Friday, September 28, 2012
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 03:00PM[SHARE]There'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 02:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 22, 2012
The 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 15, 2012
There'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 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 13, 2012
Most 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 04:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 8, 2012
Toronto 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 1, 2012
You 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 25, 2012
What 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
The 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2012
No 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 04:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 12, 2012
Our 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2012
At 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 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 5, 2012
There'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 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2012
Soulpepper 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 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Daniel 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 06:52PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 29, 2012
Alon 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 08:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 21, 2012
David 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The Shaw Festival has mounted a very good production of what may be the most unnecessary play ever written
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The 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 11:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2012
In 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2012
Sunday, July 8, 2012
The 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2012
Just 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 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 24, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Saturday, June 16, 2012
I 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 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2012
They 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 09:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 9, 2012
The 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[SHARE] 
