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Filipino-Canadian director cast Black and Ojibwa actors in Theatre Passe Muraille production about an actor living with two farmers to research a play.
"Sci-fi is a fun genre to work in; it tests creativity, but it seems like it also tests audiences' patience. They don't turn up for it. You really have to make a world that audiences are wil…
New musicals based on the songbooks of the Temptations and Bob Dylan will also make their premieres on Toronto stages in the coming year.
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The 2018/19 bill also features a new play from Daniel MacIvor, the Toronto debut of Hannah Moscovitch's Edinburgh Fringe hit Old Stock and Kiviuq Returns: An Inuit Epic.
Short play about two women, a psychiatrist and her patient, bonding over their troubled pasts feels too contrived, writes Carly Maga.
Mirvish Productions has landed a major theatrical coup, bringing the Best Musical winner to the Royal Alexandra Theatre in 2019.
Play by David Yee, in which two actors manipulate figurines projected on a screen, explores a Chinese mall in all its cultural, linguistic and generational diversity,
An intermission was axed, songs were cut, a new one was added and a Broadway hit was born. As the Canadian cast of Come From Away makes its Toronto premiere, we talk to the creators about ho…
They were among the thousands diverted to Newfoundland on 9/11. But their lives changed again unexpectedly thanks to the hit musical Come From Away.
Deeply personal standup set on Netflix is a revelation, writes Johanna Schneller, as the veteran comedian shares his own experience with infidelity and the aftermath.
With sustained critical praise and box office draws and the official seal of approval from our U.S. neighbours, the opening matinee audience cheered with unabashed pride, writes Carly Magda.
Some references in Jez Butterworth's play about the state of England didn't register, but its magical realism fits well on the otherworldly set created inside Toronto's Streetcar Crowsnest.
The show was first presented at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris. Now it was Toronto's turn to see a show worthy of any royal palace in the world.
Play now on at CAA Theatre doesn't look as lavish as one would hope, but fine performances and a well-paced production do justice to Mike Bartlett's script.
It includes new work by Betroffenheit creators Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young, Kim Collier and Daniel Brooks, Peggy Baker and Arcade Fire members, and a Jordan Tannahill-Akram Khan collabor…
The ballet is by John Neumeier, whose Nijinsky the company toured to Paris last year.
Sons of Anarchy's Kim Coates stars in Jerusalem, at Streetcar Crowsnest, as a countercultural folk hero who lives in a battered trailer in the forest.
Play's racial themes are all too relevant, and it gathers steam in the second half, writes Karen Fricker.
Hamiltonian says motherhood got her ready as previews begin soon for her role as the ice princess in Disney's Broadway adaptation of the massive hit film.
The play, from director Falen Johnson, features many compelling elements and performances. But at 70 minutes, Ipperwash feels both too full and lacking in detail, Carly Maga writes.
There's also beauty and humour in Jackie Maxwell's staging of Stephen Karam's play, but size of the theatre keeps audience at a distance.
Tapestry Opera's offering is too abstract to really engage us with the characters, writes John Terauds, but the fresh ideas and Persian-flavoured music are both to be applauded.
New play at Passe Muraille can't reconcile its dramaturgical impulses or the directions in which the story heads, but the characters and their experiences are fresh and intriguing, writes Ka…
Efforts to modernize Mozart's tale overwhelm and wreck it instead.
