Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane was his first play and, when staged in London in the 1960s, made him an instant celebrity
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMIf Faith Healer is excessively demanding but somewhat nourishing, Enchanted April is excessively undemanding and not nourishing at all
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:24PMKer Wells’ production of Macbeth is carried out with intelligence and imagination, and cast, for the most part, with actors who are equal to their roles
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00AMIf Rooney’s Vladimir is a fine performance, Stephen Ouimette’s Estragon is a great one: as down at heart as at heels, and perversely glorying in his destitution.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:00PMOne of the great things — actually the greatest thing — about Joss Whedon’s film of Much Ado About Nothing is how natural it sounds.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:00PMThe list of nominees for this year's Dora Awards provokes a mix of head-nodding, brow-smiting, and eye-rolling.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMWilde reigns on the Shaw Festival’s main stage, while George Bernard Shaw himself is confined to its smaller houses.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMStratford’s opening week reaches its peak with Mary Stuart, a play that, in the special dramatic world of counter-factuals, reigns supreme
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:16PMDes McAnuff’s Stratford production of Tommy is a superlative feat of visual storytelling. McAnuff takes perfectly disciplined advantage of his new technological opportunities
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMIt isn’t quite indestructible (Harvey Fierstein proved that a few years ago) but it’s the next best thing
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 08:00AMThe comedy isn’t just a matter of individually humorous lines or even scenes, though Tim Carroll’s production is exceptionally adroit at discovering and delivering these
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:30PMOur Betters by W. Somerset Maugham, on now in a good production at the Shaw Festival, mocks the quaint belief that our own age is less moral than previous ones
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMStaged and performed with immense style, Of a Monstrous Child is a musical-intellectual collage that centres on, or more accurately swirls around, the figure of Lady Gaga
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:04PMIn 1998 in London, the Royal Family in attendance, there was a gala tribute to Cameron Mackintosh, the most successful of musical theatre producers then, now, and conceivably ever
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMThe best thing about The Book of Mormon is that it all comes right in the end. Or nearly
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:50PMRobert McQueen’s version of a slightly older American musical, William Finn’s Falsettos, is a fine production. I call it a 'version' because Falsettos has a complicated history
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:30PMDavid Yee’s Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave is a talented piece of work — but it nonetheless comes close to drowning in its own ambition
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:30PMNigel Shawn Williams, playing a lawyer in David Mamet’s Race on now at Canadian Stage's Bluma Appel Theatre, gives a virtuoso performance
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:30PMThe only thing wrong with Soulpepper’s production of La Ronde is the billing
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00AMThe brothers in True West represent what the West mythically used to be, what has become of it and, by extension, what has become of America
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:00PMGirth and vulnerability were constants in the career of Griffiths who died last week in England, aged 65, personally mourned, it would seem, by everybody who either saw his work or was invol…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:32PMThis is a very American play by a Canadian playwright. Or rather: This is a very American play by a Canadian playwright
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:00PMRobert Cushman: As I Lay Dying is a novella written by William Faulkner and now put onstage by the folks at Theatre Smith-Gilmour
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMInnocence Lost, about the Steven Truscott case, is being given a new joint production by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and the Centaur Theatre of Montreal
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMA middle-aged man wins tickets to a production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and seeing it changes his life. That’s the situation in And Slowly Beauty
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMThe Tarragon Theatre continues its Hannah Moscovitch festival with a double bill of plays concerned in some way with children
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:00PM"Who would have thought we were so important?” Rosencrantz asks Guildenstern towards the end of Tom Stoppard’s theatrical memorial
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMEverybody, or so one hopes, wishes the new regime at Factory Theatre well. The new joint artistic directors were parachuted into their positions
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMIt's only in the last stages of RARE that there is a mention of Down’s syndrome. Judith Thompson, who directs, made a canny decision here
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMAbraham speaks with Robert Cushman about his upcoming east-end theatre
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMTwo plays on now in Toronto are trips — though of markedly different varieties
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