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New play's tale of an anxious boy's mystical adventure is endearing even if it's not revolutionary.
Opera Atelier's move does production no favours.
Playwright Johnnie Walker shows the audience his struggle over how to tell the story of a 2013 knife fight that sent Luke O'Donovan to jail.
Performers delve into legendary band's tensions, worsened by Phil Spector's manipulations, for new play Four Chords and a Gun.
Stars come to Toronto April 12 and 13 on their Now You See Them, Soon You Won't tour.
Bigre has made people laugh across Europe, but transporting it to Toronto brings an element of risk for Pierre Guillois, writes Karen Fricker.
Annerin Productions revives the musical featuring the music of Queen for a North American tour.
Soprano says there are very few roles she's done twice, but Elettra in Opera Atelier's Idomeneo is one of them.
New play is part of Lisa Ryder's efforts to rupture societal taboos around such experiences, which are widely shared and yet still not much talked about in the mainstream.
In 2018, the festival made a $1.9-million surplus and earned its highest ticket revenue in 10 years, in part due to the popularity of The Rocky Horror Show.
Presented as one act in about 90 minutes, the quickened pace of Soheil Parsa's adaptation lessens the characters' ennui and detracts from the play's sense of tragedy, writes Carly Maga.
Sina Gilani's rewriting of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis is fluid and mature, but the production's talkiness sometimes gets in the way of his ideas, writes Karen Fricker.
Local production of Broadway smash has found a worthy star in Robert Markus, to go with powerful story and songs.
Director Krista Jackson seems to be caught between making Lucas Hnath's play a farcical comedy or a serious living-room drama, writes Carly Maga.
Sing to Me Instead is Ben Platt's first major project since leaving Broadway's Tony Award-winning Evan Hansen in 2017.
For collaborators Martin Julien, Samantha Serles and Rae Johnson, the book presents a hard-won history of a distinctly Canadian type of theatre and its passionate beginnings.
A New Jersey high school has found itself the unexpected recipient of online acclaim and viral attention for its recent stage production of the 1979 science-fiction thriller.
The 2019-20 season features nine world premieres, including new works from Kat Sandler, Jason Sherman, Anosh Irani, Ellie Moon and Kenneth T Williams.
Musical about a teenager dealing with her father's death is at the Old Globe Theatre in the first U.S. production of Johnson's work.
Presented by new company Puzzle Piece, The Little Prince: Reimagined digs into deeper humanistic lessons around love, patience, connection and wonder with the novella's signature enigmatic s…
Cast members get individual chances to shine in show dwelling on life in Toronto now, notably the TTC and the real-estate madness.
The passing of a decade, actor and co-creator Meegwun Fairbrother's narrative choices keep his affecting message from having a bigger impact.
The Star enlisted some young theatre critics for the Mirvish presentation. Their reviews? It was 'good,' 'funny' and 'amazing'.
This isn't Ibsen's Nora but the one from Lucas Hnath's 'cheeky' reimagining of the characters in A Doll's House, Part 2.
