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Barrie, ON L4N 6S7
Talk Is Free Theatre is a theatre in Toronto.
Written by Jean Genet and directed by Jillian Keiley, The Maids is based on a true story and tells the account of two sisters employed as servants in a wealthy household who engage in elaborate role-playing games, each taking turns as their superior, Madame. Long-suppressed...
Devised and curated by Griffin Hewitt, Don't Touch the Art transforms a large building into a living gallery of performance where multiple works, both new and Talk Is Free Theatre favourites, unfold simultaneously across rooms, hallways, and hidden corners. Each encounter is...
Written by contemporary Ukrainian playwright Oleg Mikhailov and directed by Viktor Drevitski, Letters of Ice and Sand makes its world premiere in Barrie. Written from inside a nation at war and spanning generations of conflict from the Soviet-Finnish Winter War to the ongoing...
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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.…
Reviews of Love, Shakespeare, and Rope; A Comedy Show at the End of the World; and Orbit…
Devised and curated by Griffin Hewitt, Don't Touch the Art transforms a large building into a living gallery of performance where multiple works, both new and Talk Is Free Theatre favourites, unfold simultaneously across rooms, hallways, and hidden corners. Each encounter is...
Written by Jean Genet and directed by Jillian Keiley, The Maids is based on a true story and tells the account of two sisters employed as servants in a wealthy household who engage in elaborate role-playing games, each taking turns as their superior, Madame. Long-suppressed...
Tales of an Urban Indian, written by Darrell Dennis, is a dark comedy featuring Simon, a contemporary Indigenous man navigating life between the reserve and the big city. The play, staged on a moving city bus, allows audiences to witness Simon's journey through various...
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