Comedies
‘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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Audiences Will Find Much to Chew on in Theatre Aezir’s ‘The Shark Is Broken’
(Guest writer: Izzy Siebert- participant in ON Criticism: The 2025/26 Theatre Critics Lab, with partners – the Grand Theatre, Intermission...
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A weirdly surreal tale that keeps rewriting its own rules…Brilliantly bombastic? Mostly muddled? Or both?
Set in Victorian England, The Moors unfolds in a remote, desolate manor in the dank English countryside where two spinster...
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Lavish visual designs in the Grand’s ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ are stunning. Director Alastair Newton expands the subtext into text that may not sit well with some audiences.
Alastair Newton presents a visually striking stage design in this opulent theatrical production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being...
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Commentary: The Lovesick Lambs of Lombardi
Some emerging Toronto actors have embraced the ‘commedia dell’arte’ style of theatre in staging The Lovesick Lambs of Lombardi, now...
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A Refined Examination of Theatre Craft in ‘Cyrano’
Virginia Gay’s adaptation of Cyrano, now on stage at the CAA Theatre, presents a contemporary ‘queered’ reimagining of the classic...
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