428 stories by "Robert Cushman"
Theatre 20 is a new company whose name derives from the number of accomplished performers who are its Founding Artists and whose mission is to revive interesting old musicals and to develop …
Tear the Curtain!, which has come from the west coast to open the new season at Canadian Stage, is a different world
There are three theatres in Toronto that are pleasant to visit, irrespective of what happens to be playing in them. All of them are recent buildings
The new soap musical combines cliché and uplift with songs that no one should be singing
Michael Healey's Proud is notorious as the play Tarragon Theatre wouldn't do, despite it being the last part of a successful trilogy for the theatre
There's a kind of hush all over the house while it's playing: the sound of an audience caught, held, rapt.
The best scene in No Great Mischief " really, the only good one " occurs in the second act & takes place in the '60s, in a mine on Cape Breton
There's probably never been a time since its premiere in 1949 that Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman hasn't seemed topical
Most Cirque productions have a story that boils down to someone going on a quest. Amaluna, with its classical underpinnings, has more of a spine.
Toronto has a new cabaret venue, the Flying Beaver Pubaret, which as its name might suggest, is in the back room " a long and elegant one
You win some, you lose some. Second City won with their last show, which was the best in recent memory. They lose heavily with its successor
What used to be Shakespeare in the Rough is now Shakespeare in the Ruff. What used to be The Two Gentlemen of Verona is now Two Gents
I doubt if any modern play offers more visceral excitement than The Crucible
The 2b Theatre Company from Halifax has an excellent track record that's further enhanced by When It Rains, their show at this year's SummerWorks
No more need to beware of Greeks bearing gifts, not when they are as gifted as director Thomas Moschopoulos and his cohorts.
There's a driving logic to the Shaw's production that makes the play come up fresh and exciting
Our critic has seen two productions of this play, and in neither has it registered as more than a succession of scenes.
At 82, Plummer remains Canada's premier actor: a position, it's sobering to recall, that he has held for more than half a century
There's a very good scene in the second act of Backbeat in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney write a song together
Soulpepper is bringing us American playwrights in matching pairs. They followed David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross with Speed-the-Plow
Daniel MacIvor's The Best Brothers, now playing at Stratford, may be the playwright's best play, even if it is one of his most conventional
Alon Nashman, an actor I greatly admire, is appearing at Stratford in a one-man play about John Hirsch, a director whose memory I revere
David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow is Mamet lite. It's also Mamet funny, and Soulpepper under David Storch has given it a tight, entertaining production
The Shaw Festival has mounted a very good production of what may be the most unnecessary play ever written
The best parts of Des McAnuff's production of Henry V, his last Shakespeare as Stratford's artistic director, are the beginning and the end
