428 stories by "Robert Cushman"
For some half-dozen years, a favourite question among Canadian theatre audiences was 'how long can we hang on to Chilina Kennedy?'
Most live entertainments begin with admonitions to the audience to refrain from the use of recording devices of any kind. Not this one: it exists to go viral.
The historic form and function of Hamilton
Summer bows out, the festivals wind down, and the Toronto theatres gear up for a new season
Written entirely in verse, The Alchemist's heady use of language makes it distinctive and hilarious
The new Stratford production of Love's Labour's Lost begins, brilliantly, with Mike Shara arriving late
The writing is certainly racy, in the sense of both pungency and speed
Tim Carroll, the newly-named Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival, has never directed a play by George Bernard Shaw
The final three openings at this year's Shaw Festival are all, to some degree, plays about plays
The whole thing takes four hours, and I would sit through it again in a heartbeat
The title alone is worth a couple of looks
Oedipus is complex, but this production has him striking a simple continuous note of self-righteous self-pity
Artistic director introduced a new subtlety and elegance to Stratford
f this Caesar strikes interesting but intermittent sparks off the play, The Comedy of Errors is, that rare thing in the Park, the complete deal, gondola and all
Some moments are stirring, some moving, but the overall feel in the Panamania site-specific production is amorphous
Robert Lepage describes his new show 887 as a 'dive into the waters of my past'
Panamania pours out political drama and technological marvels with The Watershed and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
This is a Disney show based on a Disney movie (sporting of the Mouse to give us a production where the baddies are conglomerates) so it's history at two removes
Peter Hinton's present-set Pygmalion suffers from a temporal flaw in logic, but packs an emotional punch
Barrie is of course best known as the author of Peter Pan, he's otherwise been famous for his craftsmanship and notorious for his sentimentality. This play confirms the first quality and mak…
In this production, the incoherence that briefly disfigures the last scene all but destroys the first
She Stoops to Conquer, directed by Martha Henry, also has an unexpected introduction but this time the surprise comes, not from the director's departing from the text, but from her returning…
Stratford lends considerable heft to the Bard's not-quite-Shakespearean 17th-century-crowd-pleaser
Robert Cushman sifts through the nominations and makes his picks for the Dora Awards
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: The Musical boasts a proficient score and some excellent performances, but the story's point has been blunted and, consequently, its energy sapped
