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A famed Canadian tenor is boarding Toronto's Titanic stop
Ibsen scholars have generally ranked An Enemy of the People fairly low in their man's canon, maybe because of its spirited straightforwardness
There's something almost unsettlingly attractive about the coincidental timeliness of The McGuffin Company's latest theatre production, The Things Between Us
With another edition of the fest in the books, Noah Love and Rebecca Tucker hand out a few awards from the week that was
JFL42 takes over Toronto's theatres and comedy clubs until Sept. 27. Here, Rebecca Tucker enjoys an evening with Paul F. Tompkins
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
First thing's first: You are not allowed to read another line of this review until you go listen to Mike Birbiglia's 2011album Sleepwalk With Me Live in full
The show that has opened could not be called good, but it isn't uniformly terrible either. It defeats expectation in other ways too
Three JFL42 shows in two days at Toronto's Sony Centre offered audiences three different takes on comedy
The Australian's first headlining show in two years was one of the most technically impressive sets you would ever see at a comedy festival
A new musical about Toronto's mayor will open Thursday night despite Rob Ford's cancer diagnosis
Mirvish is betting on the world's most famous metaphor and Angela Lansbury for its upcoming theatre season
The third edition of JFL42 kicks off Thursday night in Toronto. Here are some picks to help with your schedule-making
Kanye West defended himself after a video showed the rap star demanding all his fans stand up " including one in a wheelchair and another with a prosthetic limb
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
Inspired by Georges Méliès and Jules Verne, theatrical costumer Philippe Guillotel designs a steampunk Victorian retro-future for Cirque du Soleil's Kurios
Both also fold very nicely and usefully into the main action; of its kind, this is an exceptionally well-made play
'Lots of people want to do something onstage; Joe and Nancy are'
Molière wrote farces that tilt toward tragedy. The huge achievement of Laszlo Marton's Soulpepper production of Tartuffe is that it takes both aspects to the limit without letting either of…
It's Martin Luther King's last night on earth. He doesn't know it of course, but the audience does; and that simple contrast is what sustains The Mountaintop
For two married principal dancers with the National Ballet of Canada, a pas de deux is about to become a pas de trois
Charlie Gallant, a rising young actor at the Shaw Festival, gives an intense and compelling performance as Johnny Boyle in Juno and the Paycock
There is a strain of cruelty in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Peter Sellars' Stratford production embraces it, to the exclusion of almost everything else. The result is certainly striking. …
