522 stories by "Carly Maga - Theatre Critic"
Part theatre, part history lecture and part salsa dance lesson, the show will challenge the audience to move their bodies as their brains take in Aguirre's words.
The sentiments behind David Harrower's 1995 play about a feudal couple mostly hold up, aided by strong performances at Toronto's Coal Mine Theatre.
You'll wish to hear even more of the winning songs of this show at the Ed Mirvish Theatre.
Friends, artistic giants and maybe lovers, the 20th-century twosome get a more personal examination in the North American version of this stage hit.
It's an entertaining look at three rich, intelligent people toying with each other in Harold Pinter's masterpiece but, as an exploration of desire and relationships, it's stiff and cold, wri…
Discount sellers, pay-what-you-can, even ushering at the theatre in exchange for freebies: Carly Maga looks at options if you're on a budget.
The cast ably delivers Shaw's text in marathon production, including Don Juan in Hell, but the production is missing a visual language to match its verbal depths, writes Carly Maga.
Instead of idly waiting for her family to reassemble, Hermione has taken a much more active role in articulating director Sarah Kitz's theme of patriarchal corruption, writes Carly Maga.
Jonathan Goad's production begins without assuming the girls have fabricated the illnesses that spur speculations of witchcraft for foolish, selfish reasons, writes Carly Maga.
After a busy summer for the whole family, father and daughter will appear in Shakespeare in the Ruff's The Winter's Tale together, writes Carly Maga.
What really makes this Front Page feel fresh is its social, gender, racial and character complications " things that a mainstream audience in 2019 is much more equipped and eager to investig…
Cross-gender and cross-racial casting bring it into 2019, but these interventions can't resolve the fundamentally cynical relationships in Shakespeare's problem play, writes Carly Maga.
The production has one of the most impressive casts in recent memory, but the audience is given no signposts to follow the story, writes Carly Maga.
People want to come to the theatre to feel safe, says co-artistic director Diana Bentley.
The music gives Shakespeare's text that extra flair that is a Driftwood Theatre signature, but the commentary on our social-media, phone-obsessed culture feels shoehorned in, writes Carly Ma…
Laara Sadiq co-star in the marathon event is 100 amateurs, rotated in over the course of a full day at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre.
New staging of Lerner & Loewe show follows more troubling takes on Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady and more.
By setting the comedy in Ontario cottage country in 1999, director Liza Balkan helps us digest some story elements that don't fit with 2019 sensibilities, writes Carly Maga.
