With a wink and nod of homage, director Thomas Alderson aims to send audiences out of ‘Grease’ with a love of nostalgia.
Is Alderson successful in bringing audiences back to a time when people felt joy and aliveness? While this audience clearly...
An intimate and deeply human theatrical experience, ‘A Conversation With Myself’ transforms anonymous confessions into a moving act of collective reflection – and it is a journey well worth taking.
(Guest writer Albert Mastromartino) By blending performance with voluntary audience participation, Michael Sachter Projects has created a work that sits...
While a promising world premiere celebrating Blue Rodeo’s music, ‘In the Key of Blue’ still needs a tighter book, cleaner pacing and steadier sound mix.
The first duty of a new Canadian musical is to prove it belongs on stage. In the Key of Blue,...
‘Cusp’ nods and winks to 1980s coming-of-age cinema while searching for its own contemporary pulse.
There is something endearingly earnest about Cusp, a one-hour late-afternoon opening that arrives at Toronto Fringe with its heart fixed...
Tahirih Vejdani delivers an assured performance, combining strong vocal command with a carefully calibrated sense of theatrical allure.
From its opening moments, the world premiere of Born to be Bad: The Villains of Broadway establishes a confident and...
VOICE CHOICE. Stratford’s ‘Othello’ offers a forceful account of Shakespeare’s tragedy, anchored by disciplined performances and a sustained sense of foreboding.
This Stratford Festival production of Othello earns that attention through a measured build toward tragedy and a series of performances...
Stratford’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ offers a visually rich staging of Wilde’s enduring comedy.
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at Stratford’s Avon Theatre emphasizes both the play’s verbal wit and its visual...
Theatre on the Ridge’s summer-season opener finds fresh emotional force in ‘Romeo & Juliet’.
Port Perry’s Theatre on the Ridge opens its 2026 summer season with a Romeo & Juliet that takes a confident...
Sara Farb’s bracing world premiere of ‘Love Us Most’ is directed with clear-eyed force by Sabryn Rock.
Set in the early autumn of 2016, Love Us Most opens on the sort of backstage space rarely granted centre...
‘The Outsiders’ arrives with the pulse of a contemporary musical and the heart of a classic coming-of-age story.
Can a 1967 novel written by seventeen-year-old Susan E. Hinton — later transformed into a 1983 film and a 1990...
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