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Director Ken Gass's new approach with female actors of varied cultural and ethnic backgrounds comes across as projecting the experiences of others.
YPT's version of the beloved musical also takes a welcome approach to casting, with Vanessa Sears playing Mary with winning crispness, writes Karen Fricker.
Last Day, Last Hour, about Sir Arthur Currie's libel suit against the Port Hope Evening Guide, is staged in the original courtroom where the trial took place.
Surprise, uncertainty, even risk are part of the experience for those who take the theatrical voyage that begins in Barrie, Ontario and ends in London, England three days later.
Sonia Rodriguez, Svetlana Lunkina and Heather Ogden all bring their own sensibilities to the title role in the John Neumeier ballet based on the Leo Tolstoy novel.
The gravity of Clare Coulter's performance begs the audience to lean in and listen closer, which is exactly what you want in a mysterious, ethereal messenger, writes Carly Maga.
In Kill the Poor, Walker's point is that folks who live marginally can't be reduced to 'you people' while he takes a sympathetic approach to a woman's extreme mental condition in Her Inside …
The Chinese dancers, some of whom are deaf, are focused on developing and perfecting their varied talents, writes Michael Crabb.
For the second year in a row, the Banff Centre played host to an international string quartet festival, bringing back successful ensembles from the international competition held more or les…
Season that included the Norman McLaren ballet Frame by Frame and the company's return to Paris ended $257,000 in the black.
At Theatre Passe Muraille, Janice Jo Lee inverts the 'identity play' in a sly new solo musical, writes Carly Maga.
PlayME's recordings of Canadian plays will be included in the new season of CBC Podcasts.
Clare Coulter, Maria Vacratsis, Brenda Robins and Kyra Harper, now onstage at the Young Centre, have about 15 decades of stage and screen experience between them.
Extension of 1973 cult rock musical marks the latest date that a show has run at the theatre festival.
Journalists Jesse Kline and Jesse Brown find the theatre production about the liberal/conservative ideological divide is an accurate microcosm of what passes for civil discourse today.
The story is a microcosm of something billions of members of the human race have gone through, but which Western society still tells us is not appropriate for polite conversation: what it's …
Despite its unflattering portrayal of a Jewish family fighting over an inheritance, Rabbi Edward Elkin tells Karen Fricker he sees merit in Bad Jews.
The play is acutely topical, even though it's been in development for nine years, writes Karen Fricker.
The characters in these plays, written by women, are not defined by predicaments in their lives and they don't feel the need to bare them in detail to an audience, writes Carly Maga.
Husband and wife left Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto after sexual harassment allegations against Schultz.
Fricker is honoured in the short category for a review of a Soulpepper production of Hosanna.
The dialogue is engaging in this comedic 18th-century romp about love, but the staging doesn't facilitate a lot of physical action, writes Carly Maga.
The French Baroque operas about two heroes who fall in love, with starkly different consequences, open first in Toronto Oct. 25.
The Will & Grace and Travelers star is happy to return to the Stratford Festival Oct. 30 with a musical he loves.
Marco Ramirez's powerful play is based on the real-life story of boxer Jack Johnson, who became world heavyweight champion in 1910, sparking race riots.
