Performance festival celebrates 25 years in Toronto with some changes, including a new focus on dance and local curators.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:50PMAntoine Carabinier Lépine, sister Julie, father Alain, brother-in-law Jonathan bring lumberjack-inspired Timber to Panamania.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:42PMGord Rand plays the king of Greek tragedy as more self-righteous and infantile in Daniel Brooks production.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:52PMMitchell Cushman stages John Mighton's sci-fi murder mystery/love story with a strong, clear vision.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:31PMYou can also catch Shakespeare in High Park, Friday Night Lights stand-in Monday Nights, or Josh Gondelman at Comedy Bar.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMPeter 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 11:57AMIn Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, at Soulpepper till June 18, heroine torn between her lover above and her father in underworld.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:14PMSon 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 06:30AMAnne Washburn’s Simpsons-related play is big, bold, weird, charming, funny, sad and smart (S-M-R-T!)
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:56PMIn 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 04:22PMMac Fyfe and Richard Alan Campbell portray the combatants in VideoCabaret's latest, onstage until June 14.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:36PMNoah Reid, Hardee T. Lineham and Liisa Repo-Martell give fine performances in August Strindberg's Creditors.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:39PMKathy Kacer and Jake Epstein make solid debut as writing team, but play doesn't always connect emotionally.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:16PMMichel Marc Bouchard play a gripping portrayal of all-consuming grief as man visits homophobic family of his deceased lover.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:31PMHandspring Puppet Co., known for War Horse, enlivens play about South African atrocities with its creatures.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:20PMIn 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 06:30AMPlaywright Hannah Moscovitch charters unknown scientific territory with some familiar artillery in this Tarragon Theatre show.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:38PMBrandon Crone's play about a sexual dominator and his teenage nephew moves along comfortably until the last 10 minutes.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:22PMAllegra Fulton and Diana Belshaw are commendable playing aboriginal women, but staging doesn't allow us to delight in their achievements.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:22PMSky Gilbert's new production opens at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMSheila 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 01:42PMIn 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 03:01PMTamsin Kelsey brings bite to Sharr White's protagonist Juliana, ably supported by Jim Mezon, Haley McGee and Joe Cobden.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:35PMWe feel surprisingly little for the patients in Kim Ardal's play about breast cancer, despite some crackling performances.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:31AMJordan Pettle, Michelle Monteith and Jane Spidell wonderful as parents of sick children, but some scenes push us into hospital soap opera territory.
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