‘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...
‘In the Key of Blue’ moves closer to its July world premiere in Ontario’s Prince Edward County
Several months ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Mike Trites, the Bookwriter and Director of the upcoming world...
A bold, intellectually charged piece of theatre. ‘The Caged Bird Sings’ arrives raw in feeling, rigorous in thought, and unafraid to leave its audience wrestling with difficult ideas.
The Caged Bird Sings reimagines Rumi’s ‘Masavani’ in a prison cell in which confinement is both literal and spiritual. Rumi...
‘Liars at a Funeral’ turns grief into gleeful comedy.
Can a funeral be funny? In director Aaron Jan’s hands, the answer is an emphatic yes. In his program note,...
