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REVIEW: In Ronnie Burkett’s darkly intelligent Wonderful Joe, gentrification hits like a meteor

When Siminovitch-winning puppet virtuoso Ronnie Burkett chose the focus of his latest play, was he thinking of TO Live’s $421-million plan to redevelop its St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts?

REVIEW: 13 Plays About ADHD All At The Same Time is true to its title

While the play’s structure may occasionally leave you feeling as scattered as its protagonists, its heart, humour, and raw honesty will keep your thoughts churning well into the night.

Speaking in Draft: Byron Laviolette

“Right now, the creation-to-production process for a lot of people is from the Toronto Fringe to — hopefully — some theatre recommender grants, to a workshop production, to maybe an actual production,” says What The Festival co-founder Byron Laviolette. “But the realities of mounting a show at the Fringe don’t translate to a two-week run at the Extraspace at Tarragon. Peoples’ appetites are different. Yet we don’t train or support people to translate their shows into those different contexts."

REVIEW: Goblin:Macbeth might just leave you gobsmacked 

While most of the entertainment comes from the goblins’ antics whenever the Shakespearean text is paused or subverted for comic effect, the secret sauce to this whole endeavour is that it really is an honest-to-goodness staging of that text, designed to showcase the performers’ near-virtuosic mastery of the material.

REVIEW: The Thanksgiving Play wriggles in performative wokeness

In 2024, is there a way to produce an engaging, culturally sensitive play about the first American Thanksgiving for elementary schoolers? The Thanksgiving Play, penned by Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse and now playing at Mirvish’s CAA Theatre, poses that question in its first five minutes, then throws the query out with the cranberry sauce in its madcap exploration of a devised theatre piece at an unnamed primary school.

‘What the hell do I do with all these puppets?’: Inside the wonderful world of Ronnie Burkett

“More than a few people said to me, ‘so this is your last show’,” says the legendary puppeteer ahead of his production of Wonderful Joe at TO Live. “Trust me, I never said this is my last show. I think that’s maybe a bit of ageism, or wishful thinking.”

Bringing Theatre and Comedy Together in YPT’s Snow White: In Conversation with Herbie Barnes and Aurora Browne

YPT has crossed the theatre/comedy barrier for an imaginative retelling of Snow White with an all-star double cast spanning both genres.

Thriving, Brilliant, Brave, Sexy Activism: In Conversation with Darrah Teitel

"If I was trying to change the world, Canadian theatre spaces are probably not the most efficient way to do that..but the liveness of theatre and the beautiful communal experience just cannot be replicated anywhere else.”

What I Wish I’d Known: Laura Nanni

Cultivate the same environment of creativity and fun for yourself that you wish for the artists and audience you plan for.

What I Wish I’d Known: Andrea Donaldson

I believe in a huge distinction between pressure and stress. One is exciting and passionate and one is toxic.

What I Wish I’d Known: Blood Pact Theatre

Be excellent to each other.

What I Wish I’d Known: Johnnie Walker

You’re going in the right direction, even if the journey winds up taking longer than you planned for.