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Review: CICADAS at Tarragon Theatre
What did our critic think of CICADAS at Tarragon Theatre?...
Review: BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE/ERWARTUNG at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts
Even if you are lukewarm to early 20th-century avant-garde music and don’t care for Schoenberg’s serial composition music-baby, you are sure to be won over by the brilliance of these performers and the creative team....
Review: STRIFE at Tarragon Theatre
Anyone who’s spent ten minutes online in the past decade knows that we live in an age of anger and polarization when it comes to the issues and identities we hold dear. Stories abound about families who can no longer speak to each other or even share a meal, with jagged cracks in the foundations o...
Review: PELLÉAS AND MÉLISANDE at Koerner Hall
Opera Atelier’s 2025-2026 production of Claude Debussy’s Pelléas and Mélisande is a departure from the company’s production modus operandi that will leave a lasting impression on audiences and signal a new era of innovation for Opera Atelier....
Review: THE MOORS at The Theatre Centre
In Jen Silverman’s The Moors, the slightly deranged love child of the Brontës, Waiting For Godot, and Six, Emilie the governess (Blessing Adedijo) arrives at a manor amidst the titular plains to find that nothing is quite as she expected. Branwell, her supposed employer and warmhearted correspond...
Review: CYRANO at CAA Theatre
When it comes to adaptations of French playwright Edmond Rostand’s romantic tragedy Cyrano de Bergerac, you can take your pick of the nose....
Review: THE NEIGHBOURS at Tarragon Theatre
What did our critic think of THE NEIGHBOURS at Tarragon Theatre?...
Review: PEOPLE OF THE CITY at Factory Theatre
Bad Dog Theatre’s new improv show at Factory Theatre revolves around a storyteller who shares three short stories from their lives about what it means to be a person in Toronto. After each tale, the team of improvisers serves up a set of improv based on—or, at least, tangentially related—to ob...
Review: LITTLE WILLY at Canadian Stage
Master puppeteer Ronnie Burkett brings the beautiful handcrafted marionettes of the Daisy Theatre to Canadian Stage’s Berkeley St. location for a run of LITTLE WILLY, an anarchic riff off Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in the same vein as 2022’s Little Dickens....
Review: LOVE YOU FOREVER AND MORE MUNSCH at Young People's Theatre
I grew up with Robert Munsch stories. If you grew up in Canada, it’s likely you did, too—or you’ve read them to your children, or grandchildren. ...
Review: EUREKA DAY at Coal Mine Theatre
Many of us have, at some point in our lives, operated on the basic assumptions that our chosen communities, particularly those aligned by basic ideology, had our best interests at heart and would look out for each other. ...
Review: YOU, ALWAYS at Canadian Stage
Erin Shields’ beautiful YOU, ALWAYS, directed by Andrea Donaldson at Canadian Stage’s Berkeley Street Theatre, is a kaleidoscopic, fragmented look at all moments of a sibling relationship, from childhood to maturity and everything in between....
Review: MISCHIEF at Tarragon Theatre
The fish leads a more exciting life when it jumps out of the water to visit mischief on the birds. That’s what Emily (Nicole Joy-Fraser), a 288-year-old spirit, tells Brooke (Lisa Nasson), a young Mi’kmaq woman who Emily feels is treading water instead of emerging from it....
Review: OPHIS at The Great Hall
TranscenDance Project is starting off the new year by offering an invitation into the unknown with a remount of their intoxicating interactive production of Ophis. Taking over the multifple rooms and floors of The Great Hall, audience members are invited to don a mask and follow along as dancers tel...
Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Shaw Festival
Niagara on the Lake will always be known for it's quaint lakeside charm, full of shops, restaurants, and tourists. So it's seems perfectly fitting that the Shaw Festival presents it's last incarnation of their beloved version of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL. This fresh adaptation by Festival A...
Review: PREDICTABLE HOLIDAY ROM-COM/THE UNAUTHORIZED HALLMARK(ISH) PARODY MUSICAL at Second City/The Royal
Within a week, Toronto audiences had the opportunity to see two musicals which parody that scourge of November to January television, the Hallmark Christmas Movie....
Review: THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON at Canadian Stage
“Since we surveyed, mapped, explored, and planted a flag,” writes Robert Lepage in his director’s note to THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON, “our interest in the moon seems to have greatly diminished.” Lepage, however, believes that, while it may no longer be as much of an enigma, the moon will nev...
Review: SPOTLIGHT AT THE SECOND CITY at Second City
What did our critic think of SPOTLIGHT AT THE SECOND CITY at Second City? For its October Spotlight series, the featured acts were $20 Sandwich and Sarah Bennett....
Review: TICK...TICK...BOOM! at Alumnae Theatre
What did our critic think of TICK...TICK...BOOM! at Alumnae Theatre?...
Review: THE BURTON EXPERIENCE at Novotel Toronto Centre
Tim Burton, praise Hecate in his name. That’s the refrain you’ll be encouraged to intone many times at THE BURTON EXPERIENCE, the second edition of a pop-up held at Novotel’s downtown location at 45 Esplanade....
Review: CHILD-ISH at Tarragon Theatre
Are the kids all right? It’s hard to say, but it’s easy to leave the show with hope for the future, and an appreciation of intergenerational artistic collaboration....
Review: WHAT BRINGS YOU IN at Theatre Passe Muraille
Ting’s performance art piece-cum-concert is part life confessional, part experimental violin recital, and part meditative state....
Review: ORFEO ED EURIDICE at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts
The extreme minimalism did not land for me or my guest, but it was clear that other members of the audience loved it. It all comes down to how much you love contemporary baroque singing and agree with a 'less is more' approach to mounting opera....
Review: BREMEN TOWN at Tarragon Theatre
With compelling performances by Toronto theatre stalwarts, this tight, heartbreaking production might inspire you to call your grandparents and tell them that they matter....
Review: BLACKBIRD at United Hope Church
What did our critic think of BLACKBIRD at United Hope Church? Of course, there’s a lot to gasp about in Talk Is Free Theatre’s production of BLACKBIRD, an incredibly intimate staging of Scottish playwright David Harrower’s 2005 drama about a tense confrontation, years after the fact, between a...
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