In the first instance of Cirque du Soleil bringing a show out of retirement, the retooled Alegria: In a New Light comes to Toronto in September.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMThose who prefer theatre that takes formal risks, comments on pressing societal concerns and pushes the art form in new directions will likely find it hard to invest much in ‘Art,’ write…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:48PMWajdi Mouawad’s play, now at Stratford, goes deep into the Israel/Palestine conflict and offers a profound experience of feeling and thought, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:44PMThe Shaw’s design, costume and makeup teams also deserve praise. And Kate Hennig has brought a welcome contemporary sensibility to the text, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:10PMGraham Isador returns to theatre festival with White Heat, about a journalist faced with alt-right hostility; Lauren Gillis brings Safe and Sorry, about pickup culture, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:31PMThe lead actors in the Shaw Festival’s production of Victory share their admiration for a play that’s extreme but also ‘incredibly human and funny’.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:30AMIt may take more time for Cara Gee and Eion Bailey to flesh out their performances to fill the stage, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:17PMThe fast-paced version has pleasing performances even if the running time renders part of the climax improbable.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:00PMSongs are so good and Christine Dwyer so strong in the lead that it’s a bit hard to accept why she’s with her lout of a husband.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:30AMThis season’s directors, Liza Balkan and Severn Thompson, tell Karen Fricker about the challenges of producing condensed Shakespeare in the great outdoors.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMWhile the writing is overwrought by contemporary standards, the actors commit to the situation while director Peter Hinton-Davis infuses it with the politics of sex and gender circa 2019, wr…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:53PMGraham Linehan’s written some great one-liners and the cast are zinging them well. What has yet to come together is the production’s overall rhythm and tone, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:26PMMusical hitting Toronto next month was an inspiring, even life-altering gig for pop songwriter.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMFu-GEN Theatre Company’s wildly ambitious show Fearless lets drivers around Markham pick up actors and experience theatre in their own vehicles.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMCanadian Opera Company also scores with Eugene Onegin, the big winner in the opera category, as awards honouring Toronto’s theatre community got handed out Tuesday.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00AMSean Dixon’s play about the ‘world’s first animal superstar’ revisits his life and death in St. Thomas, Ontario, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:19PMThis song cycle gives us sheltering in a cave from a massive forest fire, who entertain themselves and us even as the threat of destruction grows closer, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:57PMThe Lion King enthralls with its design, music and performance while Mormon delivers risqué material ‘with a heart,’ theatre experts tell Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:36PMBusy Kate Hennig’s plays, with their contemporary language, make us see historical figures in a more sympathetic light. That’s just one thing she working on, however.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMThe marriage of the material realities of live theatrical staging and the formal conventions of screen media clash because audiences’ familiarity with the latter are likely to make them im…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:25PMIt’s we who illuminate Burkett’s marionettes with flashlights. It’s we whom Burkett entrusts with handmade hand puppets. And it’s we who decide (or not) to buy into his interweaving …
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:51PMAngela Murdoch and her company Lookup Theatre turned the true story of a battle between Toronto Orangemen and an American circus troupe into a circus-comedy hybrid playing Sterling Rd.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMJonathan Goad plays Henry VIII as rock star; Irene Poole’s Katherine of Aragon leavens the sexism in the play and Rod Beattie fully commits to the role of Wolsey, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:21PMStratford Festival production lives up to festival’s standards of and high-level execution and lets Donna Feore do what she does best: large-scale production numbers with kinetically inven…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:33PMIn Nigel Shawn Williams’ hands, racism and misogyny foreground the jealousy traditionally seen as the primary theme of Shakespeare’s Othello, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:43PMThe poetry of a real-life man labouring in inhumane conditions is set to music in I swallowed a moon made of iron, at Berkeley Street Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:03PMFounded 18 years ago as festival of five short plays, the Paprika Festival has grown into an organization supporting young and emerging artists year-round, culminating this year in a weeklon…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:01AMErin Shields’s play Beautiful Man is mostly made up of three women (Ashley Botting, Mayko Nguyen, Sofia Rodriguez) sitting on tall stools narrating their experience of watching that cop sh…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00AMThere is no mystery around the fact that Wyndham Brandon and Charles Granillo have strangled an Oxford classmate. The suspense is whether or not they’ll be found out.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00AMChristine Brubaker has created an extraordinary esprit de corps amongst the 14-member cast and the nearly-all-female creative team.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMTragic love story between two men in early 20th-century rural Quebec, undermined by homophobia and social conservatism tied to the Catholic Church.
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