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Sometimes funny, often touching production at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre explores the many ways women are made to disappear.
Anosh Irani crams a lot of deep themes into his cricket-themed play, but the humour falls flat and the production feels unfinished, writes Karen Fricker.
Award-winning playwright Dominique Morisseau "wanted to make sure that the show can speak to a generation that did not grow up on The Temptations."
Jukebox musical's story of the Motown hitmakers stuffs a lot of events and songs into show dominated all the same by the music " especially the talents of the performers.
XENOS, Akram Khan's last full-length work as a solo dancer came together with help of star Canadian writer Jordan Tannahill. It runs from Oct. 18 to 21 at the Bluma Appel Theatre.
New theatre leadership at Soulpepper and beyond are part of trend in Canadian theatre, one with a chance to connect with new audiences and artists.
Drag show inside tent at Passe Muraille doesn't communicate its identity perfectly, but Pearle's flock seems devoted all the same.
Thought-provoking play about online crimes, including child murder is very much of the moment.
The Toronto production will play eight benefit performances in a concert version in Newfoundland in January.
Leighton Alexander Williams' production delivers fabulous theatricality on what is surely not an enormous budget, Karen Fricker writes.
Hadrian's worst sin is in how seriously it takes itself and how slowly and ponderously everything moves, John Terauds writes.
Audiences in Moscow and St. Petersburg get a taste of Canada's premier troupe this week.
The much-lauded play about a girls' soccer team was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The star-crossed lovers at the heart of Shakespeare's tragedy get a second chance to put things right " or do they? " in new production at Young People's Theatre.
Rufus Wainwright and Daniel MacIvor spent years fine-tuning their ambitious new opera before its world premiere Saturday at the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto.
Popular theatre director Weyni Mengesha is returning to Toronto to take over the role left vacant after Albert Schultz's resignation.
Its creator, Erum Khan, says the play Noor's open rehearsals provide a new kind of energy as interested museumgoers drift in and out.
Show at Toronto's Young Centre doesn't lean on character or a linear story so much as the impressive musical talents of Motion and DJ L'Oqenz.
The dark comedy dramatizes the events surrounding an odd but true fact, that scientist Isaac Newton once stuck a sewing needle in his eye.
The play has some wry commentary on the art world but suffers from a muddled plot, an unlikeable main character and comedy that mostly misses, writes Carly Maga.
Offerings include critically acclaimed shows The Red Horse Is Leaving and 4 ½ (ig)noble truths.
Two-thirds of Sharon, Lois & Bram return to Young People's Theatre with Sharon, Bram & Friends, a concert of old hits and a few new tunes.
The castle is a natural fit for this campy attraction, but as truly chilling immersive theatre, it falls short, writes Carly Maga.
Toronto festival now has five days and two venues of entertainment " but the ticket price has stayed cheap.
The Canadian Stage's season opener is high-stakes theatre that fuses the destruction of the earth with the destruction of ourselves.
