In Like Mother, Like Daughter, real-life moms and daughters ask each other sometimes deep questions. Themes like the sacrifices that moms make rang true for Carly Maga's mother.
Longtime Toronto arts manager leaves Crow's Theatre, where she helped spearhead the campaign to build Streetcar Crowsnest.
Take the 17th-century story The Changeling, add melodrama, interplanetary warfare and lasers, and an esthetic debt to Star Trek and you have this Eldritch Theatre soap opera in space, writes…
We Keep Coming Back is part therapy session, part ethnography study, part storytelling, and part high-tech analysis of the many ways trauma embeds itself into family, national, and personal …
The gravity of Clare Coulter's performance begs the audience to lean in and listen closer, which is exactly what you want in a mysterious, ethereal messenger, writes Carly Maga.
At Theatre Passe Muraille, Janice Jo Lee inverts the 'identity play' in a sly new solo musical, writes Carly Maga.
Clare Coulter, Maria Vacratsis, Brenda Robins and Kyra Harper, now onstage at the Young Centre, have about 15 decades of stage and screen experience between them.
The characters in these plays, written by women, are not defined by predicaments in their lives and they don't feel the need to bare them in detail to an audience, writes Carly Maga.
The dialogue is engaging in this comedic 18th-century romp about love, but the staging doesn't facilitate a lot of physical action, writes Carly Maga.
Sometimes funny, often touching production at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre explores the many ways women are made to disappear.
Award-winning playwright Dominique Morisseau "wanted to make sure that the show can speak to a generation that did not grow up on The Temptations."
Drag show inside tent at Passe Muraille doesn't communicate its identity perfectly, but Pearle's flock seems devoted all the same.
Thought-provoking play about online crimes, including child murder is very much of the moment.
The star-crossed lovers at the heart of Shakespeare's tragedy get a second chance to put things right " or do they? " in new production at Young People's Theatre.
Popular theatre director Weyni Mengesha is returning to Toronto to take over the role left vacant after Albert Schultz's resignation.
Show at Toronto's Young Centre doesn't lean on character or a linear story so much as the impressive musical talents of Motion and DJ L'Oqenz.
The dark comedy dramatizes the events surrounding an odd but true fact, that scientist Isaac Newton once stuck a sewing needle in his eye.
The play has some wry commentary on the art world but suffers from a muddled plot, an unlikeable main character and comedy that mostly misses, writes Carly Maga.
Offerings include critically acclaimed shows The Red Horse Is Leaving and 4 ½ (ig)noble truths.
Two-thirds of Sharon, Lois & Bram return to Young People's Theatre with Sharon, Bram & Friends, a concert of old hits and a few new tunes.
The castle is a natural fit for this campy attraction, but as truly chilling immersive theatre, it falls short, writes Carly Maga.
The Canadian Stage's season opener is high-stakes theatre that fuses the destruction of the earth with the destruction of ourselves.
Season-opener at Tarragon, directed by the playwright, does powerful job of making Shakespeare's Othello tragically potent in 2018.
Artistic director's long run, ending June 1, began with company deep in crisis. It ends with the company secure but seeking a stronger brand.
As the opener of the Buddies 40th anniversary season, the world's oldest queer-dedicated theatre company, this new production of Gertrude and Alice takes inspiration from Gertrude Stein's ow…