Marie Lou is a split-level play, literally so in Leblanc’s production, which gives us two characters upstairs and two down
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:13PMThe RSC did more than change the title, they changed the nature of the play
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 08:31PMThe monologue of a would-be murder plays with power at the audience's expense
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:14PMThe most intriguing item in the Mirvish package is Gaslight, a psychological thriller from the 1930s
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 08:58PMSoulpepper first staged The Play’s the Thing in 1999
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:22PMLondon Road has the same problem all film musicals face: people breaking into song seems odd
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:13PMFor some half-dozen years, a favourite question among Canadian theatre audiences was 'how long can we hang on to Chilina Kennedy?'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:02PMMost live entertainments begin with admonitions to the audience to refrain from the use of recording devices of any kind. Not this one: it exists to go viral.
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:02PMThe historic form and function of Hamilton
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:55PMSummer bows out, the festivals wind down, and the Toronto theatres gear up for a new season
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:42PMWritten entirely in verse, The Alchemist's heady use of language makes it distinctive and hilarious
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:04PMThe new Stratford production of Love’s Labour’s Lost begins, brilliantly, with Mike Shara arriving late
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:37PMThe writing is certainly racy, in the sense of both pungency and speed
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:51PMTim Carroll, the newly-named Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival, has never directed a play by George Bernard Shaw
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:45AMThe final three openings at this year’s Shaw Festival are all, to some degree, plays about plays
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:13PMThe whole thing takes four hours, and I would sit through it again in a heartbeat
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:43PMThe title alone is worth a couple of looks
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:34PMOedipus is complex, but this production has him striking a simple continuous note of self-righteous self-pity
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:26PMArtistic director introduced a new subtlety and elegance to Stratford
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:26PMf this Caesar strikes interesting but intermittent sparks off the play, The Comedy of Errors is, that rare thing in the Park, the complete deal, gondola and all
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:44PMSome moments are stirring, some moving, but the overall feel in the Panamania site-specific production is amorphous
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:30PMRobert Lepage describes his new show 887 as a 'dive into the waters of my past'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:51PMPanamania pours out political drama and technological marvels with The Watershed and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:58PMThis is a Disney show based on a Disney movie (sporting of the Mouse to give us a production where the baddies are conglomerates) so it’s history at two removes
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:07PMPeter Hinton's present-set Pygmalion suffers from a temporal flaw in logic, but packs an emotional punch
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:49PMBarrie is of course best known as the author of Peter Pan, he’s otherwise been famous for his craftsmanship and notorious for his sentimentality. This play confirms the first quality and m…
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:55PMIn this production, the incoherence that briefly disfigures the last scene all but destroys the first
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:39AMShe Stoops to Conquer, directed by Martha Henry, also has an unexpected introduction but this time the surprise comes, not from the director’s departing from the text, but from her returni…
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:34PMStratford lends considerable heft to the Bard's not-quite-Shakespearean 17th-century-crowd-pleaser
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:09PMRobert Cushman sifts through the nominations and makes his picks for the Dora Awards
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:09PMThe Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: The Musical boasts a proficient score and some excellent performances, but the story’s point has been blunted and, consequently, its energy sapped
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