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Robert Cushman: Stratford has fruitfully twinned its production of The School for Scandal with Timon of Athens, casting mostly the same actors in another lampoon of society
Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone work so well together both because they each know each other and neither knows how to tone it down
Too often Broadway’s Spider-Man comes across as a Cirque du Soleil reject. No matter how airborne it seeks to be, it ends up painfully earthbound. Expensive pyrotechnics are no substit…
Cohl is positive, but cautious. Asked if they can make the investment back, he coughs up, “I sure hope so, but it’s showbiz. Who knows?”
Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol invites a sort of bean-counting, stock-taking and soul-searching this time of year, so we asked Canada's stage Scrooges to give us their opinions o…
Yes, Virginia, there is an opera called William Tell attached to the overture we love so well. And it is good enough to sustain interest in concert
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French geologist and paleontologist whose crucial scientific work was done before the Second World War. He was also a Jesuit priest
The Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio is almost literally a troupe of young singers waiting in the wings, appreciated in principle for their hard work in supporting roles but only occas…
Andy Kindler is a professional comic. Yes, it's a profession. Even if there's no stand-up comedy guild, no code of practice, no adjudication board
Mary Queen of Scots is a sovereign who has never lacked for theatrical attention. The James Plays are an ambitious attempt by a Scottish playwright and TV writer, Rona Munro, to even the odds
The acronym NSFW stands for 'not safe for work.' The play of which the acronym is the title has a further subtitle: Money, Sex and Photoshop
Jordan Tannahill was sweeping the grey-and-white checkered floor of Videofag " the arts venue he runs with William Ellis in Toronto's Kensington Market " when he won the Governor General's A…
Christopher J. Hanke was 18 years old and studying in London when he had what he calls his "aha!" moment
The plays are more successful at evoking a world than at making a point, but they still dazzle
The ballet's tragic ending leaves you feeling like your heart is about to explode
Welcome to the graveyard. You'll be amazed at how lively it is. Spoon River is adapted, by Albert Schultz and Mike Ross, from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Like most Catholics and most Victorians, Edward Elgar regarded death as a doorway rather than a terminus
'The historical novelist,' or so I once read, 'must necessarily turn history into romance, and romance will always lie with the deposed or threatened king'
Can this really be the first Opera Atelier staging of an opera in Italian by Handel?
About 400 people stood behind police barricades chanting "Shame on the Met!" and carrying signs saying "The Met glorifies terrorism" before the company's first performance of The Death of Kl…
It seems that hardly a show can open in Toronto that isn't a tribute to some troubadour or other
Not a night of bel canto. Verismo? Yes, especially after intermission. And Puccini throughout, which of course has everything to do with the indestructability of Madama Butterfly
'There's drama, there's humour, there's Hitler " it just goes everywhere'
Rebel Without a Cosmos doesn't match its predecessor, but it has its share of giggle-worthy gags
Despite its awful title, Julie Madly Deeply is a delightful show
