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Review: Spectacular ANNIE is a Must-See at the Stratford Festival
Director/Choreographer Donna Feore has done it again! The Stratford Festival production of ANNIE opened on Tuesday evening and the audience reception could not have been more enthused. Feore has assembled an incredible cast of actors, singers, dancers, and dog(s) who have put on a show that expertly...
Review: CLUE LIVE ON STAGE! at Royal Alexandra Theatre
The much beloved childhood Hasbro board game Clue became a big screen hit in 1985 with the film directed by Jonathan Lynn starring Tim Curry and Madeline Kahn. Now, Toronto audiences get to play along with this laugh out loud lightning paced romp as Clue Live on Stage! takes to the Royal Alexandra ...
Review: A STRANGE LOOP at Soulpepper
Michael R. Jackson’s A STRANGE LOOP is a striking text and meta-text, calculatedly raw and messy, archly vulnerable, and sacredly profane....
Review: DUEL CITIZENS at Second City
Second City’s Duel Citizens, in the company’s 90th mainstage review, tells our southern neighbour to get off our collective lawn in its usual sprightly and entertaining fashion....
Review: BENEVOLENCE at Tarragon Theatre
Touching and funny, earnest yet practical, Wong’s play is a small gem with a flowing, well-crafted narrative and crystal clear characterization. ...
Review: SHEDDING A SKIN at Buddies In Bad Times
Within the larger space of Buddies in Bad Times’ Chamber, set designer Jung-Hye Kim’s constrained, small box of a playing space looks like it could be either a present or a trap, a Kinder Egg of theatre housing Vanessa Sears’ luminous solo performance....
Review: AMERICANADIAN at SoCap Comedy
Meredith Mullen is a strong singer and a charming storyteller, and we had a very nice evening watching her solo show “AmeriCanadian” and the improv set that preceded it at Beer Beer, the Saturday comedy night at SOCAP Comedy....
Review: MAHABHARATA at Canadian Stage
The god Krishna (a dryly funny Neil D’Souza) asks this of one side of an all-consuming inter-family war, cousins against cousins, in the second half of Why Not Theatre’s two-part production of MAHABHARATA, the Sanskrit epic of fate, death, and cycles of violence, now presented by Canadian Stage ...
Review: THE LITTLE PRINCE at Theatre Passe Muraille
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” This classic line from THE LITTLE PRINCE encapsulates both the achievements and pitfalls of Landon Krentz, Theatre Passe Muraille and Inside Out Theat...
Review: THE BORN-AGAIN CROW at Buddies In Bad Times
In Caleigh Crow’s THERE IS VIOLENCE AND THERE IS RIGHTEOUS VIOLENCE AND THERE IS DEATH OR, THE BORN-AGAIN CROW at Buddies in Bad Times, rage is the thing with feathers. The production, a collaboration between Buddies and Native Earth Performing Arts, celebrates the flame of righteous anger when po...
Review: INSIDE AMERICAN PIE at CAA Theatre
From Harmony House in Hunter River, PEI, Mike Ross and a troupe of island musicians bring the story behind Don McLean's iconic song 'American Pie'. Presented as a docu-concert, Mike along with Brielle Ansems, Greg Gale. Alicia Toner, and Kirk White takes the song verse by verse in order to deep div...
Review: PERFORMANCE REVIEW at Outside The March
Rosamund Small’s obsessive refrain as her anxieties take hold provides a jolt as potent as the latte you might be drinking at PERFORMANCE REVIEW, an Outside the March site-specific production at Morning Parade Coffee Bar....
Review: TRIDENT MOON at Streetcar Crowsnest
What did our critic think of TRIDENT MOON at Streetcar Crowsnest?...
Review: THE WOLF IN THE VOICE at Tarragon Theatre
The extremely snowy night I saw THE WOLF IN THE VOICE, an exploration by three professional singers into the joys and pitfalls of a life spent nursing the soulful but capricious vocal instrument, I had spent all day rehearsing my trusty soprano for a choral performance of my own, a live-scored film ...
Review: LA REINE-GARCON at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts
Seeing a fully staged new operatic production in an environment as airy and luxurious as the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts is a treat in itself. La-Reine Garcon, produced jointly by the Canadian Opera Company and Opera Montreal, offers this and more. It blends superb new music with abs...
Review: MADAMA BUTTERFLY at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts
The COC’s 2025 production of this masterpiece seamlessly blends performance practice tradition with a contemporary perspective on the story’s timeless themes....
Review: JUST FOR ONE DAY - THE LIVE AID MUSICAL at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre
On July 13, 1985, history was made with the first ever global concert taking place simultaneously in London's Wembley Stadium and Philadelphia's John F. Kennedy's Stadium. The line up was a dazzling who's who of music's top artists of the era from David Bowie, Paul McCartney, and Queen to Madonna, P...
Review: FIFTEEN DOGS at CAA Theatre
Fifteen Dogs was adapted for the stage and directed by Marie Farsi. It originally premiered at Crow's Theatre in 2023 before making its current off-Mirvish debut at the CAA Theatre. In approaching the stage adaptation, Farsi discovered that the narrative was delivered in a fashion akin to epic poems...
Review: WINTER SOLSTICE at Canadian Stage
What did our critic think of WINTER SOLSTICE at Canadian Stage?...
Review: ALLIGATOR PIE at Soulpepper
What did our critic think of ALLIGATOR PIE at Soulpepper?...
Feature: Ilana Lucas Picks the Top Toronto Theatre of 2024
What did our critic have to say about Toronto's Top Theatre of 2024?...
Review: 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE... at Meridian Hall
It’s a treat and a half; I can earnestly say: If you miss out on Cirque, you will be désolé....
Review: ORACULUM at Buddies In Bad Times
Whether ORACULUM effectively navigates the space between drag show and narrative is up for debate, but Drag Race fans will likely enjoy themselves at the cheeky, irreverent show....
Review: CRAZE at Tarragon Theatre
Discover CRAZE at Tarragon Theatre, a co-production with Modern Times Stage Company. This play, inspired by 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', features a diverse cast and an AI unit named Buddy. Directed by Mike Payette, the show delves into themes of global issues and generational flaws in a modern...
Review: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre
What did our critic think of MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre?...
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