright Hannah Moscovitch charters unknown scientific territory with some familiar artillery in this Tarragon Theatre show.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:38PM
Friday, March 27, 2015

Nature of the Beast takes inscrutable dark turn: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Brandon Crone's play about a sexual dominator and his teenage nephew moves along comfortably until the last 10 minutes.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:22PM
Thursday, March 19, 2015

The Unplugging a feminist take on the apocalypse by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Allegra Fulton and Diana Belshaw are commendable playing aboriginal women, but staging doesn't allow us to delight in their achievements.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:22PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015

My Dinner with Casey Donovan never quite satisfies: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Sky Gilbert's new production opens at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AM
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

From Kensington to Harbourfront to New York for Toronto play by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Sheila Heti's All Our Days Are Stupid started out as a ‘ragtag’ production of a once ‘unstageable’ script in a tiny storefront.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:42PM
Friday, February 6, 2015

Twisted review: Oliver is innocent, Nancy is witty, but Oliver Twist remake is missing connection by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

In modern-day update Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman and Joseph Jomo Pierre now on at Factory Theatre, Nancy and Ollie are in love and communicate by text message.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:01PM
Friday, January 23, 2015

Solid cast in psychological mystery The Other Place: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Tamsin Kelsey brings bite to Sharr White's protagonist Juliana, ably supported by Jim Mezon, Haley McGee and Joe Cobden.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:35PM
Friday, January 16, 2015

HER2 a smash in theory, not always in practice: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

We feel surprisingly little for the patients in Kim Ardal's play about breast cancer, despite some crackling performances.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:31AM
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Waiting Room a solid but uneven look at life inside a hospital by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Jordan Pettle, Michelle Monteith and Jane Spidell wonderful as parents of sick children, but some scenes push us into hospital soap opera territory.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:30PM

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