February 20, 2017

“Once upon a time there weretwa queens on the wan green island, and the wan green island was split intae twa kingdoms.”

February 8, 2017

Actor Anna Galvin does a fine job of portraying Queen Elizabeth II in her adult years from her brisk, slightly bristly manner right down to her sensible shoes.

February 3, 2017

Bring out all the superlatives that can be mustered: Odysseo is awesome, spectacular, fabulous, beautiful, heart-stopping, magical and ethereal.

February 3, 2017

Whether you should leave the gun and take the cannoli or vice versa is the only thing you should worry about when you watch Classic Chic’s all-female stage production of ...

January 31, 2017

They are now as ubiquitous as the social media platforms that serve as their launching pads: polarizing political debates, xenophobia and the ever-looming threat of Big ...

January 30, 2017

I don’t remember ever thinking William Faulkner spun good yarns. But that’s what Toronto’s Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s physical theatre adaptation of Faulkner’s novel, As I Lay ...

January 23, 2017

After seeing the off-Broadway premiere of Sunday in the Park with George in July 1983, composer Leonard Bernstein sent a note to Stephen Sondheim calling the show “brilliant,...

January 20, 2017

David Bloom won’t hold it against you if you don’t see his new play. Wait for Godot or see if the salesman lives this time and you’ll risk no ill will from the former ...

January 16, 2017

There’s no good season for war. Broken bodies, broken hearts and broken minds are shipped back to their loved ones in spring, summer, fall and winter.

December 22, 2016

The year kicked off with the effervescent Blackbird Theatre production of The Rivals. Everyone’s favourite character in this 18th century comedy is Mrs. Malaprop and, almost ...

December 19, 2016

If your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews have all grown up, take the child-you-used-to-be to Mary Poppins: The Broadway Musical directed by the Arts Club’s ...

December 9, 2016

“Jacob Marley was dead.” In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol we know that Ebenezer Scrooge’s business partner is “most sincerely dead,” but we don’t know why he comes back ...

December 5, 2016

When Kevin Kokoska looks in the mirror, it becomes an exercise in existentialism.

December 5, 2016

It’s hard to say who the creeps are in Creeps, written in 1971 by the late Canadian playwright David Freeman. Certainly the five men disabled by cerebral palsy (CP) and ...