Nam Nguyen’s Pho is a hilariously energetic look at Vietnamese culture while Julie Phan’s Fine China looks at the painful relationship between a father and his daughters, writes Karen Fr…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:05PMIn Soulpepper’s first original musical, based on Gertrude Stein’s The World Is Round, the actors and friends play 9-year-olds.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMCharacters could be considered representative of a crisis in Western culture around destructive and self-destructive behaviours, but that theme plays out perhaps too much in deep background,…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:07PMThe second play in Susanna Fournier’s Empire Trilogy is very beautiful and deeply unpleasant, writes Karen Fricker
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:28PMCritic Karen Fricker catches and reviews half of the dozen shows in the festival during a packed weekend.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:20PMIn taking this story on for the indie company Saga Collectif, playwright Ho Ka Kei grappled with the question of where he and his collaborators, mostly queer folks and people of colour, coul…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:16PMThe anchor of the play is Philip Riccio as Clark, who through understated but profound character work draws the audience into Clark’s psyche and his dilemma, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:43PMIt gets a bit overextended at the end but the Toronro production of The Play That Goes Wrong delivers on its promise: a laugh-filled night where nothing goes right.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:21PMTheatre professionals offer their thoughts on the state of the industry in Toronto — the changes that have come and those that are still needed.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMOrphan Black stars aims to ‘honour and respect’ Faye Dunaway’s turn as Diana Christensen in the 1976 film version, but also tries ‘to own it for myself,’ she tells the Star’s Kar…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMCircus show by 7 Fingers at CAA Theatre uses performers’ relations as inspiration for their top-notch, wow-factor feats.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:43PMThe Vancouver-born actor passed his audition ‘with flying colours’ to pay the title role in the Toronto production of Broadway smash Dear Evan Hansen.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMWith Cirque du Soleil and 7 Fingers opening shows here this week, and Champions of Magic next week, Karen Fricker looks at the appeal of this style of entertainment.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMA piece of advice for audiences is to pay attention right off the top, as information provided then informs everything that follows.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:17PMSongs, jokes and meta-jokes in an intimate space are just what this time of year needs, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:49PMPowerful direction and design choices, a committed solo performance and well-advised brevity make a strong impact.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:33PMAfter several weeks of controversy, Buddies in Bad Times is back to the business of its 40th anniversary season with a welcome revival of this 2012 hit.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:29PMPetty, who’s staging The Wizard of Oz, sees pantos as a response to the negativity coming from the U.S. while Torr, whose Torrent Productions is presenting Cinderella, touts pantos for bri…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00PMAndrew Lloyd Webber’s musical adaptation of the hit film is too long, yet it gets better as it goes along, thanks to an impressive cast of young talent who play their own instruments, writ…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:37PMThere is a disconnect between the wild imaginative power of Monkey’s adventures and the limited material means through which they’re conveyed, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:22AMR.H. Thomson is in bravura form as McLuhan, but play’s female actors are sorely underused, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:26PMMiddletown, now at Toronto’s Streetcar Crowsnest, shows off authorial voice found, the writer says, after exhausting work on Wall Street.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:58AMMichael Rubenfeld took mother Mary Berchard, a daughter of Holocaust survivors, to Poland to work some things out in their relationship. He came back with a documentary play.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMDirector Ken Gass’s new approach with female actors of varied cultural and ethnic backgrounds comes across as projecting the experiences of others.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:35PMYPT’s version of the beloved musical also takes a welcome approach to casting, with Vanessa Sears playing Mary with winning crispness, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:15PMSurprise, uncertainty, even risk are part of the experience for those who take the theatrical voyage that begins in Barrie, Ontario and ends in London, England three days later.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMJournalists Jesse Kline and Jesse Brown find the theatre production about the liberal/conservative ideological divide is an accurate microcosm of what passes for civil discourse today.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:31PMThe story is a microcosm of something billions of members of the human race have gone through, but which Western society still tells us is not appropriate for polite conversation: what it’…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:51PMDespite its unflattering portrayal of a Jewish family fighting over an inheritance, Rabbi Edward Elkin tells Karen Fricker he sees merit in Bad Jews.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:43PMThe play is acutely topical, even though it’s been in development for nine years, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:41PMMarco Ramirez’s powerful play is based on the real-life story of boxer Jack Johnson, who became world heavyweight champion in 1910, sparking race riots.
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