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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.

Armchairs, tattoos, and an online theatre magazine

When I started at Intermission, my world was limited to the confines of an armchair. Arts journalism was a high it felt dangerously fruitless to chase. The life stretched ahead of me was amorphous and frightening, a chasm filled with hand sanitizer and immigration concerns. It was worth crying over a spilled kombucha and scrubbing at the stain.

Speaking in Draft: Marcia Johnson

"The whole reason I started writing was to give myself work, because I just wasn't getting lead roles, I wasn't getting interesting roles, and I knew that I could carry them off," says Johnson. "My goal when I wrote You Look Great Too was for people to say, ‘Oh my gosh, yes, she can play a lead’ — and then I would never have to write again. Then it turned out that writers were more in demand. I thought ‘OK, maybe I’ll write a few more plays.’"

REVIEW: Here For Now’s Dinner with the Duchess is an aching étude on the cost of creative passion

Dinner with the Duchess is a tallying of an artistic life’s costs that builds a symphony out of simple presentation, resounding long past the final note.

REVIEW: Wights sizzles with ambition at Crow’s Theatre

While the play’s genre-straddling form feels slightly too ambitious for its concept, this sheer ambition is exciting, challenging audiences to think, while warning us that we can only go so far with words.

Announcing the winners of the 2024 Nathan Cohen Awards

The Canadian Theatre Critics Association has announced the winners of the 2024 Nathan Cohen Awards for Excellence in Critical Writing, including two writers from Intermission.

A Message from Intermission’s Editors

May Antaki and Maija Kappler, co-founders and co-editors-in-chief of Intermission, are stepping down.

Casting Announcement: what I call her

Here's the cast for Ellie Moon's play "what I call her," directed by Sarah Kitz, opening at Crow's Theatre this November.

Theatre this Week: Stratford Edition

Here are the Stratford Festival plays to see for the week of June 4 - 10, 2018.

Theatre this Week: May 28 – June 3

These are the plays to see in Toronto for the week of May 28 - June 3, 2018.

Here Are the 2018 Toronto Theatre Critics Award Winners

Toronto's theatre critics just announced their favourite shows of the year for 2018.

Telling the Story of the Murder Trial that Changed the Country

Fiction about a real-world tragedy risks sensationalizing the events that remain painful for a lot of people. But they also provide the opportunity to explore human behaviour, to directly address the impacts of violence and trauma.