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Review: TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL: DAY 3

Review: TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL: DAY 3

by Ilana Lucas — July 7, 2024

Reviews of Colonial Circus, Elephant Song, Daniel In Love (For One Night Only), and Cabaret of Murder at the Toronto Fringe Festival

Review: DEATHTRAP at Red Sandcastle Theatre

Review: DEATHTRAP at Red Sandcastle Theatre

by Louis Train — July 8, 2024

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.

Review: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at Soulpepper

Review: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at Soulpepper

by Ilana Lucas — June 24, 2024

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: AGE IS A FEELING at Soulpepper

Review: AGE IS A FEELING at Soulpepper

by Ilana Lucas — June 20, 2024

McGee snaps spellbinding shots of existence, exquisitely distilling an emotion, moment, or rumination until it’s almost unbearable.

Review: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION at Shaw Festival

Review: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION at Shaw Festival

by Michael Rabice — June 17, 2024

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.

Review: HEDDA GABLER at Coal Mine Theatre

Review: HEDDA GABLER at Coal Mine Theatre

by Ilana Lucas — May 19, 2024

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.

Review: HADESTOWN at Ed Mirvish Theatre

Review: HADESTOWN at Ed Mirvish Theatre

by Samantha Wu — May 21, 2024

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.

Review: SHANIQUA IN ABSTRACTION at Streetcar Crowsnest

Review: SHANIQUA IN ABSTRACTION at Streetcar Crowsnest

by Ilana Lucas — April 15, 2024

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: UNCLEARING at Harbourfront Centre

Review: UNCLEARING at Harbourfront Centre

by Ilana Lucas — April 8, 2024

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

Review: HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK at Elgin Theatre

by Ilana Lucas — April 8, 2024

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

Review: LES MISERABLES at the Princess of Wales Theatre

by Samantha Wu — March 30, 2024

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.

Review: NO ONE'S SPECIAL AT THE HOT DOG CART at Theatre Passe Muraille

Review: NO ONE'S SPECIAL AT THE HOT DOG CART at Theatre Passe Muraille

by Ilana Lucas — March 23, 2024

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.

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