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Review: TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL: DAY 5
Reviews of Rat Academy, Poz, The Bluffs, and 1 Santosh Santosh 2 Go...
Review: TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL: DAY 4
Reviews of Gringas, Far-Flung Peoples, and Paternal Guidance...
Review: TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL: DAY 3
Reviews of Colonial Circus, Elephant Song, Daniel In Love (For One Night Only), and Cabaret of Murder at the Toronto Fringe Festival...
Review: TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL: DAY 2
Reviews of SEE YOU TOMORROW and ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT at the Toronto Fringe...
Review: TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL: DAY 1
Reviews of Chloe and Meraki, Doctor Dolittle, Crime After Crime (After Crime) and Unfurnished...
Review: DEATHTRAP at Red Sandcastle Theatre
I reckon it’s a stroke of producing genius to launch a run of DEATHTRAP, Ira Levin’s classic meta-thriller, on the same day that the Toronto Fringe Festival kicks off. Fringe plays tend to be edgy, experimental, personal, and always of their moment; DEATHTRAP, a sturdy two-acter about a playwrig...
Review: THE LAST TIMBIT at Elgin Theatre
THE LAST TIMBIT isn’t here for a long time; after all, doughnuts go stale quickly. It’s here to be an Experience, and an Experience it is....
Review: TINA - THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre
When considering the most influential performers in the history of rock, Tina Turner's talent and legacy is counted among titans. Her voice, her signature growl, is unmistakable. Her determination to succeed and survive despite years of abuse at the hands of her husband set her apart from the rest. ...
Review: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at Soulpepper
Tennessee Williams’ sprawling classic about what happens when the unstoppable force, fading, fluttering Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Amy Rutherford), meets the immovable object of her brother-in-law, pragmatic, animalistic Stanley Kowalski (Mac Fyfe) proves a night of searing theatre, with Weyni...
Review: ALL MESSED UP & NOWHERE TO GO at Second City
The frequently witty and always entertaining offering from the comedy troupe will make you happy that you put on pants and left the house says BWW's critic
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Review: AGE IS A FEELING at Soulpepper
McGee snaps spellbinding shots of existence, exquisitely distilling an emotion, moment, or rumination until it’s almost unbearable. As she goes on through the decades, you can hear a pin drop; that is, when audience members aren’t laughing or sobbing with recognition....
Review: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION at Shaw Festival
Time travel back to the age of film noir when black and white movie dramas were played to the hilt with overarching mannerisms, full of prototypical characters and not too subtle close ups full of tension inducing musical scores. The Shaw Festival is producing one from that ilk with the classic Agat...
Review: R.A.V.E. at Outside The March
Like its main character, R.A.V.E. is weighed down by some overly ambitious intersectional goals; however, as a party and as an emotional experience, it earns a R.A.V.E. review.A.V.E. at Outside The March?...
Review: HEDDA GABLER at Coal Mine Theatre
Director Moya O’Connell’s take on Henrik Ibsen’s play, in a new version by Liisa Repo-Martel, emphasizes the power of triangles, relationship groupings that seem stable but which are easily unbalanced by such an act of bisection. With a dynamite cast, an accessible adaptation, and the claustro...
Review: HADESTOWN at Ed Mirvish Theatre
Back by popular demand for a limited time is the multiple Tony and Grammy Awards winning new musical Hadestown - music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell, directed by Rachel Chavkin - for a limited run at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre until May 26. This modern, politically relevant tale combines two...
Review: SWAN LAKES AND MINUS 16 at Harbourfront Centre
What did our critic think of SWAN LAKES AND MINUS 16 at Harbourfront Centre?...
Review: SHANIQUA IN ABSTRACTION at Streetcar Crowsnest
Directed by Sabryn Rock, behind Theatre Passe Muraille’s hit Our Place, watson’s show is an 85-minute series of sketches about the joys and frustrations of being a Black woman right here, right now....
Review: SPRING DOUBLE BILL at Toronto Dance Theatre
Toronto Dance Theatre’s Spring Double Bill, highlighting East Asian choreographers of different dance backgrounds, is as welcome as a spring bloom. The two trios run the gamut from serious to irreverent, but both highlight dance as a way to connect, whether between the present and past self, or be...
Review: EL TERREMOTO at Tarragon Theatre
When the ground beneath your feet starts, to move it's an unmooring, dangerous feeling. That’s the sensation that shakes at the core of Christine Quintana’s complex and refreshing new play, EL TERREMOTO (The Earthquake), which may shake you from your seat—even without the help of the intense r...
Review: UNCLEARING at Harbourfront Centre
As the name suggests, UNCLEARING can be somewhat opaque in its messaging to the audience, but it doesn’t stop it from being a stimulating evening....
Review: HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK at Elgin Theatre
Produced by Côté Danse, Ex Machina and Dvoretsky Productions, THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET is on at the Elgin theatre for five short days, and it’s a respectable addition to Ham Mountain, a visually inventive production that never lets its stage magic overshadow the dancers behind and in front of the c...
Review: LES MISERABLES at the Princess of Wales Theatre
The world's most beloved musical, Les Misérables - directed by Laurence Connor and James Powell based on the Victor Hugo novel, makes a highly anticipated return to the Princess of Wales Theatre for a limited engagement. This new reimagined staging is heralded as a reawakening of the classic for...
Review: DANA H. at Factory Theatre
When actress Jordan Baker opens her mouth, the voice we hear isn’t hers; it’s the voice of Dana H. playwright Lucas Hnath’s mother, Dana Higginbotham, recorded in a series of interviews and cut together to form a lip sync track. Dana herself speaks her truth as she remembers it, which in this ...
Review: NO ONE'S SPECIAL AT THE HOT DOG CART at Theatre Passe Muraille
Petch’s show blends stories of their experiences from behind the hot dog cart to behind the hospital desk with a discussion of the principles of de-escalation, along with highlighting incidents of when they feel they failed to properly follow these tenets. In turn, the show itself invites us to li...
Review: DEAD ELEPHANTS at Aki Studio
Good Old Neon’s DEAD ELEPHANTS, now being performed in the Daniels Spectrum’s Aki Studio, packs more pachyderms into its devised script than you might think possible in such a small space, though none of the fine beasts are ever seen on stage....
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