How did I not know this? That question has been following me around this week, especially after seeing Crow’s Theatre’s world-premiere stage adaptation of Rohinton Mistry’s...
There is a very good musical trying to cross the East River in Brooklyn’s Bridge, the ambitious new work now playing at The Space at Irondale...
The most persistent conversations often happen inside our own heads. Medusa asks, or maybe demands, us to listen to them. Before the space ignites, audience members...
We have been cordially invited to a wedding, and a soft hum of sweet expectation fills the room like Golden notes in the air. We file...
All aboard the MS Americana, as the Shaw Festival‘s effervescent production of Anything Goes sets sail for a spirited crossing filled to overflowing with flavorfully festive...
She studies herself, deep into the mirror in the first few telling moments of Here For Now Theatre‘s auspicious world premiere of Stick Around, examining her birthday...
“I am a seagull,” she cries, determined to get through the scene, but alas, “no, that’s not right“. Yet, on the other hand, at The Coal...
I often have wondered what kind of madness overcame the United States last year. A type of diseased mind that allowed itself to vote for and...
Anyone who has read my blog from the beginning knows that my love of the rock musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is timeless and without bounds....
Filled to overflowing with pampered aristocrats caught in the dazzled afflicted age of the 19th-Century, London Assurance, written most assuredly by the precocious Dion Boucicault at...
Returning to the Shaw Festival last week, ‘mystery’ is the theme that greeted me in the three plays I saw this round more than secrets (see...
Grabbing a seat inside and a drink from the bar on a Saturday afternoon (don’t judge me), we are welcomed into Our Lady Kensington, a dive...
This might be the first time in decades that I was in town and available to catch at least a few shows at Toronto’s exciting and...
“As the dawn breaks” over the houses, a songbird’s tender melody flies this new musical forward over the three mornings, decades apart. As three households are...
Surrounded on all sides by an excited opening night crowd, that’s not exactly gaudy, but certainly glittery, Stratford Festival gloriously presents a thrilling production of the...
The “sweet, sweet boy” lies in a spotlight, shrowded in Spanish moss and mystic lighting. He’s drowning in the mystic feeling of death with ghostly faces...
Dragging their baggage in with a determined force, these two, dressed in fake fur and leather, enter the space at Crow’s Theatre with manic laughter and...
I was apprehensive and excited, all at the same time, as I entered the touring company staging of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg’s Les Misérables, now taking form at the...
The sharpness and pointedness of this new play, Four Minutes Twelve Seconds is signaled quickly within the first few minutes and unknown seconds when the first...
Arriving at the Canadian premiere of The Inheritance, I could barely contain my excitement (just ask the press person whom I’ve been hounding for months for...
Two plays take to the Toronto stage in two nights courtesy of a few wonderfully inventive theatre companies, delivering some deeply moving and ultimately compelling theatre...
Within two very different musical renderings inside two different theatres in Toronto, two very different yet magnificently dynamic characters take hold of center stage and create...
The far-off static sound of television catches our attention. We focus in, searching the space for a source, but only see signs of a struggle; maybe...
Music floats in, all around us, from all sides. Beautiful stringed instruments are played by secretive musicians standing there amongst us in the aisle at the...
She tells us she will “describe everything” for us, this little sparrow, who’s taken hostage by a soldier’s eyes in the first segment of Bad Roads,...
