The revised production of The Lord of the Rings that opened at the Drury Lane Theatre last night is not unlike a friend who's been hitting the Botox a bit too heavily. At first glance, they may seem sleek and lovely, but look closer and you'll find that everything underneath is frozen and unmoving.
Camelot comes back to the theatre where it began in 1960, rewritten by the author's son.
Lorne Kennedy and Goldie Semple, married for 30 years, share a pair of openings at the Shaw Festival.
I spend a night in the Splatter Zone at the Toronto production of Evil Dead: the Musical.
Audra McDonald goes for a record-tying fifth Tony Award for her role in 110 in the Shade, an adaptation of The Rainmaker
Toronto's Barbara Barsky shines as Mama Rose in West Coast production
Taking cue from Philip Akin, Stratford's Othello forsakes grandeur in favour of emotional honesty
There may have been worse productions of The Merchant of Venice than that which opened at the Festival Theatre last night, but it would be hard to imagine it. Mercifully, there have certainl…
I guarantee you two things about My One and Only, the brightly coloured, empty-headed bauble of a musical that opened at the Avon Theatre last night: you'll enjoy it while you watch and you'…
Wonderful moments aren't in sufficient enough supply during Susan H. Schulman's production, which generally tends to coast on a kind of Hallmark Cards energy for most of the evening.
You're doin' fine, Oklahoma! The jubilant production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that opened at Stratford's Festival Theatre last night is such a joyous, life-affirming affair that I guarantee you will sit there watching it with a permanent grin on your face.
In Edmonton, the playwright's the thing. The thriving Alberta metropolis has been designated "The Cultural Capital of Canada" for 2007 and although there are plenty of examples one could gi…
Summertime stagings of the Bard are running into hard times in Toronto.
Reviews of six recent Broadway-based CDs.
Brian Bedford reflects on his tumultuous life on the eve of his debut as Shakespeare's tragic monarch, King Lear, on Monday night at the Stratford Festival.
Richard Ouzounian and playwright George F. Walker visits sites reflected in what Walker calls his East End Plays, prior to three of them being revived as part of the Luminato Festival.
Festival overcomes challenges to make Saint Joan its season's centrepiece
The former Niles Crane speaks candidly on his new Broadway role, his love of acting and the terrible disease that has ravaged his family