The Shaw and Stratford festivals have been busy adapting the C.S. Lewis story and the Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur comedy for modern audiences, writes Carly Maga.
Movie musical personalizes the sacrifices of immigrants and labour leaders in Winnipeg, some of whom died and several of whom were arrested in a police crackdown.
Part of the reason that Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1779 play still resonates is that it resists the impulse to make its characters unrealistic moral symbols, writes Carly Maga.
Principal dancer is set to take the lead in The Merry Widow, her last ballet with the esteemed company after joining more than 20 years ago.
The script assumes an audience will be so familiar with the story from the novel that what unfolds is like a play in the form of a connect-the-dots drawing, writes Carly Maga.
Playwright and director counter the story's darkness with a strong sense of humour that runs throughout.
Robert Markus goes for a walk with Debra Yeo and talks about getting the 'behemoth of a role' and the Stratford Festival show that kindled his love of musical theatre.
The culmination of Susanna Fournier's Empire Trilogy gives up control (narratively, physically, historically) to restore a bit of hope to a dark world, writes Carly Maga.
The Lion King enthralls with its design, music and performance while Mormon delivers risqué material 'with a heart,' theatre experts tell Karen Fricker.
The entire audience at the July performance will be invited to down a shot of screech (or ginger ale) and kiss a plastic cod.
Busy Kate Hennig's plays, with their contemporary language, make us see historical figures in a more sympathetic light. That's just one thing she working on, however.
Sergio Trujillo said he had never spoken publicly about his own illegal history
"This award is for every kid who is watching tonight who has a disability, who has a limitation or a challenge, who has been waiting to see themselves represented in this arena," Ali Stroker…
The production of Shakespeare's tragedy is also an exploration of racism and corrosive masculinity.
Nigel Shawn Williams aims to unravel patriarchy, misogyny, and our 'enforced states of being.'
The marriage of the material realities of live theatrical staging and the formal conventions of screen media clash because audiences' familiarity with the latter are likely to make them impa…
It's we who illuminate Burkett's marionettes with flashlights. It's we whom Burkett entrusts with handmade hand puppets. And it's we who decide (or not) to buy into his interweaving stories,…
The 6th Man Collective, whose weekly basketball games have grown into an interactive play that weaves the sport with their personal stories, are happy to have their performance come in confl…
Cultural tradition of African drumming underlies KIRA, The Path | La Voie, which is described as a celebration of humanity "as one village and its sacred bond to nature."
Canadian Martin co-authored the book for The Prom, about four out-of-work Broadway stars confronting homophobia in a small Indiana town.
Isaiah Bell's Toronto show hits universal notes.
Nominated for 14 Tony Awards, the most of any production, Hadestown should, if there's any justice in the Broadway universe, take home the evening's top prize.
Angela Murdoch and her company Lookup Theatre turned the true story of a battle between Toronto Orangemen and an American circus troupe into a circus-comedy hybrid playing Sterling Rd.
After 25 years as artistic director, and another 15 as a dancer with the company, House tells Michael Crabb he's ready to try something new.
Shakespeare's prank-filled comedy is chockablock with gags with diminishing returns, but Antoni Cimolino swaddles the characters with empathy, writes Carly Maga.