Comedies

The Canadian playwright and screenwriter addresses the audience before the performance, framing the evening with reflections on theatre as a new...

The Shaw Festival has a long history of producing classic mysteries by such luminary playwrights as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,...

'Murder at Ackerton Manor' sustains its farcical momentum while keeping its whodunnit machinery firmly in place. Steven Gallagher’s Murder at...

Stratford’s Antoni Cimolino serves up a delicious final production as the Festival’s artistic director.   Antoni Cimolino must have had...

Following the spectacular 2024 Stratford success of his play Salesman in China—which, happily, Mirvish will remount next winter—uber-talented Montreal-based Jovanni...

“No, I don’t think poems will save us. And yet, and yet.” So once tweeted American spoken-word poet Sarah Kay,...

On the grounds of Scarborough’s Guild Park and Gardens, Guild Festival Theatre opens its stage to Tyler Seguin’s clever adaptation...

Stephen Leacock’s comic writing has long been admired for its dry wit, social observation and affection for small-town eccentricity. Groucho...

I waited to catch Halifax’s Shakespeare by the Sea’s Season Opener at a free presentation at the city’s acclaimed Main...

At times, playfully theatrical; at others, reflective and poignant life lessons for everyone, including the audience. Set in Darren Burkett’s...