Dramas
This taut ‘Julius Caesar’ is simply glorious
Opening night of Halifax’s beloved outdoor summer celebration of the Bard, Shakespeare By the Sea, did not disappoint. This year’s...
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‘Ghosts of My House’: A raw, unsettling world premiere examines grief, memory and the difficult work of rebuilding
A mother (Laura de Carteret) and her three adult daughters: L (Siobhan O’Malley), M (Kelly Van der Burg), and B...
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A brilliant revival of Leanna Brodie’s ‘Schoolhouse’ at 4th Line Theatre in Millbrook is anchored by two extraordinary lead performances by Alex Pearce and Alexie DeLuca.
Brodie’s much-produced play is both a fierce and whimsical study of the one-room schoolhouse in rural Ontario in the early...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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‘American Devotion’ offers a periodically compelling fictional exploration of celebrity, media scrutiny, and private power dynamics. A tighter script would sharpen its dramatic momentum.
In this world premiere, playwright Franca Miraglia draws on an enduring fascination with Hollywood’s Golden Age, using it as a...
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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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