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325 stories from news.nationalpost.com

Toronto's If/Then strings together expectations versus reality, but loses the thread by Robert Cushman

'Was my lack of interest due to my inability to follow both stories, or could I not follow them because I wasn't interested?'

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:58pm on April 19, 2016[SHARE]

Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical, wins Pulitzer Prize drama award by Nelson Pressley, Washington Post

Viet Thanh Nguyen won for fiction for his debut novel The Sympathizer, while the history prize went to T. J. Stiles for Custer's Trials

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:57pm on April 19, 2016[SHARE]

Financier Aubrey Dan returns to theatre world with new show, $5M donation to Queen's by National Post Staff

Dan's hopes of challenging Mirvish Productions for theatre supremacy in Toronto were dashed by a rough economy and the fact Dancap didn't control its own venue

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:07am on April 16, 2016[SHARE]

Halifax theatre alters Shrek musical after LGBTQ complaint over offending word used by Big Bad Wolf by Keith Doucette, The Canadian Press

Transgender theatre-goer walks out of opening-night show after mocking references to the wolf character being a cross-dresser, use of the word "Tranny"

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 5:26pm on April 14, 2016[SHARE]

A touch of Broadway in this Carmen, but the voices are opera-ready by Arthur Kaptainis, Special To National Post

'The rhythmic clapping of the clearly delighted crowd indicated that I was in the grouchy minority'

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 5:04pm on April 13, 2016[SHARE]

Tensions of the racial kind rise in Pulitzer winner Disgraced and of the Wilde variety in Judas Kiss by Robert Cushman

'Masks slip, the more painfully because neither man suspected he was wearing a mask to begin with'

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 11:07am on April 13, 2016[SHARE]

Ukrainian pianist Valentina Lisitsa returns to Toronto after TSO ban, lets her fingers do the talking by Arthur Kaptainis, Special To National Post

After the TSO banned Lisitsa for a series of provocative political tweets, the musician played a resounding set at Koerner Hall

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 4:27pm on April 11, 2016[SHARE]

Opera Atelier's Lucio Silla is old-fashioned opera seria, short on emotional evolution by Arthur Kaptainis, Special To National Post

This production reflected the virtues of the resourceful Toronto company and perhaps a few of the shortcomings

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 4:27pm on April 11, 2016[SHARE]

The cast of Second City's 'The Hotline Always Blings Twice' give their take on Drake by Sadaf Ahsan

With a knack for poking fun at all things 6, from the Jays to JT, we got together the cast of Second City's latest revue to review the 6 God, naturally

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 3:40pm on April 8, 2016[SHARE]

Shakespeare's language was so pithy and ahead of its time that it still peppers our everyday speech by Bernard Richards, The Telegraph

We are frequently jolted by a phrase so familiar that we think it could have been written yesterday

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 2:48pm on April 5, 2016[SHARE]

The illusion of foreign intelligence: Chimerica's stunning production can't quite make up for clichéd writing by Robert Cushman

'The clichés in the writing infect the supporting performances, of which several are mediocre and a couple downright dreadful'

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 2:48pm on April 5, 2016[SHARE]

Grand finale indeed for Verdi cycle in Florida, where matters of the stage are serious business by Arthur Kaptainis, Special To National Post

Verdi is taken very seriously by the Sarasota Opera, where the conductor Victor DeRenzi has been firmly in charge of matters artistic for 34 years

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 1:34pm on March 31, 2016[SHARE]

Brave, but foolhardy: In Blood Wedding, you can't see the actors for the trees by Robert Cushman

The marriage in Blood Wedding is cursed before it happens, and the play echoes that sentiment

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 7:00pm on March 30, 2016[SHARE]

'Stage work is hard for an old man like me': Jeremy Irons on his return to the stage by Jasper Rees, The Telegraph

'Should I have put back more into English theatre than I have? In truth I never really had the desire to'

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 7:00pm on March 30, 2016[SHARE]

'I'm not writing from theory': Playwright Ayad Akhtar on his Islamophobia-themed, Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced by Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press

'Twinned with the ill-fated events of our time... It speaks to the enduring, contemporary relevance'

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 7:00pm on March 30, 2016[SHARE]

Tarragon Theatre's You Will Remember Me is personal, familial and political by Robert Cushman

Even set in a province where memory is a fetish, the play doesn't work hard enough to establish its political dimension

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:38pm on March 30, 2016[SHARE]

'Standing firm in the face of rational thought': David Cross wants to make America great again, too by Jason Zinoman, The New York Times

Cross is at his best when he shifts into long monologues of resentment-filled dogma that spiral into increasing absurdity

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:07pm on March 29, 2016[SHARE]

'Filled with fear': The director and cast of Jitters give their top five methods for dealing with stage fright by Alison Broverman, Special To National Post

David French's 1979 play Jitters is back on at Soulpepper, and the cast could teach you a thing or two about learning to just breathe

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 2:10pm on March 15, 2016[SHARE]

Where it all began: What happened when Broadway's Hamilton returned to the White House by Peter Marks, Washington Post

Seven years ago, at a White House poetry slam, creator Lin-Manuel Miranda performed the first slice of the show for the Obamas

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 2:10pm on March 15, 2016[SHARE]

Robert Cushman: Factory Theatre's Salt-Water Moon is visually beguiling and meticulous by Robert Cushman

David French's play " premiered in 1984, set in 1925 - has two characters. Jain's version gives it three

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:28pm on March 3, 2016[SHARE]

Robert Cushman: This return to Grey Gardens lands a little flat by Robert Cushman

It was an esteemed show, if not quite a hit, on Broadway 10 years ago and has been brought to us now by Acting Up Stage

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:42pm on February 26, 2016[SHARE]

Robert Cushman: Making not-quite imaginary friends with Tarragon's Mustard by Robert Cushman

My condiments to the chef

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 4:31pm on February 23, 2016[SHARE]

Len Stuart, Emmy-winning co-owner of Second City, dies at 73 by Meggie Hoegler

A wildly successful entrepreneur, Stuart received two Emmys, 13 Emmy noms and an ACTRA Award for lifetime achievement

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 4:31pm on February 23, 2016[SHARE]

Re-writing the Bard: Jeanette Winterson and Howard Jacobson on their 'cover versions' of Shakespeare for Hogarth Press by Mike Doherty, Special To National Post

Winterson will share The Gap of Time, which revisits The Winter's Tale, while Jacobson's Shylock Is My Name will be his release

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:15pm on February 18, 2016[SHARE]

Mirvish Productions announces new Carole King musical and others for upcoming season by National Post Staff

Mirvish Productions announces five new musicals for the upcoming season

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 5:12pm on February 16, 2016[SHARE]
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