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Rufus Wainwright heads up a creative team that is turning the Great American Songbook on its head, with men singing love duets to one another
The lethal romp A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder got a lot of love at Sunday night's Tony Awards, nabbing the best new musical trophy on a night that also saw Audra McDonald make Broad…
Chris Abraham's Stratford production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is an extraordinary mixture of magic and mishap
James Kudelka's Cinderella fits the National Ballet of Canada exactly the way the glass slipper fits the central character's foot: perfectly
Theatre is dead. The construct is tired. The economics are broken. The structure is artificial and, worst of all, dishonest
'I just know that people are interested in sex, feel squeamish, so I've got to capitalize on that'
There was a beautiful musical on Broadway this season: a show gorgeously scored, cleverly staged, profoundly well acted, and honestly moving
Girls star Lena Dunham and Late Night host Seth Myers are among the headliners at Toronto's third JFL42 comedy festival
You couldn't have asked for a more enthusiastic audience at Thursday night's performance of Flashdance " The Musical
Colm Feore's King Lear is a fine portrait of a father, a less powerful one of a king
A new arena version of Jesus Christ Superstar starring punk legend John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon and Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child has abruptly cancelled its 54-city tour just days befor…
The Stratford Festival's King John is a very good production of a play about a very bad king
The fat lady sang gorgeously " but she was not gorgeous to the eye
Once thought too painful to perform, Shakespeare's merciless & kingly tale calls out the best in those who present it, which this year seems to be everyone
The fancy name Watching Glory Die has been affixed to a decidedly plain play
Iranian actress Leila Hatami is facing calls she should be publicly flogged after she was photographed kissing the president of the Cannes Film Festival on the cheek earlier this week
This article is about the acclaimed New York City-based monologist Mike Daisey, and he will almost definitely not like it
The site-specific company follows a first-responder on a very tough call
The Shaw Festival's Cabaret proves, again, that there will never be a production of this musical as good as the first one. History " including theatrical history " is against it
Fiona Reid can divide a comic line into three parts, get a laugh on each without crowding the others, and still keep the sense and the rhythm unbroken
Don Quixote the literary classic runs over 900 pages. Don Quichotte the opera gets you out of the Four Seasons Centre in less than two and a half hours. There is some abridgement
Of Human Bondage is adapted by Vern Thiessen from the 1915 novel by Somerset Maugham, a book generally accepted as being partly autobiographical
The 32nd Just For Laughs comedy festival, which takes over Montreal for most of July, has announced its 2014 lineup
Plays about God move in mysterious, not to say frustrating, ways. Two of them are currently playing in Toronto
When I was starting out in the business I had thoughts about dropping the Epstein and just adopting my middle name "Fay" as my last name
