Through small stories of personal grief and collective memory playwright Clark creates a melancholy snapshot of small-town youth, smartly studded with Grease references and oodles of yearning, sexual energy.
Driftwood Theatre’s Bard Bus Tour Returns to Toronto
Driftwood Theatre’s King Henry Five will be in Toronto’s Christie Pits Park on August 16 and 17.
REVIEW: As You Like It at Canadian Stage’s Dream in High Park
While two hours isn’t exactly a short play, this production is frivolous and fun: the perfect way to spend an evening in the park.
REVIEW: Little Women at Stratford Festival
In three hours, Jordi Mand’s adaptation of Little Women covers an astonishing number of Louisa May Alcott’s plotlines, sparing little.
REVIEW: Girls & Boys at Here for Now Theatre Company
Spare, unpretentious, and superbly conceived, Girls & Boys at Here for Now simply shines.
6 in the Six: ten impressions of house and home
this house is made of people. which means that it is alive, which means life doesn’t have to be this way.
REVIEW: All’s Well That Ends Well at Stratford Festival
Director Scott Wentworth has moulded the Bard’s tale of fuckboys and fairytale logic into an appealing product.
REVIEW: Anthropic Traces at Balancing on the Edge/A Girl in the Sky Productions/Thin Edge New Music Collective
Circus? Yes, definitely. Experimental music concert? Yep. Powerful statement on cultural hegemony? That too.
REVIEW: King Henry Five at Driftwood Theatre
This refreshing take on Shakespearean history is well worth a look.
Theatre Passe Muraille Announces Their Eclectic, Stirring 2022-23 Season
Theatre Passe Muraille has just announced their first full season since 2019, and the offerings for 2022-23 are eclectic, soul-stirring, and extremely exciting.
Getting a Foot in the Door… Wait, Where’s the Door?
In 2022, it feels like the most challenging part of entering the industry as a new graduate is even finding the entrance.
REVIEW: Every Little Nookie at Stratford Festival
Every Little Nookie, even when it loses focus, never loses its joy.
REVIEW: Detroit at Coal Mine Theatre
I appreciated this production as a chance to engage with a well-wrought piece of contemporary dramaturgy, but was also left wondering if Detroit is a play of a moment that has passed.
A Perfect Pronunciation of Pho (in which you probably won’t actually learn how to pronounce pho)
Can we contend that the saying of “foh” facilitates the task of communicating the noodle soup to you just fine, which is precisely what a word is supposed to do?
Toronto Fringe New Young Reviewers Roundup #2
The New Young Reviewers Program (previously, Teenjur Young Critics), supported by the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund, is a workshop series and writing group for emerging theatre and performance reviewers Canada-wide, ages 15 and up.
REVIEW: & Juliet at Mirvish
The following is a transcript of a conversation between theatre critic Aisling Murphy and theatre artist Joshua Kilimnik, who share a passionate love for musical theatre. Aisling attended the final preview of & Juliet on July 6, and Joshua attended performances at both the beginning and end of the show’s preview period. Shows are not … Continued
Toronto Fringe New Young Reviewers Roundup
The New Young Reviewers Program (previously, Teenjur Young Critics), supported by the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund, is a workshop series and writing group for emerging theatre and performance reviewers Canada-wide, ages 15 and up. Led by Signy Lynch (Contemporary Theatre Review, Canadian Theatre Review, Intermission Magazine) and Stephanie Fung (Kingston Theatre Alliance, Canadian Theatre Review, Single Thread Theatre), this … Continued
