522 stories by "carly Maga - Theatre Critic"
Dance: Made in Canada Festival, Shakespeare in the Ruff and Bad Dog Theatre are on the Top Ticket.
This week's Top Ticket offerings including a concert aboard the River Gambler and a celebration of Filipino arts and culture.
Among the 10 shows we want to see: A talk with the departed, a summer sci-fi musical, performance art in progress.
ShawFest production of Dracula has humour, charming title character, but relies too heavily on vampire clichés.
A soundtrack titan comes to town and a wee music fest fills a void this week.
Actors don whiteface, blackface and redface in Canadian premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' headline-grabbing play.
A nimble neighbourhood, burlesque stars, and an indie between the fests are your leading theatre options.
Flipping the gender of the monarch, and subtler swaps among the rest of the cast, freshens the story. And there's one more change to come when Robert Persichini returns.
WWI play lends sympathy to characters and highlights the brutality of war, but its message doesn't feel new.
Also on the Top Ticket: Arj Barker of Flight of the Conchords fame at the Comedy Bar.
Despite weaknesses in script, Carole King musical pulls heartstrings with nostalgic songs and its lead performance.
From a play set in a washroom to ghostbusting Elizabethans to a monster mash in dance and a karaoke party.
Also on the Top Ticket, the PS: We Are All Here dance series and concerts by Bob Dylan, Ed Sheeran and more.
Tim Carroll's unorthodox direction elevates the performances as actors roll with audience-thrown punches.
Come From Away is Audience Choice winner, Soulpepper and Tapestry Opera take five awards apiece.
The collection of Oscar Wilde stories being staged at he Shaw Festival makes for much for interesting theatrical fare than the Disney-fied versions that sometimes take up space in the "child…
Open-air Bard, an old war story and the TSO vie for your eyeballs.
Dance opera premiering at Luminato focuses on aftermath of residential schools, 'where society can effect change'.
Final week of Buddies' festival, world's best hip-hop dancers and a second chance to see a SummerWorks winner.
Jillian Keiley's production of Bakkhai examines how nature and female sexuality are forever under the attempted control of mankind.
Jackie Maxwell brings time frame from 1600s to 1930s, and the comedy takes a back seat to abhorrent actions.
"It's our biggest idea ever," Amy Lee said from rehearsal with co-star Heather Marie Annis.
Also on this week's Top Ticket, Morro and Jasp in Stupefaction and the TSO stages Seven Deadly Sins.
Sara Farb and Antoine Yared aim to challenge audience expectations in their first Shakespeare leads for festival.
Turning Robert Louis Stevenson novel into a play while making room for technical elements means plot gets lost at sea.
