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The Robert Lepage-directed Coriolanus made theatre best-of lists for 2018 while Martha Henry earned praise for playing Prospero in The Tempest.
Wajdi Mouawad's play, now at Stratford, goes deep into the Israel/Palestine conflict and offers a profound experience of feeling and thought, writes Karen Fricker.
The Shakespeare play is a highlight of the 2020 season, which also includes a reimagined Chicago, directed and choreographed by Donna Feore.
Cross-gender and cross-racial casting bring it into 2019, but these interventions can't resolve the fundamentally cynical relationships in Shakespeare's problem play, writes Carly Maga.
The production has one of the most impressive casts in recent memory, but the audience is given no signposts to follow the story, writes Carly Maga.
The SummerWorks production combines a performance with an online game inside the Sanderson branch of the Toronto Public Library.
The Shaw's design, costume and makeup teams also deserve praise. And Kate Hennig has brought a welcome contemporary sensibility to the text, writes Karen Fricker.
New season will also include one play by Bernard Shaw, the comedy The Devil's Disciple.
Graham Isador returns to theatre festival with White Heat, about a journalist faced with alt-right hostility; Lauren Gillis brings Safe and Sorry, about pickup culture, writes Karen Fricker.
Longtime Stratford composer looked to his youth to inspire the eight original songs in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Lucille Ball and the Stratford of the '50s inspired Antoni Cimolino's spit-take of a production.
People want to come to the theatre to feel safe, says co-artistic director Diana Bentley.
As a producer, he helped created Damn Yankees, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Fiddler on the Roof. He became a director and helped shape Cabaret, Company…
Jam to the sounds of Jamaica, Grenada, Trinidad and T.O. at this year's Toronto Caribbean Festival
The lead actors in the Shaw Festival's production of Victory share their admiration for a play that's extreme but also 'incredibly human and funny'.
The music gives Shakespeare's text that extra flair that is a Driftwood Theatre signature, but the commentary on our social-media, phone-obsessed culture feels shoehorned in, writes Carly Ma…
Creators Bob McSmith and Tobly McSmith say you don't have to be a fan of the TV show The Office to enjoy the musical theatre version.
It may take more time for Cara Gee and Eion Bailey to flesh out their performances to fill the stage, writes Karen Fricker.
Laara Sadiq co-star in the marathon event is 100 amateurs, rotated in over the course of a full day at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre.
New staging of Lerner & Loewe show follows more troubling takes on Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady and more.
Margaret Trudeau has been fascinating people for decades, from the time she secretly married then-prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 1971 at age 22, to her unabashed tales of partying …
By setting the comedy in Ontario cottage country in 1999, director Liza Balkan helps us digest some story elements that don't fit with 2019 sensibilities, writes Carly Maga.
There may not be much time to contemplate the show's meaning, but there are plenty of fun surprises and challenges in show mounted in old Bloor St. video store.
