MERIDIAN ARTS CENTRE - GEORGE WESTON RECITAL 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...

by Michael Rabice - November 25, 2025

Niagara on the Lake will always be known for it's quaint lakeside charm, full of shops, restaurants, and tourists. So it's seems perfectly fitting that the Shaw Festival presents it's last incarnation of their beloved version of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL. This fresh adaptation by Festival A...

by Ilana Lucas - November 23, 2025

Within a week, Toronto audiences had the opportunity to see two musicals which parody that scourge of November to January television, the Hallmark Christmas Movie....

by Ilana Lucas - November 12, 2025

“Since we surveyed, mapped, explored, and planted a flag,” writes Robert Lepage in his director’s note to THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON, “our interest in the moon seems to have greatly diminished.” Lepage, however, believes that, while it may no longer be as much of an enigma, the moon will never lose it...

by Ilana Lucas - November 10, 2025

What did our critic think of SPOTLIGHT AT THE SECOND CITY at Second City? For its October Spotlight series, the featured acts were $20 Sandwich and Sarah Bennett....

by Ilana Lucas - November 09, 2025

What did our critic think of TICK...TICK...BOOM! at Alumnae Theatre?...

by Ilana Lucas - November 03, 2025

Tim Burton, praise Hecate in his name. That’s the refrain you’ll be encouraged to intone many times at THE BURTON EXPERIENCE, the second edition of a pop-up held at Novotel’s downtown location at 45 Esplanade....

by Ilana Lucas - November 03, 2025

Are the kids all right? It’s hard to say, but it’s easy to leave the show with hope for the future, and an appreciation of intergenerational artistic collaboration....

by Ilana Lucas - October 20, 2025

Ting’s performance art piece-cum-concert is part life confessional, part experimental violin recital, and part meditative state....

by Keira Grant - October 13, 2025

The extreme minimalism did not land for me or my guest, but it was clear that other members of the audience loved it. It all comes down to how much you love contemporary baroque singing and agree with a 'less is more' approach to mounting opera....