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Tessa Virtue performs at Fall for Dance North. iPhoto caption: Tessa Virtue performs at Fall for Dance North. Photo by Bruce Zinger.

REVIEW: At Fall for Dance North’s festival opening, it all came back to Tessa Virtue

This year’s Fall for Dance North opening programme gave audiences a multi-course feast that’s delish all the way through. Well, almost.

By Lindsey King / Oct 19, 2026
Gabriella Sundar Singh in 'Through the Eyes of God.' iPhoto caption: Gabriella Sundar Singh in 'Through the Eyes of God.' Photo by Jae Yang.

Through the Eyes of God makes noise at the 2026 Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards

The jury of the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards (TTCAs) has announced its 2026 results — 26 winners across 20 categories, plus a special citation.

By Liam Donovan / May 14, 2026
Amy Keating, Zorana Sadiq, Katherine Cullen, and Jean Yoon in 'Dance Nation.' iPhoto caption: Amy Keating, Zorana Sadiq, Katherine Cullen, and Jean Yoon in 'Dance Nation.' Photo by Elana Emer.

REVIEW: Coal Mine Theatre’s Dance Nation vaults into the feral, ecstatic mess of girlhood

Played by a cast whose ages range widely, the characters exist in two tenses at once: present-day adolescence and retrospective memory, living these tender years shadowed by the adults they’ll become.

By Lindsey King / Apr 20, 2026
Connor Mitton and members of the company of 'Sex Dalmatian’s Hot Holiday Spectacular.' Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh. iPhoto caption: Connor Mitton and members of the company of 'Sex Dalmatian’s Hot Holiday Spectacular.' Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh.

REVIEW: Sex Dalmatian’s Hot Holiday Spectacular is a peppermint-coated acid trip

Rock Bottom Movement’s surrealist mandate is on full display in this 15-dancer fantasia, which begins with an invitation to let go: “The only thing you need to know is not to know anything at all,” pronounces the Mayor of Sex Dalmatian, the evening’s narrator and the mayor of the titular canine’s mind.

By Liam Donovan / Dec 19, 2025