428 stories by "Robert Cushman"
Wilde reigns on the Shaw Festival's main stage, while George Bernard Shaw himself is confined to its smaller houses.
Stratford's opening week reaches its peak with Mary Stuart, a play that, in the special dramatic world of counter-factuals, reigns supreme
Des McAnuff's Stratford production of Tommy is a superlative feat of visual storytelling. McAnuff takes perfectly disciplined advantage of his new technological opportunities
It isn't quite indestructible (Harvey Fierstein proved that a few years ago) but it's the next best thing
The comedy isn't just a matter of individually humorous lines or even scenes, though Tim Carroll's production is exceptionally adroit at discovering and delivering these
Our Betters by W. Somerset Maugham, on now in a good production at the Shaw Festival, mocks the quaint belief that our own age is less moral than previous ones
Staged and performed with immense style, Of a Monstrous Child is a musical-intellectual collage that centres on, or more accurately swirls around, the figure of Lady Gaga
In 1998 in London, the Royal Family in attendance, there was a gala tribute to Cameron Mackintosh, the most successful of musical theatre producers then, now, and conceivably ever
The best thing about The Book of Mormon is that it all comes right in the end. Or nearly
Robert McQueen's version of a slightly older American musical, William Finn's Falsettos, is a fine production. I call it a 'version' because Falsettos has a complicated history
David Yee's Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave is a talented piece of work " but it nonetheless comes close to drowning in its own ambition
Nigel Shawn Williams, playing a lawyer in David Mamet's Race on now at Canadian Stage's Bluma Appel Theatre, gives a virtuoso performance
The only thing wrong with Soulpepper's production of La Ronde is the billing
The brothers in True West represent what the West mythically used to be, what has become of it and, by extension, what has become of America
Girth and vulnerability were constants in the career of Griffiths who died last week in England, aged 65, personally mourned, it would seem, by everybody who either saw his work or was invol…
This is a very American play by a Canadian playwright. Or rather: This is a very American play by a Canadian playwright
Robert Cushman: As I Lay Dying is a novella written by William Faulkner and now put onstage by the folks at Theatre Smith-Gilmour
Innocence Lost, about the Steven Truscott case, is being given a new joint production by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and the Centaur Theatre of Montreal
A middle-aged man wins tickets to a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters, and seeing it changes his life. That's the situation in And Slowly Beauty
The Tarragon Theatre continues its Hannah Moscovitch festival with a double bill of plays concerned in some way with children
"Who would have thought we were so important?" Rosencrantz asks Guildenstern towards the end of Tom Stoppard's theatrical memorial
Everybody, or so one hopes, wishes the new regime at Factory Theatre well. The new joint artistic directors were parachuted into their positions
It's only in the last stages of RARE that there is a mention of Down's syndrome. Judith Thompson, who directs, made a canny decision here
Abraham speaks with Robert Cushman about his upcoming east-end theatre
Two plays on now in Toronto are trips "Â though of markedly different varieties
