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Review: THE NEIGHBOURS at Tarragon Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - March 06, 2026

What did our critic think of THE NEIGHBOURS at Tarragon Theatre?...

Review: PEOPLE OF THE CITY at Factory Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - March 05, 2026

Bad Dog Theatre’s new improv show at Factory Theatre revolves around a storyteller who shares three short stories from their lives about what it means to be a person in Toronto. After each tale, the team of improvisers serves up a set of improv based on—or, at least, tangentially related—to ob...

Review: LITTLE WILLY at Canadian Stage


by Ilana Lucas - March 05, 2026

Master puppeteer Ronnie Burkett brings the beautiful handcrafted marionettes of the Daisy Theatre to Canadian Stage’s Berkeley St. location for a run of LITTLE WILLY, an anarchic riff off Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in the same vein as 2022’s Little Dickens....

Review: LOVE YOU FOREVER AND MORE MUNSCH at Young People's Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - February 25, 2026

I grew up with Robert Munsch stories. If you grew up in Canada, it’s likely you did, too—or you’ve read them to your children, or grandchildren. ...

Review: EUREKA DAY at Coal Mine Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - February 25, 2026

Many of us have, at some point in our lives, operated on the basic assumptions that our chosen communities, particularly those aligned by basic ideology, had our best interests at heart and would look out for each other. ...

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...

Past Shows

In This Economy
In This Economy
Jun 21 – Jun 23, 2023

Toronto Film School brings its production of In This Economy to the stage this month. The 75-minute musical satire was conceived and directed by Tanya Rintoul, who said...

The Tarantino Cabaret
The Tarantino Cabaret
Jun 21 – Jun 23, 2023

From his older cult classics like Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Kill Bill, all the way to newer hits including Django Unchained and Once Upon...

Crab Mentality: A New Dark Comedy
Crab Mentality: A New Dark Comedy
Apr 28 – Apr 30, 2023

Get ready! Crab Mentality is coming back to Toronto as a newly-revamped production with a talented new team (and some familiar faces)!ABOUT THE PLAY: Five...

Spend Your Kids' Inheritance
Spend Your Kids' Inheritance
Jul 4 – Jul 14, 2019

2019 Canadian Comedy Award winner, Andrew Lamb, directs new musical, Spend Your Kids' Inheritance at this year's Toronto Fringe with an all-star cast. In this...

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