The Stratford scuttlebutt: Is Shaw Festival star Deborah Hay set to defect to the Stratford?

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SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:57pm on July 19, 2011☆⚑

Berlin Blues: Belly laughs and provocative questions by Paula Citron

Dances with Wolves: The Musical is just one of the send-ups in Drew Hayden Taylor’s play about developers on a reserve

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 1:28pm on July 19, 2011☆⚑

Stratford’s Jesus Christ Superstar heading to California, then Broadway by J. Kelly Nestruck

Will start a month-and-a-half run at La Jolla Playhouse in November; move spurs more talk the production is Broadway-bound

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 1:13pm on July 18, 2011☆⚑

Stratford’s Jesus Christ Superstar heading to California by J. Kelly Nestruck

Will start a month-and-a-half run at La Jolla Playhouse in November; move spurs more talk the production is Broadway-bound

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 1:13pm on July 18, 2011☆⚑

Twelfth Night: Delightful moments in an overstuffed production by J. Kelly Nestruck

Twelfth Night

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:41pm on July 17, 2011☆⚑

Carrie Fisher’s hard-won pearls of wisdom by Brad Wheeler

The author of Wishful Drinking brings her one-woman show to Toronto

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:40pm on July 17, 2011☆⚑

Naked egos - and bodies - at Vancouver dance fest by Paula Citron

The Dancing on the Edge Festival offers a snapshot of what’s hot in Canadian choreography. This year they’re pushing big ideas

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:20pm on July 17, 2011☆⚑

Shakespeare's Will: In bed with the Shakespeares by J. Kelly Nestruck

At the Stratford festival, Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen’s imagining of the life of Shakespeare’s widow is juicy and well-acted, but is blunted by its subject’s status as …

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:00pm on July 15, 2011☆⚑

Stratford’s Titus Andronicus is electrical by J. Kelly Nestruck

Director Darko Tresnjak gives Shakespeare’s over-the-top revenge tragedy a darkly comic tone

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:00pm on July 15, 2011☆⚑

The Little Years offers a meditation on lost potential by J. Kelly Nestruck

The play also ponders the nature of time and whether it can really be wasted when we have so little control over it

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:48pm on July 14, 2011☆⚑

Guest post: Michael Healey on why artists should be worked up about SummerWorks

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SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:29pm on July 14, 2011☆⚑

The Summerworks affair: Cheap shots, at the expense of artists by J. Kelly Nestruck

PMO’s claim that a SummerWorks’ production glorified terrorism is not just wrong, the festival’s subsequent funding cut sends a chilling message

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 6:00pm on July 13, 2011☆⚑

Cheap shots, at the expense of artists by J. Kelly Nestruck

PMO’s claim that a SummerWorks’ production glorified terrorism is not just wrong, the festival’s subsequent funding cut sends a chilling message

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 6:00pm on July 13, 2011☆⚑

'The President' brings Lorne Kennedy's amazing motor-mouth back to Shaw by J. Kelly Nestruck

Lorne Kennedy sparkles as the fast-talking fixer in the Shaw Festival’s whirlwind comedy of quick changes and makeovers

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:03pm on July 11, 2011☆⚑

The President preps a cabbie for the upper crust in less than 60 minutes by J. Kelly Nestruck

Lorne Kennedy sparkles as the fast-talking fixer in the Shaw Festival’s whirlwind comedy of quick changes and makeovers

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 4:03pm on July 11, 2011☆⚑

Shaw’s Crichton fails to ignite class war by J. Kelly Nestruck

When the order of things is turned on its head and underlings are allowed to mix with their betters, the least you expect is some good drama

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 3:41pm on July 11, 2011☆⚑

Carrie Fisher revisits her personal star wars in 'Wishful Drinking' by Marsha Lederman Vancouver

In a hilarious one-woman stage show, the actor of Star Wars fame dishes about her celebrity parents and the fallout from their famous breakup

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 6:00pm on July 10, 2011☆⚑

On the Rocks: Shaw’s political satire still resonates by J. Kelly Nestruck

The limits of democracy, a Western empire in decline. Originally written in 1933, On the Rocks is still fresh

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 2:57pm on July 10, 2011☆⚑

Robert Lepage's 'Tempest' takes full advantage of natural setting by J. Kelly Nestruck

Staged in an outdoor theatre in a Huron-Wendat village, the play spills out over the thrust stage and flows deep into the woods

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:16pm on July 8, 2011☆⚑

Hometown: Six writers, six engaging and unpredictable journeys home by Paula Citron

‘Hometown’ consists of half a dozen short plays that explore the notion of what a hometown is

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 2:30pm on July 8, 2011☆⚑

Vimy: Patriotism blended with the horror of war by Paula Citron

Blyth Festival’s production pays loving homage to Vern Thiessen’s powerful play about the seminal Canadian battle

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:01am on July 8, 2011☆⚑

The Winter’s Tale: A rewarding way to pass a summer’s night by Martin Morrow

The man-eating bear is not the only reason to see Dream in High Park’s first-ever staging of The Winter’s Tale

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 5:55pm on July 7, 2011☆⚑

The Glass Menagerie: Soulpepper production mines the comedy by Martin Morrow

Soulpepper take on Williams’s tale of self-delusion and heartache eases off on the pathos

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 3:48pm on July 7, 2011☆⚑

Through a glass, not so darkly by Martin Morrow

Soulpepper take on Williams’s tale of self-delusion and heartache mines the comedy, eases off on the pathos

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 3:48pm on July 7, 2011☆⚑

Donny and Marie Osmond bring Vegas razzmatazz to Toronto by Paula Citron

With their live, interactive, heartfelt show, the famous siblings prove they still have what it takes

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 3:28pm on July 7, 2011☆⚑