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Treading lightly is a bad choice in this musical venerating dance music, writes Carly Maga.
This spectacular and compelling dance-drama by Alexei Ratmansky for the National Ballet of Canada has a real-life urgency that emphasizes the story's timeless relevance, writes Michael Crabb.
The usher recently worked at two Broadway theatres, at performances of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," and British musical "Six."
Broadway's leaders say they are determined to keep their theatres open if at all possible, and anticipate that they would collectively close only if ordered to do so by a government agency.
Show in Toronto reunites team behind 'Jersey Boys.'
Good grief? It's good for a laugh, anyhow, at 'Dead Parents Society,' doing three nights this week at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival.
Fiona Reid and Sara Farb will star in 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' at the Ed Mirvish Theatre along with Canadian theatre stalwarts like Trevor White, Gregory Prest, Sarah Afful and Tr…
The actor is constantly in motion in the solo show about a member of Israel's ZAKA disaster volunteer group, now onstage at Tarragon Theatre.
The Newfoundland-set musical was slated to open in China this spring.
The actors in the top roles from 'Hamilton' talk about how they got here and the noise they'd like to hear from their Toronto audience.
'Us/Them' portrays the aftermath of the 2004 Beslan school siege from the viewpoint of two children. 'The Events' looks at how the 2011 mass shooting in Norway affected a community.
In 'Box 4901,' Francis at 49 replies to the 13 men whose letters he never answered in 'a hilarious, strange, sweet and awkward look back at how gay men used to find one another.'
Opinions vary as to why. Is it the challenges of the staging, a second act that some consider weak or the fact it's about artists and making art?
Pite's new work brings out the best in the National Ballet of Canada's dancers while Greta Hodgkinson brings tragic dignity to 'Marguerite and Armand' as a dying courtesan.
Whether it's the lack of context for the Beslan siege in Toronto or the random through-line of the narrative, having children narrate the tragedy feels a bit deflated, writes Carly Maga.
New Mirvish season also includes 'Jesus Christ Superstar' revival and Phantom followup 'Love Never Dies'; pop musical '& Juliet'; World War II play 'Pressure' and Agatha Christie's 'Murd…
Farewell seasons hardly get better than the one Greta Hodgkinson has had. She ends her career as a National Ballet principal dancer with the title role in Frederick Ashton's 'Marguerite and …
Gilbert's new play portrays an older gay man and a younger transgender man 'in a bit of a battle with each other,' he tells Carly Maga.
"Come From Away," "The Band's Visit" and the new Broadway revival of "West Side Story" are among recent shows forgoing the traditional break.
For Carly Maga, both the 1995 Alanis Morissette album and the Broadway musical it spawned are personal " but she's happy to share them with women too young to remember the original songs.
While the play is full of loss, the meta-story behind it is that of empowerment: nearly all the lead creatives and the entire cast are Asian-Canadian women, writes Karen Fricker.
Artists like Ophira Calof are disrupting the traditional construct of theatre space and its typical silent darkness with their 'disabled-ness'.
'How to Fail as a Popstar' is about how the author, visual artist, filmmaker and trans activist failed at what she wanted more than anything: to make it as a pop musician. But she'll always …
