Some overtures begin a musical. Others seem to unlock an entire lifetime of theatrical memories. Both are true as the first notes of Jule Styne’s unmistakable...
“Once upon a time“, she walks in, suitcase in hand. There’s “a special kind of man,” she sings, smooth and haunting, as her voice rises in...
It’s the most compelling question of the evening, when someone asks whether you would love a family member differently after discovering an unbearable truth about them....
Two men enter quietly. One takes his place at the piano, the other at center stage. As a radio dial searches for a familiar frequency, snippets...
“I wish.” And they have a way of coming true at Christmas time, sometimes spectacularly, sometimes in ways that surprise you. Sitting down at the Bridge...
After an exchange of love, tenderly delivered, Alfie states, quite clearly, “I’ve accepted what Dr. Chan said on Friday.” And in that beginning, End at the...
‘911, what’s your emergency?’ ‘My husband… they shot him… they all did.’ It’s July 10th, 1981, Missouri, and in that sharp introduction, Kenrex at The Other...
With a tender ear for the pain of imprisonment and racial profiling, balanced with the virtue of love and Forgiveness, from any and all angles, the...
Feeling both flattered and insulted at the same time, Jonathan Wilson (My Own Private Oshawa), writer and performer of Studio 180 Theatre‘s A Public Display of...
The actual, full title is a meaningful mouthful, much like the play, and as There is Violence and there is Righteous Violence and there is Death...
It’s been a few days since we celebrated Christmas in my hometown of London, Ontario, and sadly, I must report that I wasn’t able to get...
One man rocks, seated in a square on a hard bench beside an empty bowl and a bucket. The other is motionless, face down on the...
It begins with a radio broadcast straight out of every World War II movie in existence, with England standing firm against the onslaught of German forces...
The audience is revved up and ready for the Horrorshow Productions‘ Cabaret, and no wonder. We’re drawn intoxicatingly and immediately into the pre-show space by some...
“Don’t You Want Me Baby” plays loud and clear when walking into Goblins:Macbeth at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. The stage is pretty black-box bare, with...
Hey Toronto! We’ve all been gifted, and it’s an original Canadian Hallmark Christmas musical, titled, somewhat awkwardly, Chris, Mrs. It’s as Hallmark-y a show as one...
These three lost souls come forward, staring out into the audience in the warm glow of light, searching the unseen horizon with a questioning eye. What...
Weaving and bobbing, drawing chalk lines with a focused gyrating audacity, a fascinating dynamic radiates out from the central core of an all-encompassing plastic spider web....
