Lepage's Kanata is a play examining relations between whites and Indigenous people but was criticized because no Indigenous cast members were cast in it
'How is it that a troupe of French actors are going to portray Indigenous Americans? We're not in the age of blackface,' said sociologist Guy Sioui Durand
Just stop already. "Each joke is played with a knowing wink, with countless call-backs to episodes of yore. It's reminiscent of a breaking of the fourth wall, but done in a fashion so grand …
"We have been friends for years, our families have stayed with each other and I believed we were close," James White wrote to Marlowe Goring after his visit. "That is why I have tried to bel…
Come From Away's return to Toronto marks the latest success in a remarkable year for the show's creators, Irene Sankoff and David Hein
Robert Cushman: Will these crazy experimentalist directors stop at nothing?
Robert Cushman: The first act is tight, but the second, though still entertaining, feels as if the authors are making it up as they go along
Robert Cushman: The show's ending returns, abruptly, to its beginning, but nobody's perfect
Robert Cushman: In Middletown, which has only two acts, the memento mori is emblazoned from the start
Robert Cushman: The production suffers, for me at least, from comparison to Laszlo Marton's superb Soulpepper staging
Robert Cushman: A play that without any directorial forcing proves astonishingly prescient of the present moment
Lewis passed away Sunday morning of natural causes at age 91 in Las Vegas
The bear is, in all his charm and majesty and significance, a triumph for the author's ambition and imagination
The Shaw Festival's An Octoroon is the Canadian premiere of an off-Broadway sensation from 2014
Lewis passed away Sunday morning of natural causes at age 91 in Las Vegas
Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford " There has been, in the last 60 years or so, a renaissance of Renaissance drama. The plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors, long eclipse…
Summerworks Performance Festival runs until August 13
Robert Cushman: Euripides' play, by common consent his greatest, was also his last (or last but one). It premiered in old Athens in 406 BC, following the death of its aged, exiled author
Robert Cushman: Its story, though, runs out of steam, even at a playing length of just over an hour
The Virgin Trial is a sequel to The Last Wife, Hennig's play about Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth and final queen
Robert Cushman: But the play, by the author's own admission, makes no attempt to assess whether, as legend has it, Canadian identity was really forged at Vimy
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical begins with King at Carnegie Hall in 1971, all set to give the live premiere of the songs from her album Tapestry
Robert Cushman: Down in the Distillery District, the company known as VideoCabaret have been reviving and revising their strip-cartoon national epic
Robert Cushman: Who wants to go up against Come from Away? Well, somebody has to and some things have, from the estimable Passing Strange to the deplorable Matilda
Robert Cushman: Antoni Cimolino's production is the only one I've seen to turn the theory into practice; to make the screen scene the great moment in English comedy that the books say it is