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.
Toronto Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Toronto.
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.
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.
Review: LOVE YOU FOREVER AND MORE MUNSCH at Young People's Theatre
I grew up with Robert Munsch stories.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Review: THE BURTON EXPERIENCE at Novotel Toronto Centre
Tim Burton, praise Hecate in his name.
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.
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
Review: ROMEO & JULIETTE at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts
This production is comfort food without being boring and sure to appeal to opera lovers and Romeo & Juliette lovers of all ages, stages and walks of life.
Review: WAITING FOR GODOT at Coal Mine Theatre
Coal Mine’s dedication to text and its intimate quarters mean that you don’t need to shell out for Broadway to get closer to Godot.
Review: MJ: THE MUSICAL at Ed Mirvish Theatre
It’s the eve of Jackson’s Dangerous tour, which is spiralling out of control as he demands more technology and works his dancers to the bone, searching for an elusive perfection that will top anything he’s ever done before while scandal and rumours swirl around him.
Review: ENORMITY, GIRL, AND THE EARTHQUAKE IN HER LUNGS at Nightwood Theatre
Woolley’s moving and layered script, developed over years in Nightwood’s Write From the Hip program, is like a firehose of neuroses, a constant barrage that drenches you with a mind that never shuts off and lungs that never take a breath.
Review: THE ELEPHANT GIRLS at Red Sandcastle Theatre
“It was all a game,” sneers Maggie Hale (Margo MacDonald), lead “enforcer” of THE ELEPHANT GIRLS, the notorious gang of women that swept through London in the 1920s.
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The Second City Toronto: Mainstage Comedy 92nd Revue The Second City (8/18-10/04) |
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LABOUR The Theatre Centre (9/10-9/12) |
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HYPROV: The Hypnosis & Improv Comedy Experience – Live in Ottawa NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE - SOUTHAM HALL (11/12-11/12) |
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Othello Stratford Festival (5/22-9/27) PHOTOS |
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All's Well Theatre Aquarius (1/27-2/13) |
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Not Dead Yet! - John Cleese and the Holy Grail at 50 The Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres (10/02-10/02) |
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Raised by Women Canadian Stage (3/27-4/11) |
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Experience HYPROV: The Ultimate Live Comedy & Hypnosis Show Roy Thomson Hall (11/06-11/06) |
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An Evening of Hypnosis & Improv with Asad Mecci & Colin Mochrie Kingston Grand Theatre (11/10-11/10) |
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BE MORE CHILL Terminal Theatre (2/02-2/20) |