So, 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
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:13PMThe Next Stage Theatre Festival is an ambiguous animal. It began, or so I’ve always assumed, as a way of giving a second airing to shows that had proved successful
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:55PMFrom Franz Kafka a sartorially specific motherf--ker, the country’s theatre scene was awash in outstanding works this year — so much so that no mere Top 10 list could hold every deservin…
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:26PMI had always thought the imaginary child to be a crutch for the playwright rather than for the characters. This production has changed my mind
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:15PMYPT’s production of James and the Giant Peach, a musical based on the Roald Dahl book and directed by Sue Miner, has two great things going for it
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:33PMPierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French geologist and paleontologist whose crucial scientific work was done before the Second World War. He was also a Jesuit priest
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:15PMMary Queen of Scots is a sovereign who has never lacked for theatrical attention. The James Plays are an ambitious attempt by a Scottish playwright and TV writer, Rona Munro, to even the odds
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:45AMThe acronym NSFW stands for 'not safe for work.' The play of which the acronym is the title has a further subtitle: Money, Sex and Photoshop
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:38PMThe plays are more successful at evoking a world than at making a point, but they still dazzle
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:48PMWelcome to the graveyard. You’ll be amazed at how lively it is. Spoon River is adapted, by Albert Schultz and Mike Ross, from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 06:22PM'The historical novelist,' or so I once read, 'must necessarily turn history into romance, and romance will always lie with the deposed or threatened king'
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:41PMIt seems that hardly a show can open in Toronto that isn’t a tribute to some troubadour or other
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:38PMRebel Without a Cosmos doesn't match its predecessor, but it has its share of giggle-worthy gags
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:08PMDespite its awful title, Julie Madly Deeply is a delightful show
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:21AMIbsen scholars have generally ranked An Enemy of the People fairly low in their man’s canon, maybe because of its spirited straightforwardness
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:54PMWith a cast composed of transported convicts, Our Country’s Good, by the contemporary British dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker, is now touching down in Toronto for the second time
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:57PMThe show that has opened could not be called good, but it isn’t uniformly terrible either. It defeats expectation in other ways too
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:16AMIf you are the monarch of a strictly Protestant 17th-century country, and you want to keep the job, try not to be pacifist, intellectually curious, sympathetic toward Catholicism, homosexual…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:02PMIt’s a critical commonplace that Romeo and Juliet were lucky to die when they did. If they had survived, their image wouldn’t have. A Tender Thing is a reassembly of the play, if you will
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 06:00PMThere are cuts and there are cuts. There are also additions and substitutions. Two of Shakespeare’s unruliest plays are currently on view in surgically altered or truncated versions
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:19PMBoth also fold very nicely and usefully into the main action; of its kind, this is an exceptionally well-made play
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:15PMMolière wrote farces that tilt toward tragedy. The huge achievement of Laszlo Marton’s Soulpepper production of Tartuffe is that it takes both aspects to the limit without letting either …
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:26PMIt’s Martin Luther King’s last night on earth. He doesn’t know it of course, but the audience does; and that simple contrast is what sustains The Mountaintop
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00AMCharlie Gallant, a rising young actor at the Shaw Festival, gives an intense and compelling performance as Johnny Boyle in Juno and the Paycock
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00AMThere is a strain of cruelty in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Peter Sellars’ Stratford production embraces it, to the exclusion of almost everything else. The result is certainly striki…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:37PM“A lady and a gentleman are making love to one another in the drawing room.” That is the opening stage direction of The Philanderer, Bernard Shaw’s second play, written in 1893
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:00PMEdward Bond’s The Sea is a great play up until its final scene
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00AMFriday July 18. A sad day for Toronto book lovers, and for theatre lovers both within and without the city
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:02PMShakespeare in High Park, formerly The Dream in High Park, took a notable step forward last year with its production of Macbeth, which was less concerned than its predecessors with playing g…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00AMIn a way that’s unique among musicals, the action of Company takes place in a split second
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:51PMA tricky farce falls flat in Stratford's production
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