There are many metaphors you can lay overtop the parable of a man-eating plant manipulating a meek flower shop clerk into feeding it corpses in exchange for the love of his co-worker.
Fun new Stratford production of Noel Coward classic doesn't underline the camp qualities, but they're amply present, all the same.
Demanding, 'ferocious' creativity of choreographer William Forsythe gets fitting tribute with big show starting Saturday at the Sony Centre.
Jonathan Goad plays Henry VIII as rock star; Irene Poole's Katherine of Aragon leavens the sexism in the play and Rod Beattie fully commits to the role of Wolsey, writes Karen Fricker.
Stratford Festival production lives up to festival's standards of and high-level execution and lets Donna Feore do what she does best: large-scale production numbers with kinetically inventi…
The young actor's parents and two brothers moved from Vancouver to Ontario for a year so he could star in Billy Elliot the Musical at the Stratford Festival.
Never mind that, like some grand Civil War re-enactment, his current standup show had no spontaneity, no audience interaction, no cutting-edge, dangling-on-a-high-wire punch lines. You still…
In Nigel Shawn Williams' hands, racism and misogyny foreground the jealousy traditionally seen as the primary theme of Shakespeare's Othello, writes Karen Fricker.
Canadian Opera Company and Soulpepper have the most nominations overall as the Doras celebrate their 40th anniversary and introduce gender neutral performance awards.
Organization's former creative producer follows in footsteps of her mentor Franco Boni.
If you didn't enjoy the film adaptation, it's likely because it sapped any hint of Tracy Letts' humour. In the Soulpepper version, the laughs keep you chugging along and then the drama hits …
The first act of Bernard Shaw's play bounces along with the charm of the cast, although the second act loses steam, writes Carly Maga.
The Shaw production of the Lerner and Loewe musical has an updated book but still relishes the Golden Age excess of the music and dancing, writes Carly Maga.
Joanne Sarazen's play gets major points for imagination but loses the plot in its own make-believe world, writes Carly Maga.
The most compelling moments of The Bathtub Girls, now on at the Assembly Theatre, rely on movement instead of text to communicate a growing sense of dread, writes Carly Maga.
The two-part play, written by Jack Thorne, J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany, features a grown-up Harry, now married with three children. It will be staged at Toronto's Ed Mirvish Theatre.
R&B singer is joined by star soprano Measha Brueggergosman in reimagined staging of Tony Kushner-Jeanine Tesori musical.
Dear Evan Hansen's Robert Markus wins Best Performance in a Musical and Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story takes Best New Musical.
'Can a desecrated site retain its sacredness?' Jani Lauzon recounts her journey to the Mojave Desert to find out.
The poetry of a real-life man labouring in inhumane conditions is set to music in I swallowed a moon made of iron, at Berkeley Street Theatre.
Founded 18 years ago as festival of five short plays, the Paprika Festival has grown into an organization supporting young and emerging artists year-round, culminating this year in a weeklon…
What would you rather fight: societal norms or a man-eating Venus flytrap? See how the Stratford Festival's two marquee musicals match up
Dan Chameroy, the Stratford Festival's Dr. Frank-N-Furter from last year's The Rocky Horror Show, returns as another screamingly funny eccentric in Little Shop of Horrors. But it's his role …
Boni reflects on 16 years spent building up local festivals, binding the Theatre Centre to its neighbourhood, and giving it a proper home.