Dramas
VOICE CHOICE: Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’, at the Stratford Festival, receives a deeply felt and finely tuned production.
Still a fixture in many high school English classrooms, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman remains a searing examination of...
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The Happiness Mandate in Bowtie Productions’ “Next to Normal”
Why shouldn’t we want to be happy? Why shouldn’t we do everything possible to feel that way? There go hundreds...
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VOICE CHOICE: Six characters in search of answers. A powerful and expertly crafted production lays bare in one hour the life-altering effects of mental health challenges on working-class and marginalized people, and the difficult realities faced by those who try to help them.
Mental health is everywhere these days, and we need to talk more about it. Maybe you know someone who suffers...
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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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I really wanted to care about the story and the characters in Pleiades’ ‘Karma’. At the performance I attended, I couldn’t.
An extremely important twenty-first-century play about the importance of the family unit and forgiveness, Aksam Alyousef’s Karma has moments when...
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Susanna Fournier’s massive and intelligent ‘take rimbaud’ becomes stunning and intense in the messiness of troubled lives.
Described on the Howland Company Theatre website as a love letter performance poem, Susanna Fournier’s take rimbaud is set in...
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‘cicadas’ is a tautly written thriller. Directed with an assured and conspiratorial wink by Nina Lee Aquino in a production that’s stylish, sly and often unnerving.
David Yee and Chris Thornborrow’s cicadas is an edge-of-the-seat tale that grabs attention from the top of the show and...
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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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A witty and deeply moving exploration of what it means to create, to have connection and a desire to leave something meaningful behind.
Love, legacy and creation collide in this fine production dissecting relationships and connection, Black feminist thought, queer love, and the...
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