Wednesday, May 18, 2016
'Our first sight of the Shaw Festival’s Alice in Wonderland raises expectations and raises them high'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:43PMTuesday, May 10, 2016
'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 07:32PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
While Botticelli is creatively reimagined, Sunday in Sodom, despite its serious setting, feels jokey rather than witty
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:34PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
None of the other characters come to comparable life, while the text gives the actors little to work with
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:46PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
'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 06:58PMWednesday, April 13, 2016
'Masks slip, the more painfully because neither man suspected he was wearing a mask to begin with'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 11:07AMTuesday, April 5, 2016
'The clichés in the writing infect the supporting performances, of which several are mediocre and a couple downright dreadful'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:48PMWednesday, March 30, 2016
The 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 12:38PMThursday, March 3, 2016
David French’s play – premiered in 1984, set in 1925 - has two characters. Jain’s version gives it three
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:28PMFriday, February 26, 2016
It 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 06:42PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
Thursday, February 11, 2016
The 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 08:38PMFriday, February 5, 2016
The 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 05:14PMTuesday, February 2, 2016
The good in the play outweighs the bad, and the current Toronto production, which comes to us from England
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:07PMTuesday, January 26, 2016
It might be said that, in his many seasons at the Canadian Stratford, Bedford reclaimed his British classical birthright.
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:08PMFriday, January 15, 2016
'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 12:42PMWednesday, January 6, 2016
Could the confederation hip-hop musical phenomenon become a classic? I think it might
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:20PMWednesday, December 23, 2015
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Small 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 07:21PMFriday, December 4, 2015
Two 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 09:44PMFriday, November 27, 2015
The great thing about Bruce Norris’ plays is that they contain no sympathetic characters
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:25PMTuesday, November 24, 2015
Richard 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 02:14PMMonday, November 16, 2015
What seems to be in question here is cultural appropriation, the ultimate straw-issue
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:38PMMonday, November 9, 2015
David Ferry excels with a study in watchful desolation that withstands the closest scrutiny
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:48AMFriday, October 30, 2015
Butcher is a devilishly clever piece of work, and it’s almost impossible to describe without giving too much away
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:44PMMonday, October 26, 2015
A 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 10:57AMSaturday, October 24, 2015
But the fewer effects you use, the more powerful they can be, if you know how to use them
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:45PMFriday, October 23, 2015
The 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 03:25PMFriday, October 9, 2015
Marie 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 
