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REVIEW: Tom Rooney dazzles in world premiere of Michael Healey’s Rogers v. Rogers

Rooney and Healey skewer the Rogers family with a disarmingly relaxed virtuosity that the surrounding Crow's Theatre production sometimes supports, and sometimes lets down.

REVIEW: National Ballet’s scrumptious Nutcracker will melt every last Grinch-heart in town

James Kudelka’s Nutcracker treats children as imaginative equals and adults as worthy of a sprinkling of magic, too. It’s an unwavering, saturated dream of joy you never want to wake up from.

REVIEW: Family tensions run high in TIFT’s intimate Twelve Dinners

In the now-closed Twelve Dinners, an autobiographical play written and directed by Steve Ross, audiences received intimate access to an unvarnished version of a younger Ross through 12 evening meals with his parents.

REVIEW: Bad Hats’ Narnia is a joyful, heartwarming escape

The spirit of openness and the joy of discovery rule over this Narnia. Open the wardrobe and see.

REVIEW: Canadian Stage’s Robin Hood panto is anti-capitalist fun for the whole family

Following Ross Petty’s legacy of scene-stealing, Damien Atkins as the evil Prince John is easily the greatest delight of the show.

REVIEW: Lester Trips’ stylish Public Consumption captures the internet’s profound emptiness

Rather than directly representing online life, Public Consumption speculates — with virtuosity — about how the digital world affects our bodies. And the show's findings are by no means comfortable.