539 stories by "Karen Fricker - Theatre Critic"
Two board members will stay on temporarily in an administrative capacity during a transitional period in which Buddies will rebuild the board.
Yes, they'd rather play in person, but creators of three of the nine shows are happy to share their work digitally around the world.
"I've had a lot of openings in my life and this is probably the most overwhelming experience," says actor Lisa Horner.
Huntley from England and Brampton's Crawford play side by side in the show, currently running till Jan. 2 at the Princess of Wales Theatre.
The excellent cast dig deep into the songs; the band rocks hard and the choreography offers physical expression of the intense, shifting emotions.
"The most important thing that he taught us was never underestimate your audience. If you don't do your best they'll know."
The production that hit Toronto this week " making headlines over the arrest of its lead actor in the Capitol riot " is meant to be as much rock gig as stage musical, giving audiences the sa…
"If we were grateful to them before, now we're indebted," says Coal Mine co-founder Diana Bentley. The tiny Danforth theatre returns with a half season of two highly acclaimed plays.
"Come From Away" stage manager stepped into a "time capsule" his first time back in the theatre since March 13, 2020. Shaw Festival performers cried when they played "Irving Berlin's Holiday…
Canadian actor Trevor White is 'nervous but thrilled' to portray an adult Harry Potter in the blockbuster play that picks up nearly two decades from where J.K. Rowling's books left off. It w…
'As a piece of art this play will do its job to educate people,' says lead actor Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah. The play is set during the G20 protests of 2010 when police kettled hundreds of pr…
'She's this great unifier,' says Fiona Sauder. The concert will use the 'connective tissue' of Parton's music to help audiences celebrate being together again.
For Akosua Amo-Adem, it's about being a Ghana-born Canadian, which she explores through standup comedy. Cheyenne Scott and Qasim Khan also perform in 'The Home Project.'
Toronto venue that started out as the Pantages in 1920 will now be the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre.
Blake served as a youth advocate this summer on the Stratford Festival's "R+J," an adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet." Her role included helping 14-year-old Eponine Lee as Juliet engage with m…
Both festivals are staging productions this summer in which the N-word is used. To some Black theatre artists, removing the word isn't a solution: 'If you decide to cut that term, you decide…
'They were in a continent filled with Black people and all they did was moon at the princess,' the playwright says about the Season 1 episode. In 'Serving Elizabeth,' she revisits the 1952 r…
The theatre piece presents the climate emergency as a generational inheritance that baby boomers and Gen X-ers have passed on to today's youth, and channels the fury of Greta Thunberg and ot…
While telling a story about playwright Edward Albee, actor Martha Henry holds a photo up to the screen: A photo of Albee, looking intensely at the camera and stroking a white cat.
The word "immersive" gets thrown around a lot these days, and in this case the description is merited: All of the elements of this production combine to place you at the centre of its distur…
From Shakespeare in the Ruff (stray wild animals included) to Guild Festival Theatre, from a remount of 'Alphonse' to Here for Now Theatre in Stratford, from 'The Motorcycle Monologues' to a…
'It was written in 1986 … all of the characters were affected by residential school,' says actor Tracey Nepinak, part of the all-Indigenous cast of the Stratford Festival production.
Theatre under the canopies allows producers to make full use of the audience space in 'joyful, satisfying heartbreaking' return
Both theatres are premiering their first plays of the season this week, and it's been a monumental and emotional journey to get here.
The circus acts include hoop diving, Cyr wheel, aerial silks, juggling and Chinese pole: acrobats scrambling up, spinning around and doing death dives off of vertical poles. Most thrillingly…
