Every play is fantastic: A small-city theatre critic’s manifesto
Every play is fantastic: A small-city theatre critic’s manifesto
REVIEW: A spinning set and knockout cast make a delightful Clue at the Grand Theatre
Clue isn’t a particularly hard-hitting night of theatre — but of course, it’s not meant to be. Between Perchaluk’s impeccable design and a rock-solid cast of Canadian actors, Clue is a family-friendly delight from start to finish.
Canadian Stage unveils bracing 2024-25 season
Canadian Stage has announced its 2024-25 season, featuring an exciting roster of Toronto and Canadian premieres as well as remounts of beloved productions from across Ontario.
REVIEW: Mononk Jules is a powerful exploration of Indigenous Canadian history that asks more questions than it answers
This is a powerful, deeply-felt performance about the treacherous but necessary work of tracing personal and political histories.
The curious case of the embedded critic
Intermission’s senior editor Aisling Murphy reflects on her time as an embedded critic with the cast and creative team of The Exhale, a new play by Lisa Alves about polyamory, queerness…and air conditioners.
REVIEW: No One’s Special at the Hot Dog Cart is a heartfelt slice of autobiography
As a memoir, Charlie Petch’s play has significant power, and the writing — laced with occasional jaunts into poetry — often resonates.
Ottawa’s GCTC reveals 50th anniversary season
GCTC’s 2024-25 season features joyful comedy, big ideas, and a local world premiere.
REVIEW: Dana H. is an explosion of theatrical form and craft
Dana H. is a gift of a production, realized gorgeously by Waters’ design team and produced with the characteristic aplomb of Crow’s Theatre.
London’s Grand Theatre announces 2024-25 season
The jam-packed season includes blockbuster musicals and a slate of exciting co-productions with theatres across the country.
REVIEW: Tease uses burlesque to unpack body positivity
The conversation Tease starts is metal as hell — it’ll be all the more so when more body types are able to participate.
REVIEW: Rock Bottom Movement’s Sex Dalmatian takes offbeat ideas to subversive extremes
Sex Dalmatian is one of those productions I’d feel confident bringing any fellow young person to, whether or not they’re a fan of the performing arts.
REVIEW: Three Sisters weaves together joy, fear, and the Biafran Civil War
and Kemi King
In this conversational review of Three Sisters, contributors Kemi King and Aisha Lesley Bentham reflect on a masterful production helmed by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu.
REVIEW: In 3 Fingers Back, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard explores the extremes of war
3 Fingers Back ain’t no regular play about war. We don’t see or hear the destruction of the land or the cry of the people. Instead, Donna-Michelle (DM) St. Bernard’s double bill of plays is more intimate, an inward crawl to what she calls the “repetitive stress patterns” that constitute the world.
How Cliff Cardinal found his inner rock star
Photography by Dahlia Katz
“What I’m finding out through the beauty of music is that there are things we can’t talk about,” says Cardinal. “But through our relationship with a rock star, we can experience those things in a more real way. We can experience them communally.”
Speaking in Draft: We Quit Theatre
This Winnipeg-based dynamic duo creates work that shatters formal expectations, deconstructs the Western canon, and embraces the uncertainty and intimacy that live performance makes possible.
REVIEW: La Bête is a sublime few hours of rhymes and ridiculousness
Talk Is Free Theatre never fails to nudge the boundaries of theatre, injecting a refined sense of playfulness into the work it produces. La Bête is yet another success for the company, bringing phenomenal talent to a frequently bizarre play that could fall apart or become repetitive in the wrong hands. Two-and-a-half hours of rhyming couplets never felt so cool.
TO Live presents Mrs Krishnan’s Party, a semi-improvised comedy from New Zealand
This month, New Zealand’s Indian Ink Theatre Company brings its semi-improvised comedy Mrs Krishnan’s Party to Meridian Arts Centre in North York.