106 stories by "Robert Crew"
With clear-sighted direction from Eda Holmes and wonderful acting, Tony Kushner play has masterpiece stamped all over it.
Shakespeare play is based on one extended joke that can confound modern audiences.
Shakespeare in High Park production, directed by Estelle Shook, relates ancient Rome to present-day Canada.
This 30-year-old play about a friendship that transcends all barriers, directed by Philip Akin, could have been more satisfying than it is.
One of the major problems with the performance is that almost everyone overplays every aspect of their characters and it is shout, shout, shout.
Richard Rose convincingly and compellingly examines how a different culture reacts to the familiar tale.
There is humour and deep sadness in Parents Night and The Bigger Issue, at Theatre Passe Muraille until May 17.
Nicky Guadagni pours her heart into play, but do we need to hear from people like murderess Myra Hindley and crazed aristocrat Unity Mitford?
Talented women can't do much with roles in Daniel Karasik play about a man who philanders while facing a terminal illness.
The obscenity of child soldiers provides the angry spark for Suzanne Lebeau's The Sound of Cracking Bones at Theatre Passe Muraille.
Elicia MacKenzie is a strong-voiced Polly and Liam Tobin packs charisma as Alferd Packer, but a couple of scenes are in extremely questionable taste.
Actors gracefully navigate their way through more than 50 roles, past and present, in A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room.
One character's main dramatic purpose seems to be telling, in grim, lurid detail, how to kill, skin and cook a rabbit.
Theatre for young audiences doesn't have to turn its back on notions of subtlety and intelligence in the name of broad entertainment.
A passionate affair between a 40-year-old man and 12-year-old girl resurfaces 15 years later.
Alessandro Costantini leads a terrific ensemble in musical adaptation of Roald Dahl story, at Young People's Theatre until Jan. 4.
The play is an edgy little satire about the continuing exploitation of women by and in the media, and the hypocrisy of those involved.
Despite the efforts of an outstanding cast, there is a sameness about the four main characters and precious little light at the end of the American tunnel
In Tom Stoppard's dazzling play, the scholarly hunt for "the truth" is only the tip of the iceberg.
A masterpiece it is not, but The Bakelite Masterpiece is a good and thoughtful piece of writing, acted with considerable skill.
Bella provides an unusual glimpse into the heart of a brilliant, selfless woman
SummerWorks hit delivers impish wit, refreshing incorrectness, but plagued by logical inconsistencies.
Young People's Theatre production on until Nov. 2.
Cymbeline is usually considered one of the late Romances or so-called problem plays. The production playing in Withrow Park, though, is a comedy, pure and simple.
Set against the backdrop of the Irish Troubles, Sean O'Casey's masterpiece belongs to Mary Haney, who brings Juno's agony to life.
