HOUSE CONCERT

by Ilana Lucas - May 17, 2026

What did our critic think of CICADAS at Tarragon Theatre?...

by Keira Grant - April 27, 2026

Even if you are lukewarm to early 20th-century avant-garde music and don’t care for Schoenberg’s serial composition music-baby, you are sure to be won over by the brilliance of these performers and the creative team....

by Ilana Lucas - April 24, 2026

Anyone who’s spent ten minutes online in the past decade knows that we live in an age of anger and polarization when it comes to the issues and identities we hold dear. Stories abound about families who can no longer speak to each other or even share a meal, with jagged cracks in the foundations o...

by Keira Grant - April 17, 2026

Opera Atelier’s 2025-2026 production of Claude Debussy’s Pelléas and Mélisande is a departure from the company’s production modus operandi that will leave a lasting impression on audiences and signal a new era of innovation for Opera Atelier....

by Ilana Lucas - April 17, 2026

In Jen Silverman’s The Moors, the slightly deranged love child of the Brontës, Waiting For Godot, and Six, Emilie the governess (Blessing Adedijo) arrives at a manor amidst the titular plains to find that nothing is quite as she expected. Branwell, her supposed employer and warmhearted correspond...

by Ilana Lucas - March 24, 2026

When it comes to adaptations of French playwright Edmond Rostand’s romantic tragedy Cyrano de Bergerac, you can take your pick of the nose....

by Ilana Lucas - March 06, 2026

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

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....

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. ...