539 stories by "Karen Fricker - Theatre Critic"
Emotionally gripping show that opened Sunday uses dazzling stagecraft and relatable characters to brilliant effect.
In Théâtre français de Toronto web series filmed at the Windsor Arms, Valmont isn't a hero and Merteuil isn't "the mean, mean queen."
In "Too True to Be Good," a microbe blames a patient for its illness while a physician has to choose who gets treated in "The Doctor's Dilemma," both part of the Shaw Festival's 60th season.
The production was on hold because of the pandemic for over two years before rehearsals finally started this past April.
Fatuma Adar, 30, does not have formal musical training. She started creating the music for the show by recording herself singing on her mobile phone.
David Suzuki, and his wife and professional partner Tara Cullis, are the stars of a theatre production called "What You Won't Do For Love," playing at this year's Luminato Festival.
Umeh, the first actor of colour to play the role, rivets attention in monologues that take us deeply into her character's thoughts and feelings.
"2 Pianos 4 Hands," based on the theatre artists' unrealized musical dreams, is back for its sixth major Toronto run June 4.
The show is musically strong and looks great, but large-scale dance numbers feel overextended and there's a spark missing in central relationships.
This much-adapted story has been given a smart and satisfying update by Johnna Wright and Patty Jamieson, writes Karen Fricker.
This year's opening is a welcome return for a workforce that was particularly hard-hit during the pandemic.
The company has revived its hit 1995 show, "The Cold War " Part One," one of Michael Hollingsworth's epic series of plays lampooning Canadian history.
The play presents "Black women in a way that I hadn't seen them portrayed onstage before," says director Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu.
The play's title refers to the school-to-prison pipeline, the policies and procedures that send a disproportionate number of Black students toward the criminal justice system.
Soheil Parsa is directing Beatriz Pizano in the play by Federico Garcia Lorca, about a domineering matriarch who essentially puts her five adult daughters under house arrest after the death …
"I love this world," says Luke Kimball, who plays Albus Potter. "Cursed Child" "takes a skill set unlike anything I've done," says Fiona Reid, who plays Professor McGonagall and Dolores Umbr…
At long last, the musical "Room" has opened at the Grand Theatre in London, Ont. It will play at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre April 5-May 8.
Drives to Sudbury and a visit to a Nebraskan retirement home, where some of the residents were passionate about the quints, fuelled Alain Doom's "Le Club des éphémères."
Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" play was written in 1897 " long before the internet " but there are resonances with catfishing, say key creatives involved in a production now running a…
Jewelle Blackman has been the understudy for Persephone since the show returned from COVID-19 hiatus last September; she takes over the role April 5.
"I just wanted to offer something of what I'd learned," says the director, writer and artistic director about "Other People," playing at Canadian Stage.
"The youth are the best, they're going to take over the world," Makambe K Simamba says. She thinks of her show as "a prayer for Black life."
Buddies has been in a process of organizational review and transformation since the summer of 2020, involving two outside consultants and a third-party review committee
The American playwright and Canadian director André Sills on bringing "Gloria" to Toronto for its Canadian debut.
Bright new initiatives helped chase off the darkness of the pandemic that was responsible for over $900 million in losses in performing arts during COVID'S first year
