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Maija Kappler
Maija is the co-founder and former co-editor of Intermission. She’d like you to know that her name is pronounced just like “Maya.”
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Khan starred in Canadian Stage’s recent High Park Hamlet. Now, Fernandes is leading Fat Ham, a contemporary adaptation set at a cookout.
In Rosanna Deerchild’s The Secret to Good Tea, laughter is a crucial part of the brew
“If you get two or three Indigenous people in the same room, somebody is going to start making jokes,” says Deerchild. “We have a lot of trauma, but we also have a lot of laughter and joy. In the Indigenous worldview, that balance is really important. When you become imbalanced, then that's when the wounds start.”
Q&A: Casey and Diana director Andrew Kushnir on bringing the acclaimed drama to Theatre Aquarius
“There’s lots to grieve right now in the world,” says Kushnir. “But there are so few communal places to be with that grief. And I do think grieving in public normalizes a universal human condition: that we’ve all loved and lost something (time, a dream, a way of life) — or, more commonly, a dear someone.”
Meet the participants of What Writing Can Do: The 2025 Musical Theatre Critics Lab
Theatre Aquarius’ National Centre for New Musicals, the Grand Theatre, and Intermission Magazine are excited to announce the cohort of What Writing Can Do: The 2025 Musical Theatre Critics Lab.
REVIEW: Mirvish’s Just For One Day gives Live Aid the showchoir treatment
It’s a group effort to a rather incredible degree — many of the songs are essentially riff battles, with the singers hot-potatoing the melody around.
REVIEW: A Streetcar Named Desire pulls into Theatre Calgary for the first time in over two decades
You’ll find everything you might expect from a take on A Streetcar Named Desire: sensuality, top-notch performances, and all.
A Message from Intermission’s Editors
May Antaki and Maija Kappler, co-founders and co-editors-in-chief of Intermission, are stepping down.
Casting Announcement: what I call her
Here's the cast for Ellie Moon's play "what I call her," directed by Sarah Kitz, opening at Crow's Theatre this November.
Theatre this Week: Stratford Edition
Here are the Stratford Festival plays to see for the week of June 4 - 10, 2018.
Theatre this Week: May 28 – June 3
These are the plays to see in Toronto for the week of May 28 - June 3, 2018.
Here Are the 2018 Toronto Theatre Critics Award Winners
Toronto's theatre critics just announced their favourite shows of the year for 2018.
Telling the Story of the Murder Trial that Changed the Country
Fiction about a real-world tragedy risks sensationalizing the events that remain painful for a lot of people. But they also provide the opportunity to explore human behaviour, to directly address the impacts of violence and trauma.
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