Two plays on now in Toronto are trips — though of markedly different varieties
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 08:00AMCushman: I’m philosophically opposed to the idea of casting shows by TV talent contests, but it works out as well here
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:33AMMorris Panych’s adaptation of Schnitzler’s Anatol, its title extended to The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, leaves no doubt about the subject matter
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMHannah Moscovitch's combat drama is a magnificent, complex look at a platoon's psyche
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:08AMTwo stories, or rather two chapters of the same story, get juxtaposed in Natasha Greenblatt’s The Peace Maker, at the Next Stage Theatre Festival in Toronto.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00PMJulia Lederer, author of With Love and a Major Organ, has a neat way with a digital simile. So does the young woman she herself plays
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMA fairly fond look back at 2012, built around its actors, with special emphasis on those who recurred, including everyone in The Golden Dragon.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMSome 15 years ago, Anthony Rapp created the role of Mark, the videographer-narrator of Rent, and his performance was the best thing in the show
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:00PMThere are still just enough shopping hours to get the Broadway lover in your circle a few of 2012’s best offerings
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:52PMThe Young Centre is the site of a bicentennial celebration this week of Charles Dickens, playing hose to Miriam Margolyes Dickens’ Women
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:04PMThe Irish are great soliloquisers. Or is the word soliloquist? It must be, as spellcheck hasn’t given me a hard time for using it.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:39PMMany people, by Miriam Margolyes’ own account, know her best for her role as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:30AMThe title of the latest show to reach Toronto from the Old Trout Puppet Workshop of Calgary is Ignorance. But its announced subject is happiness
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMThe show, especially in its jokes, caters to the grown-ups. The kids — with a couple of tearful exceptions — didn’t seem to mind
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:43PMBoblo is less concerned with specific memories than with the persistence of memory itself
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 07:00PMIf there is such a thing as the Theatre of the Absurd, then one of its achievements is to present us with power-plays in their purest form
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:38PMJudged as a play, Fare Game is feeble to the point of non-existence. To be fair (ouch) it isn’t trying to be a play. It’s an assemblage of film clips
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMMax Frisch’s The Arsonists is a classic piece of stable door locking, an allegory about the coming to power of Nazism
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:21PMThe Little Years is sharp and economical and compassionate without being sentimental.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMCoincidence drives Speaking in Tongues to the point where it ceases to be a mere device and becomes a metaphor
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:28PMIt’s hard to resist the quintet’s rhythmic choral declaration that if they don’t get their pie they’re surely gonna die.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMWhat’s extraordinary is that a play that seems to crave death should be so full of life, that dialogue so apparently barren should be so fertile.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 07:00AMFor the second time straight, CanadianStage has housed the most spectacular show in Toronto.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:00PMIt’s worth going to Miss Caledonia just to experience Melody A. Johnson singing I’ve Been Everywhere while twirling a baton
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMThe problem with This Must Be the Place is that this doesn’t have to be the place. Let me explain.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:15PMThe glory of the show is Christopher Sieber’s wonderful Albin, who can slide instantly from petulant complaint to deep pain.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:00PMTheatre 20 is a new company whose name derives from the number of accomplished performers who are its Founding Artists and whose mission is to revive interesting old musicals and to develop …
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:45AMTear the Curtain!, which has come from the west coast to open the new season at Canadian Stage, is a different world
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMThere are three theatres in Toronto that are pleasant to visit, irrespective of what happens to be playing in them. All of them are recent buildings
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00AMThe new soap musical combines cliché and uplift with songs that no one should be singing
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:56PMMichael Healey’s Proud is notorious as the play Tarragon Theatre wouldn’t do, despite it being the last part of a successful trilogy for the theatre
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:00PM
