The Canadian Opera Company’s remount of its 2014 production of Cosí Fan Tutte, originally directed by Atom Egoyan, brings to bear all of the performance and creative excellence for which the COC is known. However, in the post- #MeToo era, and amidst the Cornell 7 scandal, this 236-year-old work h…
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.…
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In 1985, while she was a student at the National Theatre School in Montreal, Brooke Johnson became friends with Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It had been a year and a half since he’d stepped down as prime minister and now he was walking to work, putting cereal bowls on cartoon...
He’s one of the most celebrated Canadian roots musicians of all time, having sold in excess of 500,000 albums. Ashley MacIsaac has garnered international acclaim by playing the fiddle in that hard-nosed, traditional Cape Breton style while adding his own spin and updating Celtic...
Since 1978, Sharon and Bram have been pre-eminent in all aspects of family entertainment across North America as members of the trio Sharon, Lois & Bram. Together, the threesome produced over 20 recordings, three songbooks, six national TV specials, 65 episodes of The Elephant...
You know him from over a dozen TV shows, including Pawn Stars, Top Gear USA and Last Comic Standing. Now, direct from the Sin City Theater in Las Vegas, see Murray, Celebrity Magician live at The Rose. He wowed audiences and the judges of America’s Got Talent by making a 1918...
He’s a musician, composer, actor, director and writer. But, most importantly, Guy Davis is a bluesman. The blues permeates every corner of Davis’s creativity. Throughout his career, he has dedicated himself to reviving the traditions of acoustic blues and bringing them to as...
Big Norm With Host Ryan Long.
Two bands. One Night. Hit After Hit After Hit. The Rose is going to get LOUD with a rocking homage to two of the biggest bands in music history! Keep the Faith and Mama Kin pay tribute to the genius that is BON JOVI and AEROSMITH.
Elton John’s Greatest Hits is the ninth and best-selling album by the British singer/songwriter with US sales of more than 16 million copies. Spanning the years 1970 to 1974, it features songs that remain relevant and much-loved today, such as “Your Song,” “Daniel,” “Bennie and...
You know Tom Green from his anything-goes run as the funniest, most unpredictable personality on MTV and his unforgettable, deliciously loony roles in uproarious film comedies like Road Trip and Freddy Got Fingered. He’s graced the cover of Rolling Stone, commandeered the...
Billy Joel: The Classics has been thrilling audiences for more than 10 years. This 2½-hour spectacle, complete with stunning visuals, features over 25 of Billy Joel’s lesser-known songs and greatest hits, including “New York State of Mind,” “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant,”...
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