Marcus Nance as The Creature and Charlie Gallant as Doctor Victor Frankenstein with Laura Condlln as Mary Shelley in Frankenstein Revived. Stratford Festival 2023. Photo by...
Toronto. It is, as defined symbolically, a meeting place, we are told. And the meaning quickly becomes crystal clear as we are musically ushered into the...
She enters and sits, chewing her nails with anxious anticipation, waiting for the trial to begin. The drug kind of test, not a courtroom drama. It’s...
To be upfront and clear, I have, much to the surprise of my theatre companion, never really played a video game before, especially one of those...
The word on the Stratford streets rang out strong. That Casey and Diana, the new play written with a truthful heart by Nick Green (Body Politic;...
With a backdrop of archways surrounded by a sea of white curls, this thought-provoking play within a play, written with a smart, slow-burning underbelly by Colleen...
It’s all heart-wrenching “glory, from the pretty boy frontman“, as Stratford Festivalmagnetically brings to life the epic Rent, the rock musical that slices together Puccini’s 1896 opera La Bohème...
The music pulls us into the looking glass, just like Narcissus was drawn to the reflective image of himself that would end up being his downfall....
She sits, silent and still, full of hope, staring out as we file in to music that doesn’t quite fit the frame. We take in the...
Sometimes, we say exactly what we mean to the people who matter. Yet, sometimes we speak in fragments, dropping the dangerous words into a void, hoping...
It must be something in the spring air. Maybe it’s the warming idea about spending time up at a country house by a lake with nothing...
With slices of cultural religious icons hung on the wall with care, a young woman filled with optimism and divinity enters and descends into a space...
Epic in its deliverance and its panorama, I experienced the same sort of sharp emotional jabs as when, for the first time, I saw Angels in...
“Come on girls!” she yells out, as the potential power of reality is birthed out into the world with the simple beating heart of love and...
It’s the law of the jungle, and in Anosh Irani’s captivatingly engaging new play, Behind the Moon, currently playing at Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, the jungle is...
“Three inches taller, when I speak English,” she says, quite clearly and with a surprised certainty, laying down some of the many complicated structurings that riddle...
Landing in London earlier that day, I didn’t know how prepared we were for Best of Enemies, the new play meticulously written by James Graham (This...
It was a show I knew that I wasn’t going to miss when we booked the plane tickets for our typical, but long overdue theatre extravaganza...
Without a bit of knowledge of Robert Icke’s play is all about, The Doctor strides confidently in and takes control of the Duke of York’s Theatre....
Playwright Hannah Moscovitch (The Russian Play) knows exactly what will get under our skin, and she delivers it swiftly in Tarragon Theatre’s complicated 60-minute play, Post-Democracy....
A mathematical formula, for sentiment sake, to understand the ultimate value of falling in and out of love relationships. Here lies the underbelly of The Ex-Boyfriend...
It’s a fitting opening night for Civilized, the one-man show at the sweet Red Sandcastle Theatre (a perfect venue for this intimate show). The smart solid...
Putting it all together, child bed-wise, out on stage, is what we bear witness to first as we file into our seats excited to see Ins...
Stepping into the Tarragon Theatre, a theatre where I personally have so much connective theatrical history with, was like coming home in a full-circle kind of...
A phone call in the lobby, after some introductions, gets the big ballroom and bonfire going. Both inside and out. It’s a lot of information, thrown...
