Review: YOU, ALWAYS at Canadian Stage
by Ilana Lucas - February 18, 2026
Erin Shields’ beautiful YOU, ALWAYS, directed by Andrea Donaldson at Canadian Stage’s Berkeley Street Theatre, is a kaleidoscopic, fragmented look at all moments of a sibling relationship, from childhood to maturity and everything in between....
Review: MISCHIEF at Tarragon Theatre
by Ilana Lucas - February 03, 2026
The fish leads a more exciting life when it jumps out of the water to visit mischief on the birds. That’s what Emily (Nicole Joy-Fraser), a 288-year-old spirit, tells Brooke (Lisa Nasson), a young Mi’kmaq woman who Emily feels is treading water instead of emerging from it....
Review: OPHIS at The Great Hall
by Samantha Wu - January 13, 2026
TranscenDance Project is starting off the new year by offering an invitation into the unknown with a remount of their intoxicating interactive production of Ophis. Taking over the multifple rooms and floors of The Great Hall, audience members are invited to don a mask and follow along as dancers tel...
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OPERATIC RHAPSODIES
Feb 7
One of Ravel’s earliest orchestral compositions, the Rhapsodie espagnole is divided into four movements. The first features a particularly prominent motif comprising pitches F–E–D–C-sharp; the motif is all...
MIND AND MAGIC
Oct 18
Breathy flute interjections, chirping trumpets, and even an old typewriter bring to life the quicksilver music of Sea-blue circuitry written by Grammy award-winning American composer Manson Bates. Symphonie espagnole—typically...
KALEIDOSCOPIC SENTIMENTS
Feb 8
Valses Nobles et Sentimentales harkens back to Schubert, who published two sets of waltzes entitles “noble” and “sentimental.” Ravel combines both in his set of waltzes, though his...
IMPRESSIONS OF THE SEA
Dec 7
A holiday classic, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker suite extracts popular tunes from the eponymous ballet, including the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” and the Russian “Trepak”, before...
DANCES AND DREAMS
Oct 19
A suite drawn from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty ballet opens the season; this music will likely be most familiar from the Walt Disney film of the same...
AORUND THE WORLD
Feb 3
Commissioned by Broadway producer Billy Rose, Stravinsky’s Scènes de ballet was written for a revue show in New York, and mixes typical Stravinskean rhythmic flare—including a dance in...
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Dec 9
Stravinsky’s Circus polka, subtitled “For a Young Elephant”, was composed as a short ballet production for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey’s “Greatest Show on Earth;”...
WAR AND PEACE
Oct 21
Inspired by Maurice Maeternick’s essay “The Life of Bees,” Stravinsky’s Scherzo fantastique uses extensive chromatic constructs to depict life and activity in a hive of bees. For the...
THE SPORT OF MUSIC
Feb 11
Artistic inspiration comes in many forms. The joy of sport is decidedly prevalent in the rhythmically rowdy Rugby by the avant-garde Swiss-French composer Honegger. At the request of...
LOCOMOTIVES, BUTTERFLIES AND PUPPETS
Dec 10
Flato Markham Theatre171 Town Centre Blvd, MarkhamStay warm this December as the KSO presents a concert of strikingly programmatic music filled with machinery, fantasy and...
THE FORBIDDEN SYMPHONY
Oct 22
Join Maestro Kristian Alexander as he leads the Kindred Spirits Orchestra in celebrating the first concert of the season, including an Opening Night Gala. Now...
RACHMANINOFF’S THIRD
Feb 8
Although not penned for specific persons or those of the past, Bruchs In Memoriam is a one-movement heartfelt lament for solo violin and orchestra. Hungarian-Canadian...
REDEMPTION
Dec 14
REDEMPTIONSaturday, December 14, 2019 at 8:00 p.m.Flato Markham Theatre for the Performing ArtsInspired by poetry, Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending is a velvety portrait...
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