Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Invisibility cloaks, cardboard rockets, and flying orbs of light: Here’s how Canadian theatre uses the art of magic

In many ways, theatre artists and magicians have the same job. We push the bounds of a live experience to startle audiences into confronting their realities. We aim to tell stories that linger. For a magician, there’s no such thing as “it can’t be done.” It can always be done, one way or another.

The Flip Side: A Changeable World

This week in theatre news: plays about gun control are opening in Philadelphia and L.A., we find out what comes next for Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Hermione meets Hermione.

The Flip Side: A Sense of Community

Grey ribbons, funeral protection, “love is love”: the theatre community is banding together in the wake of last weekend’s mass shooting at an Orlando gay club.