Michael 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 03:00PMThere’s a kind of hush all over the house while it’s playing: the sound of an audience caught, held, rapt.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMThe best scene in No Great Mischief — really, the only good one — occurs in the second act & takes place in the '60s, in a mine on Cape Breton
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMThere’s probably never been a time since its premiere in 1949 that Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman hasn’t seemed topical
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMMost Cirque productions have a story that boils down to someone going on a quest. Amaluna, with its classical underpinnings, has more of a spine.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:00PMToronto has a new cabaret venue, the Flying Beaver Pubaret, which as its name might suggest, is in the back room — a long and elegant one
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMYou win some, you lose some. Second City won with their last show, which was the best in recent memory. They lose heavily with its successor
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMWhat used to be Shakespeare in the Rough is now Shakespeare in the Ruff. What used to be The Two Gentlemen of Verona is now Two Gents
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMI doubt if any modern play offers more visceral excitement than The Crucible
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:00PMThe 2b Theatre Company from Halifax has an excellent track record that’s further enhanced by When It Rains, their show at this year’s SummerWorks
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMNo more need to beware of Greeks bearing gifts, not when they are as gifted as director Thomas Moschopoulos and his cohorts.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:00PMThere’s a driving logic to the Shaw's production that makes the play come up fresh and exciting
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 08:00AMOur critic has seen two productions of this play, and in neither has it registered as more than a succession of scenes.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMAt 82, Plummer remains Canada’s premier actor: a position, it’s sobering to recall, that he has held for more than half a century
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:00AMThere’s a very good scene in the second act of Backbeat in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney write a song together
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMSoulpepper is bringing us American playwrights in matching pairs. They followed David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross with Speed-the-Plow
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:00AMDaniel MacIvor's The Best Brothers, now playing at Stratford, may be the playwright's best play, even if it is one of his most conventional
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 06:52PMAlon Nashman, an actor I greatly admire, is appearing at Stratford in a one-man play about John Hirsch, a director whose memory I revere
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 08:00AMDavid Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow is Mamet lite. It’s also Mamet funny, and Soulpepper under David Storch has given it a tight, entertaining production
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMThe Shaw Festival has mounted a very good production of what may be the most unnecessary play ever written
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:12PMThe best parts of Des McAnuff’s production of Henry V, his last Shakespeare as Stratford’s artistic director, are the beginning and the end
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:30AMIn Morris Panych’s Wanderlust, Stratford’s best musical this year, Robert Service is putting in time while dreaming of life in the Yukon
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMThe two best Canadian performances this year are being given by Corrine Koslo and Ric Reid in Come Back, Little Sheba
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMGood, fresh stagings of A Midsummer Night's Dream do come along every so often
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:30PMThe surroundings may be different but the quality is the same. The writing by Michael Hollingsworth is pungent, the staging is brilliant.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PMJust over a week ago, the board of Toronto’s Factory Theatre announced that they had fired their long-serving artistic director, Ken Gass
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:00AMThe musical hit in London at the moment, in fact the biggest in years, is Matilda
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:00PMAt the U.K.'s big theatre, Nicholas Hytner has presided over a long line of successes
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 06:00PMI had the same reaction as everyone else to the announcement that the Stratford Festival would be producing You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:00PMThey play seemingly affable, cultivated men, whose gentle banter proves to cover great depths, certainly of sorrow and probably of shame.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00PMThe church scene in Much Ado About Nothing is one of the most notorious booby traps in Shakespeare, the point at which two major plot lines collide
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:00PM
