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Diego Matamoros and Charlotte Dennis in Job at Coal Mine Theatre. iPhoto caption: Photo by Elana Emer.

REVIEW: Coal Mine Theatre’s Job is terrifyingly evocative and layered with suspense

Playwright Max Wolf Friedlich unpacks tensions around age, gender, politics, race, and class, painting a truthful yet unflattering portrait of the world we live in today.

By Gus Lederman / Apr 30, 2025
Nancy Palk & Diego Matamoros in Necessary Angel's Winter Solstice at Canadian Stage. iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.

REVIEW: Psychology and ideology collide in Necessary Angel’s austere Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice left me in a state of tension — pondering whether, in a similar situation, I’d be more likely to flirt with or kill a potentially evil man.

By Liam Donovan / Jan 22, 2025
dream in high park iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.

REVIEW: Dream in High Park offers an abridged, ethereal Hamlet

On the surface, this summer’s Hamlet is elegant and mercurial, an interesting enough experiment in what happens when you adapt Shakespeare for new sensibilities and constraints.

By Aisling Murphy / Jul 29, 2024
Production photo of a Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney at Soulpepper Theatre. iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.

REVIEW: A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney ‘cuts to’ the core of the man behind the mouse

Soulpepper and Outside the March effectively drown Uncle Walt’s highly manicured public image in acetone, leaving the audience with a grotesque portrait that feels at once comically exaggerated and painfully accurate.

By Ryan Borochovitz / Apr 19, 2024