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Credit Janeane Garofolo for announcing at the beginning of the show that "I'm not a great joke-writer"
Even if Sarah Silverman hasn't evolved much as a performer, her act itself has come a long way
Mulaney will bring his clever, self-deprecating brand of stand-up comedy to Canada next week when he performs at Toronto's version of the Just For Laughs festival, a.k.a. JFL42.
Ignoring the three mostly must-see headliners " Sarah Silverman, Aziz Ansari and the cast of Family Guy " here are five acts you should find a way to see at JFL42
David Mirvish has got a fever, and the only prescription is more theatre
The Invisible Woman makes Dickens himself a none-too-visible man, or at least an opaque one. It's reasonably enjoyable, but Ralph Fiennes, in his second outing as actor-director, brings to i…
Shakespeare in the Ruff made their debut last summer with a promising but uneven Two Gentlemen of Verona. This year, they really deliver
The outspoken playwright is back in Edmonton to direct his new play, and he's glad to be back.
Both supporters and critics of Dave Chappelle flooded social media sites with comments Friday, after he was heckled at a show in Connecticut and refused to perform his set
The 29-year-old actor started started off 2013 as Scarlett O'Hara in the first-ever theatrical adaptation of Gone With the Wind at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg
This production is thoroughly compelling on its own terms; coming one night after Othello, that other racial Venetian play, it constitutes a grand slam that might be a landmark for Stratford
This summer, Underhay is back for her seventh season at the Shaw Festival, where she has quickly become one of the leading ladies as well as a perennial audience favourite
Judith Thompson's The Thrill is a play that holds the attention while gradually forfeiting belief. It's stronger on speeches that on scenes, and has a large structural flaw. It is extremely …
Hume Baugh is returning to Toronto's Shakespeare in High Park after a 30-year hiatus " he played Lysander in the very first production they did of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1983
The new Stratford Othello is red hot. That goes for the way it looks, sounds, feels and takes possession
The actor's agent, Jamie Levitt, says Schellenberg died Thursday surrounded by his family.
The actor, who was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a serious leg injury, was not identified
The Stratford actor, returning for his eighth season at the festival, is having the time of his life with the role of Othello in Shakespeare's play of the same name.
In his latest venture, The Rascals: Once Upon A Dream, a hybrid musical/rock concert, Steven Van Zandt is looking at the stage in a completely new light.
John Murrell's Taking Shakespeare is a modest but charming play with some barbs to it. A young man named Murph, an undergraduate faced with flunking, is sent for special coaching
Back for his 11th season, Benedict Campbell is playing arms dealer Andrew Undershaft in G.B. Shaw's Major Barbara -- a role he first played five years ago.
For a few weeks this summer, longtime radio and TV personality Sook-Yin Lee will be bringing her hybrid theatre piece to Toronto's SummerWorks Festival, which kicks off August 9
Soulpepper's new production lights up nearly every moment of the marathon while returning the company itself to the level of acting magnificence that distinguished its earliest days
The actor gets to play out every kid's dream this summer as the swashbuckling, sword-fighting D'Artagnan in Stratford's production of The Three Musketeers.
Now, at last, the Shawfest has brought us Arcadia, the play generally regarded as Stoppard's masterpiece, and has given it, by way of further amends, a sparkling production.
