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Girls star and creator Lena Dunham will give a sneak peek of her new book at Toronto's JFL42 comedy festival in September
The abrupt cancellation of this summer's North American arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar is heading to court
"A lady and a gentleman are making love to one another in the drawing room." That is the opening stage direction of The Philanderer, Bernard Shaw's second play, written in 1893
Edward Bond's The Sea is a great play up until its final scene
Friday July 18. A sad day for Toronto book lovers, and for theatre lovers both within and without the city
Dancing to decelerate and decompress the density and pace of urban life
Taking dance out of the theatres and into our daily rhythms
Brandy Leary has choreographed pieces everywhere from India to the Bata Shoe Museum, working in every discipline from modern dance to martial arts to aerial acrobatics
Elaine Stritch, the brassy, tart-tongued Broadway actress and singer who became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim's wryly ac…
All summer we're rewarding readers with (symbolic!) merit badges: To earn your dead parrot, escape the heat of summer with a Monty Python matinee
Tupac Shakur fans, keep ya head up: The Broadway musical Holler If Ya Hear Me that uses songs from one of hip-hop's greatest artists is closing after less than two months
Shakespeare in High Park, formerly The Dream in High Park, took a notable step forward last year with its production of Macbeth, which was less concerned than its predecessors with playing g…
There is no bad time to see some Shakespeare, but the consensus across the country seems to be that the best time for the Bard is the summer
In a way that's unique among musicals, the action of Company takes place in a split second
Steve Michaels, star of the Elvis Presley jukebox musical Return to Grace, is from Milton, Ont., though you'd swear he was from Tennessee
A tricky farce falls flat in Stratford's production
This greatest hits sets by comedy's biggest-ever troupe may even have added something " a dollop of affection
It's no great surprise that Soulpepper's production of Twelve Angry Men should turn out to be a spellbinder, not to say a humdinger
The actual Dora nominations seem remarkably classy this year, which I suppose is a critic's way of saying that nestled among the possible winners are most of those who were actual winners in…
The Shaw Festival's second round of openings pairs two classic comedies from the very late 1930s: one British, one American
Simon Amstell may not know much about Toronto, but he could be the best year we've had in years
A program note suggests that the musical (vintage 1966) is a throwback to the idealistic Rodgers and Hammerstein shows of the 1950s. Not really, unless you're thinking of R&H at their So…
Bertolt Brecht famously believed theatre audiences should never be allowed to forget they are in the theatre
Rob Ford impersonators, this is your time to shine
The generally accepted rule at for award nominees is that, when your name isn't called out in your category, you politely applaud the winner and concede your loss graciously " while you're s…
