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Toronto's 10-day festival of the arts features theatre, film, dance music and literary events, with a host of local and international talent. This year's fest includes a new stage production…
Here's one sure-fire rule for a successful Shakespearean production: just hire Deborah Hay and Ben Carlson to play the leads.
No call-centre positions to be outsourced.
The Shaw Festival's Ragtime is a good time, not a great one. The standouts are Thom Allison as ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker and Kate Hennig as anarchist Emma Goldman.
French for Dummies would have been a much more appropriate title for the show that opened at the Shaw Festival on Saturday afternoon.
You can't tell the young from the old in the confusing rendition of Misalliance that opened Friday night at the Shaw Festival.
10 prominent playwrights submit opening lines to inspire the National Theatre of the World. The improv that results is called the Script Tease Project.
Mass MOCA opens largest exhibition of Canadian contemporary art shown outside our borders, ever
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is facing the first labour action in its 60-year history, right on the verge of its Monday night season opening.
A contemporary postwar painting by Paul-Emile Borduas entitled Froissement Multicolore was sold for $663,750, including the buyer's premium.
Yo-Yo Ma is burning up.
Antoni Cimolini has a very different style from Des McAnuff, the man he's succeeding as artistic director of the Shakespeare Festival. That has tongues wagging in Stratford.
It's a real treat to see Graeme Somerville, playing the dutiful Richard Shannon, as the major dispenser of volcanic lava.
It is what it says: "60 Painters," an exhibition of squarely five-dozen Toronto (and at least tangentially Toronto-connected) artists beholden to the brush and canvas. And if that sounds lik…
The lead of this Noel Coward comedy should be "charismatic," "dashing" and "sexy" " in this Shaw Festival production he's not. Alas, the few good performances come in the minor roles.
For its Toronto debut, the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada is showing arguably its most unusual production, a ballet purposefully to highlight the social scourge of violence against women.
A unique life? Definitely. Her stage show made her a star, but still a level-headed one.
Global migration is bringing Latin America's theatre tradition of political activism to North America. The Panamerican Routes festival marries theatre and human rights.
Writers Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman are paired in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative
Suzy Lake, a towering influence on a generation of based artists, shows work new and old as a precursor to her retrospective at the AGO next year.
Jeremy Ransom is mining his teenage memories. For this year's National Ballet School Spring Showcase he's restaging a cheerful, technically dazzling work called Here We Come that hasn't been…
A painting by Jean-Paul Lemieux sold for $1.8 million at auction in Vancouver Thursday night, nearing the record set for the late Quebec artist's work last year.
David Storey's Home is a magical play that's been revived far too infrequently since it made its debut in 1970.
Lost in Yonkers is basically just the tale of the crusty old grandma, the grandkids who learn from her and vice versa.
It's hard to care about troubled couple Todd and Kali in Bryony Lavery's Stockholm, at Tarragon Extra Space until June 3.
