Filming the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble in India helped Dasgupta handle the unexpected death of his father, but soaring COVID-19 infections kept him from flying to London to shoot the November…
The production, one of the Luminato Festival's few in-person events, blends elements of an escape room with a murder mystery and live theatre featuring holographic actors portraying aliens.
With shows like "Women in Song: Strange Darlings" at the Aga Khan Museum on Oct. 2, FabCollab is getting back to live performances after more than a year of virtual concerts that gave work t…
'She's this great unifier,' says Fiona Sauder. The concert will use the 'connective tissue' of Parton's music to help audiences celebrate being together again.
With so much on its to-do list, how did the Tonys do? Jesse Green, The New York Times' chief theater critic, discussed the presentation " or, rather, the presentations: one on Paramount+ and…
For Akosua Amo-Adem, it's about being a Ghana-born Canadian, which she explores through standup comedy. Cheyenne Scott and Qasim Khan also perform in 'The Home Project.'
Toronto venue that started out as the Pantages in 1920 will now be the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre.
Instead of a five-days festival of live performances in Toronto, this year's event will not officially end until Oct. 29, with livestream offerings available until Nov. 5. And the artistic s…
Blake served as a youth advocate this summer on the Stratford Festival's "R+J," an adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet." Her role included helping 14-year-old Eponine Lee as Juliet engage with m…
Co-director Yvonne Ng couldn't take the gamble of indoor performances for the 2021 fest so it's a hybrid of live outdoor shows and virtual presentations.
Both festivals are staging productions this summer in which the N-word is used. To some Black theatre artists, removing the word isn't a solution: 'If you decide to cut that term, you decide…
'They were in a continent filled with Black people and all they did was moon at the princess,' the playwright says about the Season 1 episode. In 'Serving Elizabeth,' she revisits the 1952 r…
The theatre piece presents the climate emergency as a generational inheritance that baby boomers and Gen X-ers have passed on to today's youth, and channels the fury of Greta Thunberg and ot…
While telling a story about playwright Edward Albee, actor Martha Henry holds a photo up to the screen: A photo of Albee, looking intensely at the camera and stroking a white cat.
Mixed bill of four works from new and existing repertoire made for an emotion-charged event on the Harbourfront stage
Izzard returns to the CAA Theatre on Aug. 28 and 29 to perform standup and an adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," with her earnings going to Indspire, a national charity tha…
First in-person shows since March, 2020 will sample classic and contemporary ballet, take place on open air concert stage with patio-style tables
Shows including "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" and "Room" are scheduled to open within the next year, but theatregoers will have to wait until February 2023 to see "Hamilton" live in To…
The word "immersive" gets thrown around a lot these days, and in this case the description is merited: All of the elements of this production combine to place you at the centre of its distur…
'Although there wasn't a live actor in the room,' theatregoers 'were absolutely convinced that there was,' says British actor Stevenson, who even pulled her own feet out of the way so as not…
From Shakespeare in the Ruff (stray wild animals included) to Guild Festival Theatre, from a remount of 'Alphonse' to Here for Now Theatre in Stratford, from 'The Motorcycle Monologues' to a…
Denis Grignon got back on the horse of standup comedy for the first time since the pandemic began, but new COVID-19 protocols, mainly the Plexiglas shields surrounding the stage, made it a b…
Izzard, who is in Toronto shooting a TV series, will perform "Eddie Izzard The Remix: 1988-2018' and 'Charles Dickens' Great Expectations' for Mirvish Productions.
'It was written in 1986 … all of the characters were affected by residential school,' says actor Tracey Nepinak, part of the all-Indigenous cast of the Stratford Festival production.
Theatre under the canopies allows producers to make full use of the audience space in 'joyful, satisfying heartbreaking' return