A great farce always feels a little like watching someone carry an impossibly tall wedding cake across a crowded room. Every wobble makes you gasp. Every...
For the first several minutes of Sleuth, I wasn’t entirely sure what kind of game playwright Anthony Shaffer (“Death on the Nile“) wanted me to play....
A musical flourish accompanies the parting of the red curtains, and a man stands, just to the right of the spotlight. He seems caught off guard,...
The first image grabs hold, even before Shakespeare has begun his relentless march toward tragedy. A body slowly emerges from beneath the stage, crawling upward as...
Every awards season brings with it a nagging, but all too-familiar mixture of excitement and longing. Still, few announcements inspire quite the same feeling of theatrical...
A grand piano and a pink feathered gown, worn by the unexpected, usher us into this unapologetically delightful romp. Women in black tie and tails and...
An old-fashioned clock is stationed over the stage like a warning, or a stopwatch, counting down the minutes until High Noon strikes and Marshal Will Kane...
Rain lashes the stage as John Millington Synge’s masterpiece comedy The Playboy of the Western World arrives at the National Theatre, with bodies moving through the...
It’s all delicious art deco inside Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, revived most brilliantly at the Menier Chocolate Factory under Christopher Luscombe’s immaculate direction. The revival arrives...
Bryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hayley Squires, and Paapa Essiedu in the West End production of All My Sons. Photo by Jan Versweyveld. The play opens in...
As someone who spends a good portion of each week wishing transatlantic teleportation were a standard perk of theatre journalism, I felt a familiar pang of...
“Can’t you remember?” he asks his wife, who is reclined with ease and tension on the angular couch, referring to the female guest who is arriving...
The highly praised London revival of Mel Brooks’ legendary musical The Producers is returning and transferring to the Garrick Theatre this autumn, following a sold-out run...
I am not “wedded to calamity,” nor am I a purist by any means, especially when it comes to Shakespeare and the classics. Not to get...
It seemed like the most fitting formulation for the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario to present Dear Liar, a play, written with care by Jerome Kilty...
“I have an idea…” she says brightly, and with that lightbulb moment, most of the mischief of this fabulous farce flies forward. It’s the lightest of...
We went into each, hesitatingly, thinking these two shows would be strictly just ‘cute’. And probably well done, but not much more than that. I tend...
Three moonlit bodies motor out in an unexpected vehicle for a watery drop, hooded in wordless violence that sets the cinematic scene with a vengeance. It’s...
Beautifully gowned women adorned in diamonds swirl in a rainbow of colors across the ballroom floor, all looking for their idealized prince. They are all ripe...
Beautiful classical music floats in, transporting us to New York City in 1958, where a cigarette is lit in the dark, illuminating and drawing our gaze...
They gather together around a long split white table, filled to overflowing with black sound props and four microphones, wired up to the ceiling for amplification...
The piano plays a sweet arrangement as the shadows dance behind the gentle white draping, courtesy of scenic & costume designer Ting-Huan 挺歡 Christine Urquhart (Tarragon’s...
The Grand Theatre in London, Canada, announces its New Season, which will include the London Premieres of Disney’s Frozenand Come From Away. March 4, 2025 –...
There’s a strong and engaging “I’m here” energy emanating from the Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace stage, brought forth in abundance by the optimistic connecting persona of...
“This story begins...”, which, in the end, turns out to be a very hard sentence to finish, mainly because, “if we are being factual“, as Rachel...
