REVIEW: Martyr at ARC
An outstanding, intense production with a dark side.
An outstanding, intense production with a dark side.
Young People’s Theatre (YPT) is sharing the fruits of it $13.5 million Room for Imagination renovation project.
Bad parents, no. Excellent play, yes.
This refreshing take on Shakespearean history is well worth a look.
Every Little Nookie, even when it loses focus, never loses its joy.
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.
To whom are we accountable as critics, and as citizens?
80 minutes, a fine script, and a perfectly pitched production can lead to something extraordinary.
among men is a delicate undertaking with intimacy, drama, and a breathtaking physical playing space.
Coal Mine’s perfectly cast, perfectly calibrated production is magnificent.
The subject matter and scope of reference in this play are well outside what one usually sees on Toronto stages, and even though the production didn’t get where it needed to, it seems certain to spark conversations among adventurous theatregoers.
Daniel Brooks’ solo performance is an incredible achievement of presence.
A weird, brilliant, intimate play.
To take stock of Sondheim’s particular contribution to Canadian theatre, a number of writers and artists gathered on Zoom with theatre critic Karen Fricker to discuss his influence and legacy.
In a life already full of fascinating chapters, Soheil Parsa has turned another page. Early this summer, Parsa stepped down as co-artistic director of Modern Times, the theatre company he co-founded three decades ago with Peter Farbridge. The “dream” now for Parsa, as he characterizes it, is to work as a freelance director, liberated from fundraising and administrative responsibilities.
The fiction/real life bleed which in the original play comes from acknowledgement of the co-presence of performer and spectators becomes the character (and actor) acknowledging our simultaneous proximity and distance.