428 stories by "Robert Cushman"
It was an esteemed show, if not quite a hit, on Broadway 10 years ago and has been brought to us now by Acting Up Stage
My condiments to the chef
The two-character play was first produced by Theatre Columbus in 1987 and has since been established, if not as a Canadian classic, then certainly as a Canadian standby
The play has a cast of Stratford notables, with a sprinkling from the Shaw, all of them in the confined 100-seat space of the Coal Mine Theatre, acting at full exhilarating throttle
The good in the play outweighs the bad, and the current Toronto production, which comes to us from England
It might be said that, in his many seasons at the Canadian Stratford, Bedford reclaimed his British classical birthright.
'I remember looking at the Die Hard posters outside my local movie theatre. You never expect to see an old schoolfriend emblazoned as a movie star'
Could the confederation hip-hop musical phenomenon become a classic? I think it might
The year ahead will bring a mix of old and new productions
Small has been accounted beautiful for many years now, but 2015 is the year in which it seemed more beautiful than ever
Two anniversaries meet. Toronto's Young People's Theatre is 50 years old this year, and Mordecai Richler's Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang is 40, at least in book form
The great thing about Bruce Norris' plays is that they contain no sympathetic characters
Richard Rose's production has a spare, versatile set by Camellia Koo, and a top-notch cast giving top-notch performances
What seems to be in question here is cultural appropriation, the ultimate straw-issue
David Ferry excels with a study in watchful desolation that withstands the closest scrutiny
Butcher is a devilishly clever piece of work, and it's almost impossible to describe without giving too much away
A dead author's intentions may be unknowable but a play's logic isn't " and its identity can be surprisingly flexible
But the fewer effects you use, the more powerful they can be, if you know how to use them
The play has been in various stages of development for several years, but this should probably be taken as its definitive version
Marie Lou is a split-level play, literally so in Leblanc's production, which gives us two characters upstairs and two down
The RSC did more than change the title, they changed the nature of the play
The monologue of a would-be murder plays with power at the audience's expense
The most intriguing item in the Mirvish package is Gaslight, a psychological thriller from the 1930s
Soulpepper first staged The Play's the Thing in 1999
London Road has the same problem all film musicals face: people breaking into song seems odd
