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Daniel Maslany and Karl Ang in 'The Division.' iPhoto caption: Daniel Maslany and Karl Ang in 'The Division.' Photo by Dahlia Katz.

REVIEW: Andrew Kushnir’s The Division confronts the impossibility of fully knowing the past

Playing at Crow’s Theatre, The Division is a thorny, intimate work of theatre that examines inherited guilt, the relentlessness of eye-for-an-eye justice, and the seductive promise of being able to clearly define and banish evil forever, if only you could choose and label the correct side.

By Ilana Lucas / Apr 27, 2026
Production photo from The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare BASH'd. iPhoto caption: Photo by Kyle Purcell.

REVIEW: How Shakespeare BASH’d transformed The Merchant of Venice into a tense, layered tragedy

Julia Nish-Lapidus’ recently closed production sensitively explored the issues raised in Mark Leiren-Young’s Playing Shylock without purporting to offer any answers.

By Ilana Lucas / Feb 27, 2025
iPhoto caption: Adanya Dunn in 2017 production of Charlotte. Photo credit: Cylla von Tiedemann.

My 20-year journey with Charlotte

It started with an obsession, an idea I could not shake, a meeting with someone whose life seemed to hang in the balance, and for whom I might be a champion.

By Alon Nashman / May 20, 2019