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Robert Cushman: Maybe we're not meant to take it seriously and Shields is attempting the impossible " being ironic about irony
Robert Cushman: This Toronto season has brought us John, Father Comes Home from the Wars, The Realistic Joneses and now this. American playwriting is back on a roll
'If you're eating a piece of pie onstage and someone says, "Mmm! This is delicious," you'd better be eating it'
Robert Cushman: The author, who is also the director, hasn't found a style that would carry us with him
Robert Cushman: There are five actors in Five Faces for Evelyn Frost " two male, three female " and they hardly ever make contact
Robert Cushman: In the American play, everything is laid out on the surface; in the British one, the important things are happening underneath
Robert Cushman: The best to be said for her new play How Black Mothers Say I Love You is that a television spin-off is an unlikely prospect
Trust and teamwork are part and parcel of Odysseo, the largest touring equine show on the planet where 65 magnificent horses and 48 talented artists " riders, aerialists, acrobats, dancers a…
Robert Cushman: This play, by the rising young American playwright Annie Baker, lasts more than three hours but has no dull moments
Robert Cushman: There are supporting performances that I'm tempted to call the best I've seen in the roles
Theatres believe drama can help shape public understanding and conversation, in this case about an administration whose policies they find troubling
In retrospect, the earplugs handed out to audience members should have been a sign. Not to mention the choreographer's message, 'You have to vomit art'
Robert Cushman: The author was 25 when she wrote the play and it has the pretentiousness of youth without the excitement
Robert Cushman: At its end, Passing Strange succumbs to the kind of portentousness seemingly unavoidable in rock musicals
Robert Cushman: The Wedding Party is a new play by Kristen Thomson, staged by Crow's indefatigable artistic director Chris Abraham
Robert Cushman: Sequence belongs to the growing genre of scientific-mathematical-philosophical plays that proceed through argument, usually spiced with melodrama
Robert Cushman: The words, sung and spoken, and the music are the joint work of Anika Johnson and Barbara Johnston; near-namesakes but not related
And of course there are current Broadway shows we will be itching to see
Robert Cushman: Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli was the best new Canadian play of the year; Sunday, its double-bill partner, wasn't but was still worthwhile
Robert Cushman: In the concluding stages you forget the trappings and get caught up in the story, which I guess is the intention
From the obscurities of contemporary pop culture to the ubiquity of the classics, this guide will help keep you from looking like a total noob among the erudite in the new year
Robert Cushman: This Sleeping Beauty, recognizably a Ross Petty production even without Petty on stage, has many things going for it
Michael Shamata's adaptation of A Christmas Carol is spare and pared down, relying on the story itself to work its magic
Robert Cushman: Three narrative streams flow through the play, feeding into one another
When Zhuge Liang was given 10 days to produce 100,000 arrows for battle, it was the year 208 in ancient China. No machines could help the military strategist produce so much ammunition in a …
