Comedies
Stratford’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ presents challenges in its overlapping subplots and extended running time. This production addresses them through sleek contemporary staging and visually sophisticated theatrical design.
The production relies on the audience’s willingness to accept the play’s supernatural framework and enter its world of fairies, sprites...
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Here for Now World Premiere is haunting, yet elusive.
If the end of the world is coming, Julia Lederer’s I Am An Island imagines it arriving not with panic,...
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Crow’s and The Grand’s ‘Primary Trust’ gives a nimble production to a script that never tightens the screws
Mouldy walls, graffiti tags, and electrical wiring. Tufts of grass sprouting through cracks in the concrete. There is even a...
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‘Sugar Road’ turns Rom-Com Familiarity into Something More Tender.
Kristen Da Silva’s Sugar Road opens with a premise tailor-made for the Thousand Islands theatre: at a fading fairground, Hannah...
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Wonderful histrionics with a sentimental underbelly
A simple, haunting melody followed by the crash of thunder as a spotlight reveals and follows Delilah Bennett (Genevieve Steele)...
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‘Women of the Fur Trade’ remains a resolutely sharp production of biting satire and poignant regret.
Canada, let’s keep learning more about Indigenous peoples and their gifts to the country because it’s worth it. This knowledge...
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Bloor West Village Players
About THE COTTAGE by Sandy Rustin The true meaning of fate, identity, and marriage are called into question as a...
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ZOMBOCALYPSE! is a wickedly wicked, hilarious panacea for all the political and social identity blahs we have right now.
From the wickedly wicked creative mind of Eric Woolfe comes ZOMBOCALYPSE!, a hilarious throwback to the 80s, filled with big...
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VOICE CHOICE. One of Toronto’s best theatre plays in the city right now. ‘Dance Nation’ is brave, bold and uncompromising in direction, performance and movement.
I chose not to read the trigger warnings listed on the Coal Mine website for Dance Nation. I don’t have experience...
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VOICE CHOICE. A standout opening night for CanStage’s ‘Clyde’s’, highlighted by Philip Akin’s excellent direction and culminating in a surprisingly wicked ending. Highly recommended.
A production that blends comedy, drama and touches of magic, leaving the audience awestruck in its final moments, is truly...
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