Friday, May 27, 2011
Shaw Festival’s new production of the Tennessee Williams classic features a pair of performances that will knock your socks off
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2011
The acting is skillful, but the show runs long and it’s not always clear what tack director Christopher Newton is taking
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:09PM[SHARE]Shaw Festival’s fascinating, well-acted production features skyscraping speeches, ‘strange seas of thought’
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:39AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2011
Artistic director Christopher Newton is tackling George Bernard Shaw’s masterpiece Heartbreak House for the third time at this season’s Shaw Festival. He shares several decades of …
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2011
One-man show about being a hyphenated Canadian won a G-G’s Award on its 1993 debut, but now just feels dated
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Soulpepper’s double bill, meant to open our eyes to our fellow city dwellers, is pleasant, indeed
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:16PM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2011
The play’s got a vintage steam engine and enthusiastic actors, but will modern audiences find there’s enough to keep them interested?
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:56PM[SHARE]The play’s got a vintage steam engine and enthusiastic actors, but will modern audiences find there’s enough to keep them interested?
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:56PM[SHARE]Production will appeal to anglophiles and train enthusiasts - kids and adults - alike
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Nominations pass over famous film and TV stars and jukebox musicals for stage actors and original-score shows
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 1, 2011
While the arts haven't played a key role in this election, a group of theatre artists in Quebec hope that they can.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Quebec playwright piles on the plot twists, but there’s light at the end of this dark tunnel
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Playwright Mouawad and director Rose had a huge hit with Scorched. Now they will try to replicate that acclaim with Mouawad’s new play Forests
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2011
Canadian Stage brings life to a voyage through miscommunication, diplomacy and the cosmos
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:32PM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2011
Wajdi Mouawad’s newest play explores dark themes of forgiveness, forgetting and scars that won’t heal
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
In this production, the dark corners are under-explored and the tone flip-flops between tough and tender
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
A look at some of the productions coming up for the 2011-2012 season of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:39PM[SHARE]Hard-core ‘phans’ are the Canadian organizers of website arguing that the new Lloyd Webber sequel Should Die
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:01AM[SHARE]Hard-core ‘phans’ are the Canadian organizers of website arguing that the new Lloyd Webber sequel Should Die
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2011
The emotionally powerful play set in troubled Nunavut also shines a light on the appealing idiosyncrasies of the place
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
With a new play premiering in Manchester and another running in his hometown of Edmonton, he’s feeling reflective and taking chances
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2011
The controversial play viscerally traces the many human tragedies that accompanied a massacre of Jews in German-occupied Poland
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:30PM[SHARE]With Southern Ontario’s two big festivals launching new seasons, theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck offers a pop quiz to point you in the right (stage left) direction
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Ed Roy directs his excruciatingly earnest and poorly written play at a glacial pace
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00PM[SHARE]Bertrand Cantat, who served four years in prison for the death of his partner Marie Trintignant, will be featured in a Montreal production of Des Femmes
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:14PM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2011
