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iPhoto caption: Photo by Virginie Meigné.

Animal puppets lay bare the effects of climate catastrophe in Dimanche

How can theatre engage with a crisis as enormous as climate change? One answer: go miniature. That’s the approach Belgian theatre companies Chaliwaté and Focus take in their co-creation Dimanche, playing at Meridian Arts Centre on February 21 and 22.

By Nathaniel Hanula-James / Feb 19, 2025
Ronnie Marmo as Lenny Bruce. Marmo wears a white button-downwith aa loose black tie. His head is propped against the microphone as if in defeat. Photo by Doren Sorell. iPhoto caption: Ronnie Marmo as Lenny Bruce. Photo by Doren Sorell.

REVIEW: I’m Not A Comedian… I’m Lenny Bruce at Teatron Toronto Jewish Theatre

This version of Bruce is sharp as a knife, plunging headfirst into some of the comic’s more obscene bits, highlighting his hard-fought battle over obscenity laws and free speech, and making his first Canadian audience delightfully uncomfortable.

By Jessica Watson / Jun 24, 2023

REVIEW: The Great Divide at the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company

Playwright Alix Sobler has a pressing story to tell, and she pursues the Triangle Shirtwaist fire's political context sharply, if not always consistently.

By Aisling Murphy / May 6, 2022
James Smith at a piano in a theatre with his back turned the camera. The theatre's fly rail is in the foreground of the image, between Smith and the photographer. iPhoto caption: Original photography by Gabriela Osio Vanden.

Outside the March’s Lessons In Temperament Gives Back on Film

"Through piano tuning, James has a found a language every bit as intricate and intimate as the nature of his family’s journey with mental health."

By Mae Smith / Nov 9, 2021