Friday, April 27, 2012
The 1936 Hart and Kaufman play is an early prototype of the wacky family comedy genre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:30PM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Robert Chafe tells an uplifting story of a shipwreck, a rescue, and open-hearted enlightenment set against the backdrop of the civil-rights struggle
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
While American and British playwrights have already mounted plays about the post-9/11 wars, all has been quiet on the Canadian theatrical front. That silence is about to be broken as three n…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2012
There are three actresses in Daniel MacIvor’s new play, but it’s soon apparent there’s only one real character
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park examines two generations of race, class and real estate angst
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 5, 2012
Two short plays derive their plots - and current relevance - from ancient Greek tragedies
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 1, 2012
A Quebec playwright is taking heat for setting one of his MP3-guided ‘podplays’ in the balcony of a theatre where another production was unfolding onstage
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2012
Olivier Choinière’s play previously mounted at SummerWorks comes to the stage of Buddies in Bad Times
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2012
With this ambitious re-staging of a Tennessee Williams play that flopped when it first appeared, the New York theatre troupe plays tricks with our memory
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
The Stratford show’s Judas, sidelined during previews due to illness, makes a comeback just in time for the Broadway opener
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM[SHARE]A Broadway revival shows off Philip Seymour Hoffman’s acting talent, but an eight-hour Gatz is where the American Dream is really dissected
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2012
Des McAnuff and the Stratford Festival bring a less-is-more approach to the Great White Way
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Healey’s comedy takes place in a counterfactual Canada, where a Prime Minister very much like our Prime Minister won a much bigger majority - and even swept Quebec - in the 2011 election
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 07:05PM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2012
August: Osage County should be on the main stage, and God of Carnage should be relegated to the B house
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2012
The NHL’s return to Winnipeg has hockey fans turning handsprings, but is it cutting into attendance at cultural events?
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2012
Antoni Cimolino’s appointment as Stratford’s next artistic director was announced the same day as new, and shocking, attendance figures
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:33AM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2012
Playwright Morwyn Brebner has left after more than a decade, leaving more questions about whether the theatre gave in to political pressure
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
As the Canadian cast of Jesus Christ Superstar prepares to face the New York critics, key players talk to about taking on the Great White Way
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM[SHARE]Free as Injuns, an adaptation of Desire Under the Elms, will make you wish you were seeing that rarely produced Eugene O’Neill play instead
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Creation takes the ancient theatrical art of puppetry and uses it to stir the soul
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:10PM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2012
With all the success Quebec filmmakers are having adapting French-Canadian plays, why isn’t the same trend happening in English Canada?
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM[SHARE]Diana Leblanc steered a legendary version of Eugene O’Neill’s tragic family drama at Stratford, and while her new production is often wrenching, it does sometimes suffer by compari…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Lee MacDougall’s one-off wonder provides an opportunity for four offbeat performances
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:50PM[SHARE] 
