522 stories by "carly Maga - Theatre Critic"
New play's tale of an anxious boy's mystical adventure is endearing even if it's not revolutionary.
Playwright Johnnie Walker shows the audience his struggle over how to tell the story of a 2013 knife fight that sent Luke O'Donovan to jail.
Presented as one act in about 90 minutes, the quickened pace of Soheil Parsa's adaptation lessens the characters' ennui and detracts from the play's sense of tragedy, writes Carly Maga.
Local production of Broadway smash has found a worthy star in Robert Markus, to go with powerful story and songs.
Director Krista Jackson seems to be caught between making Lucas Hnath's play a farcical comedy or a serious living-room drama, writes Carly Maga.
For collaborators Martin Julien, Samantha Serles and Rae Johnson, the book presents a hard-won history of a distinctly Canadian type of theatre and its passionate beginnings.
Presented by new company Puzzle Piece, The Little Prince: Reimagined digs into deeper humanistic lessons around love, patience, connection and wonder with the novella's signature enigmatic s…
The passing of a decade, actor and co-creator Meegwun Fairbrother's narrative choices keep his affecting message from having a bigger impact.
Bitter grew up in Caracas and wanted his one-man show, now at Theatre Passe Muraille, to be about more than a gay man coming out, he tells Carly Maga.
Ghanian-American's play is remarkable for not only skewering petty teenage female power grabs, but for exposing their root causes as deeply serious, systemic and colonial.
In latest collaboration, Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young reimagine Nikolai Gogol's mid-19th-century play The Government Inspector.
As it begins previews in Toronto, composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, director Michael Greif and others talk about understanding the human story behind the production, writes Carly Maga.
Towards Youth pulls back director Andrew Kushnir's misplaced fear toward teens and reveals the humour, anxiety, thought, and, most importantly to Gallagher, hope, that affects their world vi…
As quirky, introverted Dougie, MacIvor reveals that the quirks mask a deep trauma: they're coping mechanisms in a small town that hides its pain, writes Carly Maga.
Other aspects were less successful but dance element at heart of show playing through March break grips its young audience.
The actors find the key to the humour and Pinter's cultural criticism in this 90-minute collection of short plays, writes Carly Maga.
Tales of boyhood from immigrants' son benefit considerably from more ambitious presentation at Toronto's Aki Studio.
Sting's orchestral score shows off the cast's divine vocals. He and the set by 59 Productions are reasons to potentially forgive the musical's missteps, writes Carly Maga.
The designer behind the woodsy set in last year's Jerusalem is converting St. Matthew's Clubhouse for Human Animals and the Don Jail for Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Eric Peterson is best at capturing Andre's childlike helplessness, culminating in a moving final breakdown, writes Carly Maga.
The two have collaborated on The Apocalypse Plays: A Legacy Project, the end of a trilogy that Lushington began in the 1980s, writes Carly Maga.
As Trickster, Marshall Vielle is a trustworthy guide through history and his sense of humour stops We Are All Treaty People from feeling too much like a lecture, writes Carly Maga.
The production fuses a Downton Abbey-like look at both the menial workers and famous guests at a nameless hotel with the jazzy sights and sounds of the 1920s, writes Carly Maga.
The main subscription series also features Tony winner The Band's Visit, Hello, Dolly!, the Toronto premiere of Piaf/Dietrich and the stage version of Emma Donoghue's Room.
It's rare to see an hour-long show so affecting that encompasses hundreds of years, many miles and several generations but feels intimate, immediate and personal, writes Carly Maga.
