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Gender and queer desire take spotlight in this adventurous spin on Shakespeare's classic mistaken-identity story.
Two acclaimed productions kicking off Toronto's Luminato Festival, RIOT and Swan Lake/Loch na hEala, are brash representations of modern-day Ireland's break from tradition.
The first act crackles in Miles Potter's production, but then the fog of Eugene O'Neill's moody masterpiece starts to set in, writes Carly Maga.
David Hirson's 1991 rhyming comedy becomes more than a cautionary tale in Tanja Jacobs' gender-balanced production.
Soulpepper's 13 nominations come after a rough start to the year for Toronto company.
The racism of 1935 is still happening today and young theatregoers need to talk about it, says Nigel Shawn Williams, directing for the Stratford Festival.
Just one night after a bomb threat cancelled season opener The Tempest, Donna Feore's staging of this beloved 1957 musical captivates the audience, writes Karen Fricker.
The Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company's production of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs is hardly unique in its artistic vision, but is certainly a strong remount of a classic.
The festival continues with its opening week after The Tempest was postponed on Monday night.
New season also includes a new play from Anosh Irani, productions that examine the internment of Japanese-Canadians and Black slavery, and a satire that turns the tables on men who objectify…
Also making cameos in Toronto are Mark Ballas of Dancing With the Stars, Logan Henderson and Drake Bell.
Controversial Daughter and Native Earth Performing Arts' Huff are among the works heading to Scotland in August.
The National Ballet of Canada's innovative Frame by Frame, based on the visionary work of Norman McLaren, makes its world premiere on June 1.
One Little Goat's latest production keeps in line with theatre's penchant for off-kilter stories and speeches, trading realism for poetic rhythms and metaphors.
After past hits such as Guys and Dolls and A Chorus Line, Donna Feore takes on The Music Man and The Rocky Horror Show, and finds their leading men have things in common.
We compared Frank N. Furter to Harold Hill, the con man stars of the two very different musicals onstage at the Stratford Festival.
Soulpepper Theatre production demonstrates that the lines of truth and fiction, goodness and evil, can never be drawn definitively, writes Karen Fricker.
Production about strangers intersecting at a luxury hotel in 1928 has an almost lethal dose of cynicism, writes Carly Maga.
The actors in How He Lied to Her Husband don't go full-tilt at the farce while acting styles vary in The Man of Destiny, writes Karen Fricker.
The Best Actress Prize goes to the three performers who played the role of Alison Bechdel in the acclaimed Toronto production of Fun Home.
Stage star Chilina Kennedy announced the launch of Eclipse Theatre Company on Tuesday.
Veteran performer Kimberley Rampersad tries a Shaw Festival feat: onstage in one show, directing another.
Talk Is Free is launching The Curious Voyage, a three-day experience that will send patrons to London for the performance of an unnamed musical.
The musical Jagged Little Pill is about to debut, but don't expect a nostalgic '90s jukebox. It's a show that tackles hot-button issues like opioid addiction and sexual assault.
The 2018 season, the first under new artistic director Graham Abbey, also includes remounts of The Drawer Boy, A Beautiful View and Blind Date.
