Opera Atelier remounts a triumphant Armide by Colin Eatock

Originally staged in 2005, the company’s production of this baroque opera doesn’t have any weak links

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 2:38pm on April 18, 2012☆⚑

Performance group wants apology from Calgary theatre by Marsha Lederman

Shen Yun Performing Arts says it was treated with disrespect by staff at the government owned Jubilee Auditorium

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 7:18pm on April 16, 2012☆⚑

Quiara Hudes wins Pulitzer for play about Iraq war vet by Mark Kennedy

Quiara Alegria Hudes’s play Water by the Spoonful takes 2012 Pulitzer prize for drama

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 3:27pm on April 16, 2012☆⚑

These b-boys and girls belong on the stage by Paula Citron

Hip-hop troupe challenges the conventions of high art

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:34pm on April 15, 2012☆⚑

Prisoner of Tehran compelling, but too fast-paced for its own good by J. Kelly Nestruck

Marina Nemat’s extraordinary memoir has been adapted for the stage by Maja Ardal

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:57pm on April 12, 2012☆⚑

Canadian theatre finally takes on the Afghan war by J. Kelly Nestruck

While American and British playwrights have already mounted plays about the post-9/11 wars, all has been quiet on the Canadian theatrical front. That silence is about to be broken as three n…

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:36pm on April 11, 2012☆⚑

When opera becomes a family affair by Colin Eatock

Second-generation singers see their inheritances as both enriching and challenging

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 3:44pm on April 11, 2012☆⚑

Beautiful singing, but Tales of Hoffman are really musical sugar by Tamara Bernstein

Great performances across the board in The Tales of Hoffman, but the music director missed the light touch and irony of the style

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 3:40pm on April 11, 2012☆⚑

A new life for Ignatieff's powerful Alzheimer's novel by Marsha Lederman

The former Liberal leader’s political career may be dead, but his Booker Prize-nominated novel is very much alive and now comes to the stage

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 6:05pm on April 10, 2012☆⚑

Robert Lepage's the Ring draws fire in New York by Michael Posner

A Canadian superstar is blasted by critics for a $16-million Ring cycle that tests the balance between soul and spectacle onstage

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:01am on April 7, 2012☆⚑

Was Spring: Women of different generations tell a story that doesn't quite add up by J. Kelly Nestruck

There are three actresses in Daniel MacIvor’s new play, but it’s soon apparent there’s only one real character

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:00pm on April 6, 2012☆⚑

Clybourne Park: Two generations of race, class and real estate angst by J. Kelly Nestruck

Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park examines two generations of race, class and real estate angst

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:30pm on April 6, 2012☆⚑

Alberta Ballet to create dance work based on k.d. lang's music by Marsha Lederman

Jean Grand-Maître choreographing Balletlujah!, a full-length ballet based on the Alberta native’s music, to open in 2013

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:30pm on April 5, 2012☆⚑

Ajax & Little Iliad: Timely and well-told lessons by J. Kelly Nestruck

Two short plays derive their plots - and current relevance - from ancient Greek tragedies

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00am on April 5, 2012☆⚑

Playwright Daniel MacIvor's unlikely muse by Kate Taylor

He has written more than six roles for his long-time friend and collaborator, Caroline Gillis

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 1:56pm on April 2, 2012☆⚑

How Olivier Choinière committed theatrical 'rape' by J. Kelly Nestruck

A Quebec playwright is taking heat for setting one of his MP3-guided ‘podplays’ in the balcony of a theatre where another production was unfolding onstage

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 6:00pm on April 1, 2012☆⚑

Bliss: A disturbing tale about our obsessions by J. Kelly Nestruck

Olivier Choinière’s play previously mounted at SummerWorks comes to the stage of Buddies in Bad Times

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:30pm on March 30, 2012☆⚑

Wooster Group's Vieux Carré an experimental triumph by J. Kelly Nestruck

With this ambitious re-staging of a Tennessee Williams play that flopped when it first appeared, the New York theatre troupe plays tricks with our memory

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 3:49pm on March 29, 2012☆⚑

Cuffed in a refugee camp, this naive Canadian is the only one held captive by Martin Morrow

In the wake of Kony 2012, a vital message about Africa’s stolen children finds a lacklustre champion

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 2:12pm on March 28, 2012☆⚑

National Arts Centre names Jillian Keiley as new artistic director by J. Kelly Nestruck

Keiley founded Artistic Fraud company in St. John’s

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:53pm on March 27, 2012☆⚑

Alberta Theatre Projects to stage new Hawksley Workman musical

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SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:26am on March 27, 2012☆⚑

Q&A: Kate Valk on the Wooster Group's Vieux Carré by Carly Maga

An experimental New York theatre group brings an innovative production of a Tennessee Williams play to Toronto’s Harbourfront

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 2:59pm on March 26, 2012☆⚑

Willy Loman can still make grown men cry by J. Kelly Nestruck

A Broadway revival shows off Philip Seymour Hoffman’s acting talent, but an eight-hour Gatz is where the American Dream is really dissected

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:00pm on March 23, 2012☆⚑

At Grands Ballets: Hormones and stately grace by Paula Citron

Choreographer Stijn Celis delivers his takes on two Stravinsky classics, and a third work set to Chopin and Scarlatti

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:00pm on March 23, 2012☆⚑

Will this Jesus Christ be a New York superstar? by J. Kelly Nestruck

The Stratford show’s Judas, sidelined during previews due to illness, makes a comeback just in time for the Broadway opener

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:00pm on March 23, 2012☆⚑