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Canadian actor looks forward to coming home in the role for a second time after four years on Broadway.
Stringing together one research example after another and interspersing them with vignettes about how hard it is to make art do not make a particularly meaningful contribution to the convers…
Venezuelan-Canadian Augusto Bitter's show at Passe Muraille marks him as a talent to be watched.
Bitter grew up in Caracas and wanted his one-man show, now at Theatre Passe Muraille, to be about more than a gay man coming out, he tells Carly Maga.
Ghanian-American's play is remarkable for not only skewering petty teenage female power grabs, but for exposing their root causes as deeply serious, systemic and colonial.
In latest collaboration, Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young reimagine Nikolai Gogol's mid-19th-century play The Government Inspector.
Playwright Lianna Makuch and her team have done a remarkable job tying together a journey in search of family roots with thoughtful commentary on present-day, war-torn Ukraine, writes Karen …
Australian show created by and for women of colour to showcase their story is in Burlington this weekend and Toronto in April
Ambitious choice by upstart theatre company to use jail as venue undermines the considerable gifts of cast.
Running Wednesday through Sunday at the historic site, the musical from the new Toronto-based Eclipse Theatre Company (ETC) is meant to be an immersive experience set in a venue that once ho…
As it begins previews in Toronto, composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, director Michael Greif and others talk about understanding the human story behind the production, writes Carly Maga.
National Ballet soloist Chelsy Meiss becomes the first woman to dance the role in the Christopher Wheeldon ballet Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
PM's mother says he hasn't reigned her in: 'His father couldn't. Why should he try?'
Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls deals with serious issues like shadism but also 'the loudness, the humour, the fun of African women,' the actors tell Karen Fricker.
Layers of structural problems throughout Canada's comedy industry have resulted in many comics living on shoestring budgets.
The Canadian-made musical about the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks in Newfoundland is tied for most nominations with Sondheim's Company.
The play by Ramones fan and Big Bang Theory actor Bowie makes its Canadian debut April 2. And no, it's not a musical.
It's called Revisor and if the rapturous reviews from its sold-out premiere run in Vancouver late last month are any guide, it's destined to become as big an international hit as its multi-a…
The fun conceit of Entrances and Exits is that five performers make up a theatrical farce on the spot based on audience suggestions.
Towards Youth pulls back director Andrew Kushnir's misplaced fear toward teens and reveals the humour, anxiety, thought, and, most importantly to Gallagher, hope, that affects their world vi…
Balanchine's Apollo opens the National Ballet of Canada's current mixed program and leaves its companion works with the unenviable task of even approaching the same ballpark.
As quirky, introverted Dougie, MacIvor reveals that the quirks mask a deep trauma: they're coping mechanisms in a small town that hides its pain, writes Carly Maga.
'Incorporating dance into complex text is like walking a tightrope,' says choreographer Dottor of her work with playwright and director MacKenzie.
Tense climate doesn't much change in show until March 3 performed at an intriguing Toronto site.
Other aspects were less successful but dance element at heart of show playing through March break grips its young audience.
