Kim Selody's stage adaptation of The Hobbit, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved novel, is directed by Pablo Felices-Luna at the Avon Theatre. Richard Lee stars as Bilbo Baggins, an unassuming Hobbit who is drawn from the comfort of his home into an extraordinary quest across...
Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Death of a Salesman is directed by Dean Gabourie and stars Tom McCamus as Willy Loman and Lucy Peacock as Linda Loman. The production follows an aging salesman who clings to a fading vision of success as memory and reality blur...
The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners directed by Krista Jackson, featuring Carter Gulseth as Algernon Moncrieff, Joe Perry as John Worthing, and Fiona Reid as Lady Bracknell. The play follows two young men leading double lives and assuming false...
Eric McCormack returns to Stratford to play the lead role of Garry Essendine in this Noel Coward comedy, directed by Richard Ouzounian. Overflowing with glamour, romance and comic chaos, the play is a celebration of friendship, celebrity and the delightful madness of show...
Booty Candy is perfect for 2026. It has just the right blend of hilarity and hyperbole to take your mind off current events and just enough home truths to give a voice to the shared pain, fear and rage of all of us whose very existence is subversive during these turbulent times. At a time when pla…
Multi-Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keys lends her soulful and iconic tunes to Hell's Kitchen on stage now at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre, directed by Patrick Willingham and Oskar Eustis (artistic director) with book by Kristoffer Diaz. This moving coming-of-age story features the the…
WALDEN is more successful in its exploration of family dynamics than as a work of speculative fiction. However, Icarus Theatre’s production at The Theatre Centre, directed by Erik Richards, still takes off for an engaging 90 minutes of theatre.…
Canadian Opera Company’s season opener La Traviata pulls out all the stops and sets an extremely high bar for the rest of its 26-27 offerings. My companion has been coming to the opera with me for many years, and she was blown away, proclaiming this as one of her all-time faves. “A triumph,” s…
Spring Awakening at Soulpepper Theatre is a well-executed and expertly-crafted sensory delight (though the dark themes this play tackles are far from delightful) that offers an intense, almost cinematic theatre-going experience.…
The Shaw Festival seems to be having a small tribute festival to Shaffer brothers as it is presenting two of their known pieces this season. The dark mystery SLEUTH by Anthony Shaffer is now playing to great acclaim at the Court House Theatre and more recently and the comic drama AMADEUS by Sir Pe…
An embarrassment of artistic riches has yet again convened in Niagara on the Lake for this season’s Shaw Festival. Two very different plays are given world class productions sharing many of the same talents. Last week I attended Anthony Shaffer’s psychological thriller SLEUTH at the intima…
THE GREAT GATSBY is most definitely not your high school lit class. At the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre, the music is loud, the dancing is hot, and the passions are hotter.…
Now in performances at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre, Mamma Mia! is a delightfully cheerful and charmingly-quirky musical that had audiences roaring with applause and laughter.…
Reviews of Love, Shakespeare, and Rope; A Comedy Show at the End of the World; and Orbit…
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Mad Magic: The Funniest Mad Scientist Magician Wychwood Theatre (10/31-11/01) |
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The Importance of Being Earnest Stratford Festival (5/19-10/23) PHOTOS |
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The Rainbow Fish Musical Wychwood Theatre (9/19-10/18) |
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Jordan Young People's Theatre (10/16-10/23) |
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ELECTRIC SILENCE Cornell Recital Hall (4/10-4/10) |
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Guys and Dolls Stratford Festival (4/22-11/14) PHOTOS |
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Roses & Thorns Comedy Bar (11/06-11/27) |
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SHADOWS AND LIGHT Flato Markham Theatre (2/06-2/06) |
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Moonstruck Comedy Bar (10/09-10/30) |
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A Fine Balance Crow's Theatre (8/25-10/11) |
