428 stories by "Robert Cushman"
In Morris Panych's Wanderlust, Stratford's best musical this year, Robert Service is putting in time while dreaming of life in the Yukon
The two best Canadian performances this year are being given by Corrine Koslo and Ric Reid in Come Back, Little Sheba
Good, fresh stagings of A Midsummer Night's Dream do come along every so often
The surroundings may be different but the quality is the same. The writing by Michael Hollingsworth is pungent, the staging is brilliant.
Just over a week ago, the board of Toronto's Factory Theatre announced that they had fired their long-serving artistic director, Ken Gass
The musical hit in London at the moment, in fact the biggest in years, is Matilda
At the U.K.'s big theatre, Nicholas Hytner has presided over a long line of successes
I had the same reaction as everyone else to the announcement that the Stratford Festival would be producing You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
They play seemingly affable, cultivated men, whose gentle banter proves to cover great depths, certainly of sorrow and probably of shame.
The church scene in Much Ado About Nothing is one of the most notorious booby traps in Shakespeare, the point at which two major plot lines collide
The Matchmaker, at the Stratford Festival, is the richest and funniest production of a farce that I've ever seen in a Canadian theatre.
The most wonderful thing about Antoni Cimolino's production of Cymbeline, encompassing all the others, is that it takes the play as it comes.
It may be hard to claim Ragtime as the great Canadian musical. It's an adaptation of an American novel, with an American composer, lyricist and librettist
The program tells us that the 50-year delay in moving 42nd Street from screen to stage "isn't so mysterious." It isn't mysterious at all; in 1980 people weren't doing that kind of thing.
There are three women, no men, on stage at the start of A Man and Some Women.
Robert Cushman: In High, Kathleen Turner commands the stage with square shoulders and a hoarse but powerful voice suggestive of a heavy cold
Competitive cheerleading is not the deepest of dramatic subjects, and Bring It On is not the deepest of shows.
I like The Real World? better than any other Michel Tremblay play I have seen. It dates back to 1988, and it concerns a playwright who has written a play about his own family
As dysfunctional families go, the one in You Can't Take It with You is remarkably functional.
Sometimes there can be truth in advertising. The Exquisite Hour does run for an hour, or something just over, and it is exquisite, or something just under. "Exquisite" is pitching it a bit h…
Robert Cushman: There's an extraordinary scene in the second act of Oil and Water " extraordinary in a good way
The program for Prisoner of Tehran carries the subtitle A True Story. That phrase sums up the play's claim to serious attention. The things it presents really happened. It also sums up what'…
The first act of Clybourne Park takes place in an American suburban house of the 1950s, and it plays initially like a typical domestic comedy of that era. There's Russ, the householder, deep…
Of the seven surviving tragedies of Sophocles, two deal with the Trojan War: Ajax, one of his earliest plays, and Philoctetes, one of his last. Both are newly pertinent today.
One of the cleverest bits in Live Wrong and Prosper, the latest Second City revue, depicts childbirth as a long-range spectator sport. There's the father-about-to-be, tweeting each second of…
