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The fast-paced version has pleasing performances even if the running time renders part of the climax improbable.
Songs are so good and Christine Dwyer so strong in the lead that it's a bit hard to accept why she's with her lout of a husband.
This season's directors, Liza Balkan and Severn Thompson, tell Karen Fricker about the challenges of producing condensed Shakespeare in the great outdoors.
While some hope the drama will spur conversation about long-term care, others believe that seeing Wettlaufer's name "glamourized on stage" will only cause further pain.
Lighting, puppetry and funny moments differentiate The Stratford Festival's production from the 1984 movie.
Childhoods overlap when mother and son experience The Stratford Festival's production of the 1984 movie.
On top of the breakout solo shows and new musicals that populate the Fringe circuit, the Star's theatre critics have ventured into more unexpected territory of audio plays, mime and puppetry.
While the writing is overwrought by contemporary standards, the actors commit to the situation while director Peter Hinton-Davis infuses it with the politics of sex and gender circa 2019, wr…
Graham Linehan's written some great one-liners and the cast are zinging them well. What has yet to come together is the production's overall rhythm and tone, writes Karen Fricker.
Songs by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance and story changes fail to make film adaptation a hit.
Gilmour was the first female comic to win the Just for Laughs homegrown competition in Montreal in 2017.
Annual fest includes the Filipinx shows Through the Bamboo, Tita Jokes and Monica vs. the internet, while Kanto by Tita Flips will serve food at the festival hub.
As dance performances go, The Master and Form at the Whitney is slow and teasing. No one makes a jeté across the floor in the piece.
The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike shut down the entire city's economy with 30,000 workers refusing to work from May 15 to June 26, arguing for recognition of the labour union and for wages to…
In an exciting experiment, Berczes's production wonders what would happen if Tom's introduction wasn't an explanation of the rules of the game, but a man's " and an artist's " attempt to con…
Musical hitting Toronto next month was an inspiring, even life-altering gig for pop songwriter.
Fu-GEN Theatre Company's wildly ambitious show Fearless lets drivers around Markham pick up actors and experience theatre in their own vehicles.
Canadian Opera Company also scores with Eugene Onegin, the big winner in the opera category, as awards honouring Toronto's theatre community got handed out Tuesday.
As a hearing theatregoer, Carly Maga was put off-kilter by the musical, performed entirely in American Sign Language, but The Black Drum has other offerings for nondeaf patrons apart from it…
The show is returning for a limited run in New York celebrating its 10th anniversary, and the band is on board " finally.
Festival commissions three works from street dance choreographer Caroline "Lady C" Fraser, Montreal's Anne Plamondon and Ojibway choreographer Cody Berry.
Sean Dixon's play about the 'world's first animal superstar' revisits his life and death in St. Thomas, Ontario, writes Karen Fricker.
Artistic director Nina Lee Aquino resurrects theatre pieces emblematic of past Factory leaders and connect them with contemporary artists of colour, writes Carly Maga.
This song cycle gives us sheltering in a cave from a massive forest fire, who entertain themselves and us even as the threat of destruction grows closer, writes Karen Fricker.
