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325 stories from news.nationalpost.com

'Less than great, but more than good': Stratford's Guys and Dolls is 'worth going a long way to see' by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: I will lay you odds that the superimposition of one time-frame upon another is one reason that this musical becomes what is known as timeless

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 9:04pm on June 13, 2017[SHARE]

Musically, Stratford's HMS Pinafore is 'irreproachable', rarely obscuring the fun of the original by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: At times, I thought the constant motion of all the characters actually helped the story; at others, I thought it got in the way

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 9:04pm on June 13, 2017[SHARE]

'This is about the right-wing hate machine': Theatre defends use of Trump lookalike as assassinated Caesar by Sadaf Ahsan

'Such discussion is exactly the goal of our civically-engaged theatre; this discourse is the basis of a healthy democracy'

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 3:04pm on June 13, 2017[SHARE]

Theatre loses corporate sponsorship after Caesar production depicts Trump lookalike being stabbed by Sadaf Ahsan

Delta Airlines and Bank of America both pulled their sponsorship from New York's Public Theater on Sunday

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 1:12pm on June 12, 2017[SHARE]

Canadian musical Come From Away wins Tony for best director, but Dear Evan Hansen takes top award by The Canadian Press

The people of Newfoundland were celebrated at the Tony Awards but Come From Away fell short in its historic bid to capture Broadway's biggest musical prize

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:42am on June 12, 2017[SHARE]

Trump lookalike assassinated in NYC production of Julius Caesar by Sadaf Ahsan

'For over 400 years, Shakespeare's play has told this story and we are proud to be telling it again in Central Park'

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 3:12pm on June 9, 2017[SHARE]

So often produced, Stratford's newest Romeo and Juliet may be the best of them all by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: It's no secret that Romeo and Juliet ends in a tomb. In Stratford's new production, it begins there as well

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:54pm on June 6, 2017[SHARE]

'If music be the food of love play on': Stratford's Twelfth Night offers music and words by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: The performance's execution lacks something in finesse, but the conception is an eye-opener

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:54pm on June 6, 2017[SHARE]

How can tap dancing, an art form that reached its heyday in the 1930s and '40s, remain relevant today? by Mike Doherty, Special To National Post

Mike Doherty: Finding one's own voice as a tap artist entails figuring out what, and who, have come before. Young dancers have much of the form's history at their fingertips

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 2:24pm on June 1, 2017[SHARE]

'From Russia with love': For Canadian musical Onegin, the story and the characters never come to life by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: The music, mostly melodic rock, can be very expressive. The lyrics, though, can't. They're often difficult to hear

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 7:12pm on May 30, 2017[SHARE]

United with an unlikely partner, Aubrey Dan is back in the Toronto theatre scene by Jack Hauen

The Toronto financier, philanthropist and impresario is reviving his efforts to bring a bit of Broadway to Canada's biggest city

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 9:33pm on May 25, 2017[SHARE]

'The staging may be stark and the stories dark, but they aren't gloomy': On Ntozake Shange's for colored girls… by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: It was, I imagine, like being in church, but more so. They had come to the theatre, and it was speaking their language

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 2:42pm on May 24, 2017[SHARE]

'Unbearably moving': Chris Abraham's The Boy In The Moon tells the heartbreaking story of parents of a disabled son by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: It is the best thing to happen so far in Streetcar Crowsnest's new East End home. Imaginatively presented on a bare open stage, it draws us into a world

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 5:12pm on May 17, 2017[SHARE]

Strictly Ballroom moves, but perhaps, perhaps, perhaps there were too many cooks in the kitchen by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: Those who know the film have testified that the reborn stage musical isn't strictly Strictly Ballroom at all

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 6:33pm on May 10, 2017[SHARE]

Great Comet leads 71st Annual Tony Award nominations, Canadian musical Come From Away major contender by Sadaf Ahsan

The ceremony will take place at on June 11 in New York City, and will be hosted by former Tony winner and generally hilarious guy Kevin Spacey

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 4:54pm on May 2, 2017[SHARE]

'A love story in the great tradition': Midsummer sends you away happy. Just don't ask about 'ever after' by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: The truth is there's been a healthy component of irony in the best romantic comedies, at least since Shakespeare and probably before

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 4:54pm on May 2, 2017[SHARE]

Ravi Jain's Prince Hamlet picks up where Shakespeare left off, to a 'mostly masterful' staging by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: Some things in this adaptation/production may be questionable, but everything feels thought and imagined

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 3:31pm on April 25, 2017[SHARE]

Coal Mine Theatre's Orphans appears gripping and clever, but offers limited depth by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: There's good and bad suspense; this play has both

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 5:54pm on April 18, 2017[SHARE]

Streetcar Crowsnest's True Crime proves Torquil Campbell can do it all by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: He can be hilarious, in modes silky or self-deprecating. He can be frighteningly angry. He can be just as frighteningly lost

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 7:02pm on April 11, 2017[SHARE]

Crafty, comical and self-mocking, Karen Hines's one-woman show Crawlspace will draw you in by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: Whenever you think that her 90-minute hard-luck story has outstayed its welcome, Karen Hines draws you back in

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 4:32pm on April 4, 2017[SHARE]

From political lampoons to inciting revolutions, how puppets get away with things humans can't by Sabrina Maddeaux, Special To National Post

Sabrina Maddeaux: They may often appear small, adorably fuzzy and googly-eyed, but these unassuming creatures are powerful political players

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 4:32pm on April 4, 2017[SHARE]

The more ground Sousatzka attempts to cover, the more it loses touch with what could keep it alive by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: It's also the return to producing of Garth Drabinsky, who gave us such masterful shows as Ragtime and Kiss of the Spider Woman

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 7:24pm on March 28, 2017[SHARE]

Introducing Stupidhead!, a small-scale one-woman musical and account of living with dyslexia by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: It's a show that has its share of wry self-deprecation, but is more about living with and even overcoming obstacles

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 7:24pm on March 28, 2017[SHARE]

A break in tone, style and subject alter an otherwise amusing production of The Orange Dot by Robert Cushman

Robert Cushman: Tension keeps us interested through dialogue that is generally easy-flowing and sometimes amusing

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 3:48pm on March 21, 2017[SHARE]

Justin Trudeau introduces play about Canada on 9/11 to Broadway audience including Ivanka Trump, Jean Chretien by The Canadian Press

Come From Away, which had its official Broadway opening on Sunday, is set in remote Gander, N.L., in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks

SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:54am on March 16, 2017[SHARE]
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