'Our first sight of the Shaw Festival’s Alice in Wonderland raises expectations and raises them high'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:43PM'It may be a tribute to Filippo's performance that he comes off so insufferable, but his being the author makes the play seem insufferable too'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:32PMWhile Botticelli is creatively reimagined, Sunday in Sodom, despite its serious setting, feels jokey rather than witty
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:34PMNone of the other characters come to comparable life, while the text gives the actors little to work with
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:46PM'All the characters have to choose between love and business, and we’re kept wondering which way each of them will jump'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:58PM'Was my lack of interest due to my inability to follow both stories, or could I not follow them because I wasn’t interested?'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:58PM'Masks slip, the more painfully because neither man suspected he was wearing a mask to begin with'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 11:07AM'The clichés in the writing infect the supporting performances, of which several are mediocre and a couple downright dreadful'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:48PMThe marriage in Blood Wedding is cursed before it happens, and the play echoes that sentiment
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:00PMEven set in a province where memory is a fetish, the play doesn’t work hard enough to establish its political dimension
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:38PMDavid French’s play – premiered in 1984, set in 1925 - has two characters. Jain’s version gives it three
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:28PMIt was an esteemed show, if not quite a hit, on Broadway 10 years ago and has been brought to us now by Acting Up Stage
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:42PMMy condiments to the chef
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:31PMThe two-character play was first produced by Theatre Columbus in 1987 and has since been established, if not as a Canadian classic, then certainly as a Canadian standby
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 08:38PMThe play has a cast of Stratford notables, with a sprinkling from the Shaw, all of them in the confined 100-seat space of the Coal Mine Theatre, acting at full exhilarating throttle
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:14PMThe good in the play outweighs the bad, and the current Toronto production, which comes to us from England
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:07PMIt might be said that, in his many seasons at the Canadian Stratford, Bedford reclaimed his British classical birthright.
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:08PM'I remember looking at the Die Hard posters outside my local movie theatre. You never expect to see an old schoolfriend emblazoned as a movie star'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:42PMCould the confederation hip-hop musical phenomenon become a classic? I think it might
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:20PMThe year ahead will bring a mix of old and new productions
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:39PMSmall has been accounted beautiful for many years now, but 2015 is the year in which it seemed more beautiful than ever
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:21PMTwo anniversaries meet. Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre is 50 years old this year, and Mordecai Richler’s Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang is 40, at least in book form
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:44PMThe great thing about Bruce Norris’ plays is that they contain no sympathetic characters
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:25PMRichard Rose’s production has a spare, versatile set by Camellia Koo, and a top-notch cast giving top-notch performances
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:14PMWhat seems to be in question here is cultural appropriation, the ultimate straw-issue
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:38PMDavid Ferry excels with a study in watchful desolation that withstands the closest scrutiny
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:48AMButcher is a devilishly clever piece of work, and it’s almost impossible to describe without giving too much away
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:44PMA dead author’s intentions may be unknowable but a play’s logic isn’t — and its identity can be surprisingly flexible
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:57AMBut the fewer effects you use, the more powerful they can be, if you know how to use them
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:45PMThe play has been in various stages of development for several years, but this should probably be taken as its definitive version
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:25PMMarie Lou is a split-level play, literally so in Leblanc’s production, which gives us two characters upstairs and two down
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:13PM
