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...
Punctuate! Theatre is unpacking a love story. A love story about a couple. A love story about Ukraine. And a love story against an unbelievably complicated backdrop....
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...
“I fixed all that racism,” he says, just before Redbone Coonhound, the new play co-written by the interracial couple, Amy Lee Lavoie (Rabbit, Rabbit) and Omari...
“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...
Oh, what a year it was. Running back and forth with a vengeance from Toronto to NYC, with stops in London, England, and London, Canada. Mostly...
I was really curious when I arrived at Mirvish’s Princess of Wales Theatre in Downtown Toronto to see a new production of Joseph and the Amazing...
A rumpled suit-tieing man sits behind the security desk killing time as we file into the Alumnae Theatre in downtown Toronto. He can’t seem to settle...
The wooden deck structure juts out at us almost aggressively, but there is a warmth to the setting that feels like nature with a sprinkle of...
On a large canvas, centered around a thatched roof circle, a company of actors delivers a communal song and dance of unity and collectivity, inviting us...
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...
It’s a big undertaking, these two slices of golden royalty. One from the past; old and well formulated. The other from the present; young and ambitious....
It seems very apropos. Or at least a festive, fortunate turn, for the Real Canaan Theatre to stage a small, swift, smart rendering of Shakespeare’s The...
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...
“Oh baby, baby, I shouldn’t have let you go.” Cause it’s been a while. I will admit it. And I should have written about seeing &...
Soo Garay, Paul Dunn, and Zorana Sadiq in Factory Theatre’s Wildfire. Photo by Dahlia Katz. The slow-burning embers of Factory Theatre‘s magnificent Wildfire are planted wisely...
Pulled and compacted together, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child the stage show has been reborn, both on the road and on the Broadway and West...
I have a special place in my gay old heart for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. The theatre was my birthplace in a way. My first...
This was one of those ‘hard to take in’ and ‘difficult to let go’ experiences that happens sometimes when you see something so smart, dynamic, and...
The thumping and crackling fill the air, as the hot flames take root on the walls and the floorboards, thanks to some epic work by sound...
Storytelling is an artform in itself. It requires, or at least asks for, a diving in, and a complete surrender. When done well, with the pure...
Today, it seems, is the day for truth to come out at Kim’s Convenience, the beautifully crafted play brought to us by the award winning Canadian...
