522 stories by "carly Maga - Theatre Critic"
Now on at Factory Theatre, this new play explores what happens when a mother leaves her daughters to seek a better life abroad.
Above all, A Reason to Talk is about where talking falls short.
Play is based on a website that publishes postcards bearing anonymous secrets. It's an earnest, intense show that can feel a bit like group therapy.
Soulpepper's The Odd Couple, the rock.paper.sistahz Festival, James Kudelka's Against Nature.
Fabrizio Filippo excels as both playwright and performer in ambitious production on at Tarragon Theatre.
James Lavoie crafts wardrobe reflecting elastic sense of time and place for Jordan Tannahill's double bill at CanStage
Play tells stories based on cards picked from audience. They're appealing, but the package is slightly unsatisfactory.
Nicolas Billon's Iceland, a Jordan Tannahill double bill and the SheDot Festival.
Young People's Theatre production written by Evan Placey tackles friendship, adolescence and inter-dimension transference.
Mary Vingoe's play about what happens to refugees who aren't warmly welcomed to Canada.
The mystery of Scarberia, indigenous dance and true crime improv in True Blue.
Volker Gerling's presentation of his flipbooks of strangers' photos is a measured, deliberate and endearing show.
In its third mounting, play about Canada's First World War history is some of VideoCab's best work.
d'bi.young anitafrika's latest performance depicts, through ritual and song, how the movement of racialized bodies has been supervised and policed.
Disgraced at the Panasonic, Killer Joe at the Coal Mine, and Matt & Ben at the Imperial Pub.
Main character Joe is much easier to root against than for in this Lucy Kirkwood play.
Bahram Beyzaie's play deals with a suffering family and the invasion of Persia.
The thriller Chimerica, confessional dance in Funny/Funeral, a slave's journey in Esu Crossing the Middle Passage.
The Hotline Always Blings Twice uses off-kilter, off-colour and hilarious humour to deliver some knockout punches.
New play takes a humorous look at three women working as civil servants in Ottawa.
