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.
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.
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.
The 2022 Toronto Fringe Festival is back, live and in-person for the first time in two years!
It’s fun (even though it’s a tragedy), easy to follow, and overall, the performances keep the production alive and energetic without sacrificing truth and objective for speed and volume.
Feore’s Richard is calm, almost playful, which adds a delicious level of maliciousness that is often overlooked in favour of blatant anger and lust.
Soulpepper Theatre Company has announced the five artists selected for the 2022 cohort of the Soulpepper Academy.
If you go to a theatre, your aim is to take in, and enjoy what you’re watching, signed Bryan. It needs to be accessible for all of that.
GCTC has unveiled its 2022/23 season, with six revolutionary shows taking the stage in Ottawa’s Hintonburg neighbourhood.
It’s an exploration of death, life, and redemption: but above all else, Crippled is a powerful love story.
Featuring youth from participating communities and two JUNO-nominated acts, OLI’s showcase celebrates the success of its program participants.
They hit every note, every punchline, every exaggerated pose and expression with a commitment and conviction that would have felt right at home on a Broadway stage.
Every second, every frame of the 88-minute film has been deliberately curated to honour its subject and his work.
I returned to my DVP-adjacent home wishing there was a DVP-themed bar in the city. I would go to that bar.
“Deaf and disabled artists are not simply included in this festival: we are this festival… Welcome to our world.”
All of the net proceeds from this event will be donated to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation to help them in their mission of providing aid to those affected by the war in Ukraine.
The House of Bernarda Alba succeeds in transporting its audience to the past while keeping the story firmly rooted in the present; indeed, after almost two years of isolation and lockdowns, it’s easy to relate to the stress of being trapped (a recurring theme in Toronto theatre post-pandemic, it seems).