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REVIEW: The Massey Report shaped Canadians’ perception of the arts. These theatre-makers are rewriting it.

Joining online from across the Americas, more than a dozen artists, artistic producers, cultural leaders, and policymakers add live suggestions to the document, together transforming stuffy bureaucratic language into a rowdy patchwork of compassionate imagining.

Jonathan Church’s first Stratford Festival season serves up musicals, Shakespeare, and literature adaptations — with a helping of Saul Rubinek

2027 highlights include a new Canadian Jacob Two-Two musical and two of the Bard’s thornier plays: The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the Shrew.

How Stratford Festival dancer Devon Michael Brown leaps and pirouettes through Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten!

“It's so exhausting, but it's really rewarding when you get to dance so full-out,” says Devon Michael Brown. “You get to use your technique and your training to the fullest extent.”

REVIEW: At this year’s SummerWorks Performance Festival, physical storytelling is central

From a dancer becoming a canine to a shy theatre director practicing his swordsmanship, the shows I’ve seen so far use performers’ bodies to dramatize defiance.

MADGEN Theatre Festival returns to the Danforth

Theatre of the Beat selected four producers under the age of 30 to receive paid mentorship from Toronto theatre-makers. From August 20 to 22, each member of the cohort mounts a new one-act Canadian play.

REVIEW: High Park Twelfth Night pays tribute to the crazy things we do for love

As the play’s events ping-pong between seriousness and frivolity, Caroline Toal’s Viola appears constantly aware of the dangerous contradictions in the air, remaining guarded against the chaos' pull — and yet never entirely abandoning the possibility of enchantment.