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iPhoto caption: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory production still by Dahlia Katz.
REVIEW: YPT’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is appropriately sweet
Director Thom Allison’s production embraces Charlie’s many incarnations and tones in a slick rendition that’s both fun sugar high and candy overload.
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.
REVIEW: Jasmine Case astonishes as a wordless slave in Young People’s Theatre’s Truth
Truth is a must-see for children and parents wanting to learn more about the American Civil War and all the baggage it implies.
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play makes theatre magic with… celery
This holiday season, Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre echoes with sounds of laughter, wonder — and celery.