The story of the family that has foresworn materialism should be a blizzard of eccentricity but it isn’t. What saves it is the sweetness of the love story.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:44AMMarina Nemat's story natural for stage, but Theatre Passe Muraille production falls short
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:09PMI Love You Because is a paper-thin off-Broadway musical now playing at the Toronto Centre for the Arts.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:31PMThis extraordinarily imaginative and challenging little play uses Céline Dion as a point of departure.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:06AMEven the most ardent Tennessee Williams fan will admit that the Great Man wrote the occasional clunker. And Vieux Carré is generally reckoned to be one of them.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:12AMNancy Palk, Joseph Ziegler, Evan Buliung and Gregory Prest star in Soulpepper's Long Day's Journey Into Night, directed by Diana Leblanc.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:49PMSeeds at the Young Centre stars Eric Peterson as Percy Schmeiser, the Saskatchewan farmer who battle Monsanto.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:04PMGiven the international success of Lee MacDougall’s High Life, it’s surprising that the new Soulpepper production is the first revival here since the original burst on the scene at World…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:54PMTom Rooney, Laura Condlin and Sofia Tomic shine in Play, one of several Samuel Beckett works in Queen of Puddings’ Beckett: Feck It!
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:18PMThe main joy of Visiting Mr. Green, now at the St. Lawrence Centre’s Jane Mallett Theatre, is watching an oh-so-savvy theatre veteran ply his trade.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:08PMRavi Jain puts his mother Asha in play at Tarragon Extra Space to brilliant effect.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMThe Golden Dragon, by Germany playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig, is a fragmented play about a fragmented yet interconnected world.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:49PMQuidam, the new Cirque du Soleil extravaganza, is a love affair for the audience.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:07PMThe Evergreen Brick Works is a magical spot for The Story about the Nativity.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:54PMPlay at Buddies in Bad Times tells the story of Sufi poet Mansur al-Hallaj.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:39PMPlaywright Michael Spence’s expedition into the unknown is so murky in places that you begin to long for some kind of logic, for someone to switch on the light of cold reason.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 05:29PMThe Life and Times of Mackenzie King dishes up a cartoon-epic, eclectic caricature filled history of two decades in Canadian history
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:24AMShe sweeps audience along in intensity of her storytelling in Part 3 of trilogy.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 08:29PMRichard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra failed at becoming concert pianists, but taking their act to theatre in 2 Pianos, 4 Hands hits all the high notes.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:11PMOne-man show Circumcise Me! Traces the voyage of Yisrael Campbell from nice Catholic boy to orthodox Jew
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:52AMA cute idea doesn't bear fruit in Tarragon Theatre's silent play, Name in Vain.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:26PMThe political landscape in The Normal Heart is still compelling, but 30 years later the tears are of pity, more than anger.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:24AMA review of The Ugly One, a fun, well-written piece.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:46PMThree short stories of Ryunosuke Akutagawa depict the tales of outcast and ostracized people in A Fool’s Life at the Theatre Centre
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:47AMTwo plays, Shine Your Eye and Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God, offer poignant windows on Africa at Bluma Appel Theatre
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:34AMTwo-play package about two worlds’ interaction bound to be hit.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:26AMMove Over Mrs. Markham, a bawdy farce at Stage West about marital infidelity, is a very mixed affair indeed.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:38PMPlay set in a spa town at the very dawn of electricity in 1880, Tarragon’s Vibrator Play is a little flat, even a little dull.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:25AMThe Tale of a Town has energy and spirit but ultimately it just fizzles
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:07PMSoulpepper's staging of Arthur Miller gem suffers from slow pace, despite wonderful performance by Michael Hanrahan.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:11PM
