Wednesday, September 21, 2016
New Friday program includes the Stranger Things companion Past Dark and the fine art-inspired La Grande Jatte.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:48AMSunday, September 18, 2016
The topical Watershed, many shades of funny at JFL42 and revisiting the Quebec classic Hosanna.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:00AMThursday, September 15, 2016
There are no heroes and villains in this well told story of the effects of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:57AMSunday, September 11, 2016
Gilmore with the Guys, Eric Andre's caustic comedy and stay out Past Dark at Bad Dog Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMFriday, September 9, 2016
Pearle’s delivery is a tongue-in-cheek talking Facebook feed, delivered under a portrait of Justin Trudeau.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00PMSunday, September 4, 2016
Manifesto is 10; a new take on The Wizard of Oz; Kill Your Parents in Viking, Alberta at the Storefront.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMFriday, September 2, 2016
Mainstage show rips topics from the headlines and some of the more topical sketches hit nerves.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:23PMThursday, September 1, 2016
Character of Laura in Tennessee Williams play given more agency than usual in Howland Company production.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:26PMSunday, August 28, 2016
Second City's Come What Mayhem, The Glass Menagerie and Death of a Salesman in Yiddish at the Ashkenaz Festival.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:00AMThursday, August 25, 2016
Romeo has a female body but goes by male pronouns in Shakespeare in the Ruff production.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:00PMTuesday, August 23, 2016
Antoni Cimolino’s final production at the 2016 Stratford Festival is of Molière’s 1673 comedy The Hypochondriac.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMMonday, August 22, 2016
Playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s newest work flips the usual narrative of the Jane Austen heroine.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMSunday, August 7, 2016
Bad Dog Summer Blockbuster Week, Raconteurs' Teen Stories and a reading of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMSaturday, August 6, 2016
Following Soulpepper’s new mandate to become Canada’s National Civic Theatre, the company’s upcoming season includes a mini-festival of experimental contemporary solo performances and …
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:19PMFriday, August 5, 2016
Four actors portray more than 150 characters in this adaptation of the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:55PMTuesday, August 2, 2016
From theatre, dance and music to cooking class and a sleepover, 10 productions worth seeing.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:46PMSunday, July 31, 2016
SummerWorks Festival, Dusk Dances and The Imposter podcast at the Gladstone.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMSaturday, July 30, 2016
She chose the bloody Sweeney Todd for her exit as Shaw Festival artistic director.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:00PMThursday, July 28, 2016
Ibsen's original criticized social constrictions on women. Why can’t we do the same today for ‘yoga moms’?
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:14PMSunday, July 24, 2016
Cirque du Soleil's Luzia, David Cross at Danforth Music Hall and Soulpepper's Father Comes Home From the Wars.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMThursday, July 21, 2016
Campbell House setting keeps immersive production interesting, but script could use some work.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:01PMWednesday, July 20, 2016
Driftwood Theatre production suggests power dynamic between Kate and Petruchio is mutually deliberate.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:40PMSunday, July 17, 2016
Complex characters made more complicated and the false ideal of heterosexual marriage are intriguing twists in Shakespeare in High Park's adaptations of Hamlet and All's Well That Ends Well.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:42PMThe 39 Steps at Soulpepper, Driftwood’s Taming of the Shrew and Bastid's BBQ
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMSunday, July 10, 2016
Porch View Dances, BoylesqueTO's Oh Manada! and ps: We Are Here.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMSunday, July 3, 2016
Matilda the Musical, Hogtown at Campbell House and Inessa and Sarah’s Superstar Variety Show.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMTuesday, June 28, 2016
Natasha Mumba fierce and funny in Shaw Festival's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:17PMMonday, June 27, 2016
Canadian Opera takes most prizes with eight. Tarragon Theatre takes three. Mirvish's Kinky Boots takes three.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:30PMSunday, June 26, 2016
Eda Holmes’s production plays up the eye candy and posturing, but its strength is in moments of intimate honesty.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:03PMThe Fringe Festival, Buffy Sainte-Marie with the TSO and Shakespeare in High Park.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMSaturday, June 25, 2016
A satire of British society, W.S. Gilbert's 1887 play has plenty of laughs, but it gets a little repetitive towards the end.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:11PM 
