Unique Pieces
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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Stratford’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ Turns Beckett’s Bleakness into Intriguing Theatre
In her programme note, director Molly Atkinson offers a succinct key to Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece: “There are two absolute certainties...
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A ‘Hobbit’ that dazzles the eye more readily than it stirs the heart
At its official Stratford Festival matinee opening, The Hobbit draws exactly the audience one might expect: families, children, and devoted...
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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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Dog Man and children’s right to silliness. Clean comic timing
Who reads a review of Dog Man: The Musical? That was the first question I found myself asking while writing this....
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Your Show Here.
Written and Performed by Daniel MacIvor. Presented at the Bus Stop Theatre in Halifax by reWork Productions and 2b Theatre....
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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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