The Top Ticket: Three shows to take in Sept. 19 to 25 by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Screaming, laughing and dancing in your seat with Séance, JFL42 and Motown the Musical.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 9:00am on September 19, 2015☆⚑

Berry Gordy on the five most important songs of his career by Richard Ouzounian

As Motown the Musical opens in T.O., Gordy talks Smokey Robinson, Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 2:51pm on September 18, 2015☆⚑

Trevor Noah, sharing himself with the world by Richard Ouzounian

At his Toronto JFL42 performance and two days later on The Daily Show, Trevor Noah plans to be himself.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 2:45pm on September 18, 2015☆⚑

Christopher Abbott earns praise for James White by Richard Ouzounian

Actor known as Charlie on Girls plays difficult character in film, which is showing at TIFF.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00pm on September 17, 2015☆⚑

Our Last Tango tells famous tango couple's tale by Trish Crawford

Documentary Our Last Tango follows tango dancers Maria Nieves and Juan Carlos Copes

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 6:00am on September 17, 2015☆⚑

Stratford Festival Hamlet, three other plays join HD film series by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew and The Adventures of Pericles to be filmed this month, Love's Labour's Lost in October.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 5:32pm on September 15, 2015☆⚑

Who should star in Disney's Mary Poppins remake? by Richard Ouzounian

We have a few good ideas " and a few bad ones too.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 2:51pm on September 15, 2015☆⚑

Actresses are captivating in Pamela Sinha's Happy Place: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Play about the aftermath of sexual assault at Soulpepper until Oct. 17.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 2:07pm on September 14, 2015☆⚑

Five blind dates with Rebecca Northan by Richard Ouzounian

The star of the popular theatre show shares her impressions of her first five "dates" this time around, at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 1:43pm on September 12, 2015☆⚑

Kenneth Branagh opts for a simpler path " onstage and onscreen by Richard Ouzounian

As acclaimed actor, writer and director matures, he now prefers to let stories tell themselves, as he did with his latest hit film, Cinderella.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01am on September 11, 2015☆⚑

Actors maintain meta charm of The Play's the Thing: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

It's third time around for Soulpepper production of this classic that sends up the theatre and its denizens.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 5:08pm on September 10, 2015☆⚑

Empire an exhilarating, intimate night at the circus: review by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

With stunning performers, Spiegelworld lets audience get closer to the action than most circus shows.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 1:23pm on September 9, 2015☆⚑

The Top Ticket: Three shows to take in Sept. 5 to 11 by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

A real estate nightmare onstage, a comedy headliner and a clown on a Blind Date

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 9:00am on September 5, 2015☆⚑

Big Plans will delight, amuse and even horrify you: review by Richard Ouzounian

Andy Trithardt and Daniel Pagett take bold chances in Jeremy Taylor's black comedy, ably directed by Kat Sandler.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:07am on September 4, 2015☆⚑

Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford returns with new film and TV miniseries by Richard Ouzounian

The actor who played Nate Archibald in Gossip Girl returns with his latest movie, Mountain Men, and new TV miniseries Blood and Oil.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 7:00am on September 4, 2015☆⚑

The truth about Gillian Anderson by Richard Ouzounian

Actress has plenty of projects to talk about at Fan Expo Canada, between Hannibal, The X-Files and The Fall.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 6:09pm on September 3, 2015☆⚑

TIFF: 'I Saw the Light' actor Casey Bond talks about the Blue Jays, and how he went from the baseball diamond to the big screen by Trish Crawford

Centre fielder Casey Bond, who first acted in Moneyball, plays fiddle in Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light at TIFF.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 6:00pm on September 3, 2015☆⚑

Bicycle Opera heralds a new kind of ring cycle by Trish Crawford

A two-minute composition, played entirely on bicycle bells, is the way Bicycle Opera kicks off its opera program

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 4:15pm on September 3, 2015☆⚑

Time to mothball Varekai: Review by Richard Ouzounian

Wow factor we've come to expect from Cirque du Soleil sadly missing in this 13-year-old show.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01am on September 3, 2015☆⚑

Chandler Riggs on being Carl in The Walking Dead by Richard Ouzounian

"It doesn't surprise me anymore when characters die. We all have to be ready to die."

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 2:31pm on September 2, 2015☆⚑

Stratford Festival has its Shakespeare and Viola by Richard Ouzounian

Luke Humphrey and Shannon Taylor to play the lovers in North American stage preview of Shakespeare in Love.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 4:56pm on September 1, 2015☆⚑

The magic of Cirque du Soleil extends to its performers by Richard Ouzounian

Emily McCarthy, a gymnast in Varekai, in Toronto Sept. 2 to 6, loves everything about being part of Cirque.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01am on September 1, 2015☆⚑

Stratford Festival pays tribute to Colm Feore by Debra Yeo - Staff Reporter

Canadian-American actor, who has played more title roles at Stratford than anyone else, to be honoured at Sept. 28 gala.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 5:05pm on August 31, 2015☆⚑

Les Miserables star Kyle Jean-Baptiste dies in fall by Mark Kennedy

Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African-American and youngest person to ever play the role of Jean Valjean in "Les Misérables" on Broadway has died after falling from a fire escape.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 9:42am on August 30, 2015☆⚑

The top ticket: three shows to take in Aug. 29 to Sept. 4 by Carly Maga - Special To The Star

Plays about depression and cannibalism from Soulpepper and Storefront Theatre, and songs from Idina Menzel

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 7:00am on August 29, 2015☆⚑