428 stories by "Robert Cushman"
The play is a classic in its own country, and over the last forty years or so has begun to establish itself in England
The problem with plays about illness is that there's no one to blame
This week, Toronto welcomed tree plays on momentous topics, all presented with a high level of skill " and all suffering from a lack of focus
It was once said " by Peter Ustinov, who was half-Russian himself " that teamwork and Chekhov are incompatible
So, there's this medieval thug called Robin Hood and he robs the rich. Period. He's obviously operating on the sensible maxim espoused by thieves of a later generation
The Next Stage Theatre Festival is an ambiguous animal. It began, or so I've always assumed, as a way of giving a second airing to shows that had proved successful
From Franz Kafka a sartorially specific motherf--ker, the country's theatre scene was awash in outstanding works this year " so much so that no mere Top 10 list could hold every deserving sh…
I had always thought the imaginary child to be a crutch for the playwright rather than for the characters. This production has changed my mind
YPT's production of James and the Giant Peach, a musical based on the Roald Dahl book and directed by Sue Miner, has two great things going for it
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French geologist and paleontologist whose crucial scientific work was done before the Second World War. He was also a Jesuit priest
Mary Queen of Scots is a sovereign who has never lacked for theatrical attention. The James Plays are an ambitious attempt by a Scottish playwright and TV writer, Rona Munro, to even the odds
The acronym NSFW stands for 'not safe for work.' The play of which the acronym is the title has a further subtitle: Money, Sex and Photoshop
The plays are more successful at evoking a world than at making a point, but they still dazzle
Welcome to the graveyard. You'll be amazed at how lively it is. Spoon River is adapted, by Albert Schultz and Mike Ross, from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
'The historical novelist,' or so I once read, 'must necessarily turn history into romance, and romance will always lie with the deposed or threatened king'
It seems that hardly a show can open in Toronto that isn't a tribute to some troubadour or other
Rebel Without a Cosmos doesn't match its predecessor, but it has its share of giggle-worthy gags
Despite its awful title, Julie Madly Deeply is a delightful show
Ibsen scholars have generally ranked An Enemy of the People fairly low in their man's canon, maybe because of its spirited straightforwardness
With a cast composed of transported convicts, Our Country's Good, by the contemporary British dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker, is now touching down in Toronto for the second time
The show that has opened could not be called good, but it isn't uniformly terrible either. It defeats expectation in other ways too
If you are the monarch of a strictly Protestant 17th-century country, and you want to keep the job, try not to be pacifist, intellectually curious, sympathetic toward Catholicism, homosexual…
It's a critical commonplace that Romeo and Juliet were lucky to die when they did. If they had survived, their image wouldn't have. A Tender Thing is a reassembly of the play, if you will
There are cuts and there are cuts. There are also additions and substitutions. Two of Shakespeare's unruliest plays are currently on view in surgically altered or truncated versions
Both also fold very nicely and usefully into the main action; of its kind, this is an exceptionally well-made play
