The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Toronto.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical SOUTH PACIFIC (book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan) is currently playing at Drayton Entertainment's Huron Country Playhouse in Grand Bend, Ontario, under the direction (and choreography) of MICHAEL LICHTEFELD and it is an absolute delight!
Stones in Her Mouth is a powerful theatrical experience that examines and explores women's lives.
The Philadelphia Story, on stage at the Shaw Festival, takes the audience back to 1939, to the wealthy who have survived the Great Depression.
Yes, Alice, there is another world on the other side of that mirror.
The National Ballet's popular production features dazzling sets, eye-popping costumes, and wondrous choreography.
Director CHRIS ABRAHAM's production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at the Festival Theatre is sure to be the most talked-about production at Stratford Festival this season.
MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, Directed by MARTHA HENRY, and set in the 30 years war that ravaged 17th century Europe, is as moving, upsetting, and as politically relevant as ever…which is likely exactly what playwright Bertolt Brecht intended when he initially wrote it as a response to the Seco
The theme this season at the Stratford Festival is Madness: Minds Pushed to the Edge and when it comes to choosing a musical to fit this theme, there is quite possibly no better choice than MAN OF LA MANCHA.
The National Ballet of Canada opens its summer season with a mixed programme of twentieth century works.
Love between parents and their offspring should be unconditional.
If you like musicals with amazing dancing, powerful singing and farcical comedy - and who doesn't? - get your tickets now for Crazy for You, on Stratford's Festival stage, as this show will sell out this summer.
Flashdance, the 1980's Paramount Pictures movie which led to the creation of the MTV format has been translated to the stage by a group which includes the original film creative team.
The laughter echoed throughout the sold-out house as Victoria Playhouse Petrolia marked its 2014 season opener with Church Basement Ladies.
Cult classic HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH is making waves on Broadway right now with Neil Patrick Harris, so Torontonians will be happy to know that they can catch a production of the edgy rock musical.
Deborah Hay as Sally Bowles is a brilliant light shining in this otherwise very dark production of Cabaret, on stage this season at the Shaw Festival.
It's no secret that there are more Jews in Musical Theatre than stars in the sky - and the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company, along with Angelwak Theatre are shouting it from the rooftop of the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts.
'You don't know what a call is going to be like until you get there,' says Anna the paramedic.
If you get concerned taking your children to the theatre because of all the recent productions featuring violence, swearing, and sexed-up drag queens - you should know The Lion King is fantastic, wholesome family entertainment with none of those (okay, there is one moment in drag, but I promise it's
For the longest time, I was under the impression that Toronto audiences were not fans of drama - for we just don't seem to get many of them in our biggest theatres during most theatre seasons.
William Somerset Maugham's monumental novel 'Of Human Bondage' has never had a stage translation —until now.
Sex can be a touchy subject, something many people have trouble talking about.
'The singer is the voice of the subconscious self.
Toronto gets one more blast of snow as I settle in at Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs to watch blustery Chekhov characters spend a summer holiday in the Russian countryside.
When I go to the theatre, I want my attention to be gripped so that I can escape into someone else's story for an hour or two.
Other Desert Cities strange tale similar in style to the great studies of dysfunctional families - it's a modern version of O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey into Night, or Miller's Death of a Salesman.
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The Play Maidsby Roman Viktyuk Living Arts Centre Auditorium (10/04-10/04) |
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Creditors Canadian Stage (4/09-5/02) |
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Menopause The Musical Thunder Bay Community Auditorium (10/09-10/09) |
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SERENADES AND SWEETHEARTS 19 on the Park Stouffville (2/11-2/11) |
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NORDIC GLORY Meridian Arts Centre (5/15-5/15) |
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Valentine's Bachata & Social Dance Night | Access Ballroom Toronto Access Ballroom (2/13-2/13) |
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Mamma Mia! Princess of Wales Theatre (8/04-8/30) |
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her. Red Sandcastle Theatre (9/01-9/06) |
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Matilda The Musical Theatre Aquarius (3/10-4/04) |
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The Audition Comedy Bar (9/04-9/18) |
