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Back by Popular Demandby Estelle RosenKieren MacMillan is one-half of the writing team of MacMillan and Hutton, whose three musicals ("Fairy Tale Ending", "ToboR the RoboT", and "Robin Hood:…
GCTC continues a ripping season with a new play the company developed itself, Rosa Laborde's Like Wolves. The story is promising: a couple go back to the place they honeymooned; where the B'…
Michelle Giroux (photo by David Hou)High Spirits!Stratford's opening week ends with a triumphby Stuart Munro@StuartMunroTOMy week at Stratford has come to an end, and what an ending! The fes…
each other's resourcesEric Coates goes into the capital Fearlessby Jim MurchisonEric Coates has fast established himself, not just as an artistic director of an important Canadian thea…
The Devil is Making us do it...Welcome to a new feature on CharPo. Every once in a while a question has to be asked of people who love theatre which may be provocative or even incendiary. Th…
Steven Sutcliffe (photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)Buckle Your Swashes!Director Miles Potter helms an impressively large productionby Stuart Munro@StuartMunroTOThe seventeenth century is alive a…
Robert Markus and company (photo by Michael Cooper)Tastes of RealityThe spectacle of Tommy is mind-blowing, but at what cost?by Stuart Munro@StuartMunroTOAs the curtain came down on Tommy la…
Spinning for Spinning's Sake by Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonThe amount of dedication that it takes to do musical theatre is remarkable. The size of the productions at Orpheus and th…
Filming (Part II)by Cameryn Moore@camerynmooreWhen we last saw our intrepid heroine, she had just finished her first day of film production for the movie version of Phone Whore, and she felt…
"BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH" - AND OTHER WARNINGS OF THE FRINGEjoel fishbaneThe old timer was a veteran of the Canadian Fringe circuit. In the early 90's he toured several plays and enjoyed a …
Lucy Peacock (l), Seanna McKenna and company (photo: David Hou)A Tale of Two QueensStratford royalty reign over this astounding new productionby Stuart Munro@StuartMunroTOIt's not very often…
(photo credit: Jeff Busby)Taking the Risk to be Loved (and Hated)by Chad DembskiI need to confess that I do not know what to say about "Ganesh versus the Third Reich", that opened last night…
(via company website)Delicate and Strongby Jim Murchison Robert Harling's play is a well written if at times predictable story set entirely in Truvy's hair salon in the fictional Louisi…
The Mindby Jim Murchison @JimMurchison The mind is a curious thing. Learning lines for the play was way more difficult for me than it used to be. A couple of weeks after I finished doin…
Stephen Hegedus (photo by Darryl Block) Going to the Chapelby Shannon ChristyMarriage is considered by a growing number of people as an unnecessary evil. It is a huge expense on p…
Carmen Grant and Tom Rooney (photo by Michael Cooper)Moulded Out of FaultsStratford mounts a good production of a mediocre playby Stuart Munro and Dave Ross@StuartMunroTO@dmjrossMeasure for …
All the elements of Ganesh Versus The Third Reich, now playing the FTA, are here in Jeff Busby's superb photo: the swastika at the centre of the story, in the foreground the Nazi appropriati…
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Jewell Blackman (top) with Kate Henning (bottom centre) and company (photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)Tradition Abounds!This Fiddler may play it safe, but the effect is powerfulby Stuart Munro a…
A Drink in Hand, A Wedding to Organizeby Gaëtan L. CharleboisAgainst the Grain Theatre, a small opera company in Toronto, has become famous for presenting the best opera in a small settin…
David Cooper is one of the country's best performance photographers. Watch this terrific video of his studio at work with Dance Transition Resource Centre.
Daniel Brière, Sarah Topham (photo credit: Don Dixon)I Ne'er Saw True Beauty Till This NightStratford's new Romeo and Juliet is a refreshing approach to a well-worn classicby Dave Ross (@dm…
(Long (r) and Youssef (photo credit: Simon Hayter)WE ARE ALL WINNERS, WE ARE ALL LOSERSby Chad DembskiI can't think of a better way to review the Festival TransAmériques show from Vancouver…
Vacation Week Round Upby Valerie Cardinal@vscardinalThere are many good theatre reviews out there this week. Well, there are good reviews out there any week, really " this is just the week I…
