The 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
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:12PMDilworth’s production is beautiful, sensitive to every modulation in the text
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:08PMTo cut to the chase: Hay is the angriest Katharina I have ever seen
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 08:18PMJillian Keiley’s production of The Diary of Anne Frank is very much a Production
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:46PMThe show Titanic wipes the film Titanic off the face of the ocean
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:03PMClimb Ev’ry Mountain," from The Sound of Music, bores me to metaphorical tears; "You’ll Never Walk Alone," from Carousel, moves me to real ones
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:57PMIt’s a terrific thriller, with its suspense, along with its wit, played to the limit in Miles Potter’s scintillating Stratford production
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:21PMThe most striking thing about this play full of conflict is that it has no unsympathetic characters, no evil people: only evil spirits
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:13PMThere is an extraordinary freshness about the new Hamlet at Stratford, the best Shakespeare production on the main Festival stage since the last Hamlet at Stratford
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:22PMWhen the Shaw Festival is good, it’s very very good: see The Lady from the Sea (and, with a couple of caveats, Sweet Charity). When it’s bad, see, or don’t, Peter and the Starcatcher
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:25PMWhat’s extraordinary about the Shaw Festival’s production is how well it works without the Fosse staging
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:43PMThe Shaw Festival’s opening production of You Never Can Tell begins as a pain and ends as a delight
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:49PMThis, then, is a bedroom farce in which nobody gets any sex and hardly anybody gets any sleep
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:29PMThis Much Ado has been touted as “the Bollywood version” and it does include a lot of singing and dancing, Indian style, though these are hardly the most distinguished parts of the eveni…
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:10PMIt's home sweet home for two plays opening in Toronto
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:50AMDavid Mamet is famous, or notorious, for writing plays with either no roles for women or bad ones. The second part of the charge isn’t altogether fair
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:02PMThis Farewell Tour really is Goodbye and that it really is Glorious
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:12PMLike most of Moscovitch’s plays, this one is gripping from moment to moment; unlike her best ones, it doesn’t make those moments cohere.
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:13PMIn recent seasons Toronto’s independent theatre companies have fashioned a cottage industry of bringing us Shanley plays
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:19PMDurang’s play, a Tony-winner in 2010, arrives in Toronto in a first-rate production, directed by Dean Paul Gibson and presented by David Mirvish by way of the Royal Manitoba Theare Centre,…
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 11:02AMI don’t know what Harper Regan is about but that doesn’t stop it from being both interesting and entertaining
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:24PMOnce returns to Canadian stages, but did it bear repeating?
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:01PMIt’s an evening that starts out terrific but gradually runs out of steam, even while remaining steamy.
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:11PMAll around this is the blithest Blithe Spirit I have seen.
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:48PMReviews of Florence Gibson MacDonald's How Do I Love Thee? and atmospheric thriller Abyss.
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:50AMRobert Cushman reviews Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Twisted that are both running in Toronto this month
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 11:29AMThe play is a classic in its own country, and over the last forty years or so has begun to establish itself in England
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 08:45AMThe problem with plays about illness is that there’s no one to blame
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:48PMThis week, Toronto welcomed tree plays on momentous topics, all presented with a high level of skill — and all suffering from a lack of focus
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:11AMIt was once said — by Peter Ustinov, who was half-Russian himself — that teamwork and Chekhov are incompatible
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:39PMSo, there’s this medieval thug called Robin Hood and he robs the rich. Period. He’s obviously operating on the sensible maxim espoused by thieves of a later generation
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