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Gillian Gallow

iPhoto caption: Louise Pitre in 'Kimberly Akimbo.' Photo by Emelia Hellman.

REVIEW: Mirvish’s well-cast Kimberly Akimbo never stops surprising

The simple and the unconventional meld radiantly throughout Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony Award-dominating 2021 musical.

By Liam Donovan / Jan 21, 2026
iPhoto caption: Design rendering for 'A Doll's House,' set designed by Gillian Gallow and directed by Brendan Healy for Canadian Stage.

In Canadian Stage’s A Doll’s House, the house is a window within

“It is more about how Nora feels inside the space,” says set and costume designer Gillian Gallow. “It's also that difference between house and home — the house is the object, but the home is actually the feeling.”

By Mira Miller / Jan 15, 2026
The cast of 'Major Barbara.' iPhoto caption: The cast of 'Major Barbara.' Photo by David Cooper.

REVIEW: Shaw Festival’s metatheatrical Major Barbara is sharp and subversive

Director Peter Hinton-Davis draws on a light smattering of Brechtian techniques — acknowledgements of artifice that enrich and vivify Major Barbara’s clash of morals.

By Liam Donovan / Jun 25, 2025
iPhoto caption: Karen Hines. Photo by David Leyes.

In Conversation: Karen Hines

“The show must go on” is not true. We could have laid this one to bed. But I think it’s been a real treat for us to rally around this little project, embrace this humble medium, and make something.

By Robyn Grant-Moran / Apr 3, 2020