It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice has one of the most perfectly balanced opening sentences in English literature. Its words aren't spoken in the a…
Harry Potter has travelled from page to screen " and now to stage
James Kudelka's enchanting 1995 version of The Nutcracker returned to the Four Seasons Centre on Saturday for its annual run, warming the hearts of audience members who battled the first rea…
A device that may work in a novel can seem like a thin literary conceit when transferred to the stage
You can see a bit of the tension melt off Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus as they settle into the cozy confines of Soulpepper Theatre's library in the heart of the Young Centre for the Arts
There's never a boring moment in God of Carnage, but there are few really arresting ones, either. As for Ross Petty's The Little Mermaid? It's visually beautiful and biting social satire
Like the indie source material of the film Once, the musical is a minimalist wonder
Aziz Ansari distances himself from the 'Pop Culture Comedian' to focus on real-life issues in Buried Alive
There's a party going on when you enter the theatre to see Once, and it's irresistible
One of Robert Lepage's finest but least celebrated qualities is his humour. There are scenes in Needles and Opium that are the funniest in any Canadian play in ages
On Nov. 25, the members of Monty Python (minus Graham Chapman, who died in 1989), sold out the 20,000-seat O2 arena in London in 43.5 seconds " 11 minutes faster than Iron Maiden
A ballet company could easily pack its seasons with classical war-horses and fill seats, but for true artistic growth you need to be a bit of a gambler
The set for the Off-Mirvish production of God of Carnage looks like the scene of a very stately bloodbath
An upcoming onstage reunion of the surviving Monty Python members sold out in less than a minute on Monday, as the troupe announced it would perform an additional four shows
I've lost count of the number of adaptations I've seen in recent years of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. After Miss Julie, by the British playwright Patrick Marber, is the only one of them …
This Aladdin turns out to be the best ever stage version of a movie
Producers are turning the lights off forever on the Spider-Man musical on Broadway early next year, as the show is now scheduled to limp away to Las Vegas
Big news in the comedy world: Monty Python is set to reunite for a stage show. Python member Terry Jones told the BBC on Tuesday he's excited the group is getting back together
Among other things The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble is a tale of two kitchens. Our visual clue as to which we are in at a given moment is the presence or absence of salt and pepper …
Winners and Losers' Marcus Youssef and James Long bring out the jest in each other
Chris Abraham on the challenges facing theatre in the 21st century and what the Simonvitch Prize means to his goals for Crows Theatre
The standout productions at Soulpepper this year have been the marathons: the two-part Angels in America and the three-part The Norman Conquests. Both, it's announced to nobody's surprise, a…
Swan Lake is arguably the most popular ballet and also the most challenging
A young man and woman, probably early twenties but maybe late teens, confront one another in front of what looks like a garbage dump, though it sports a sign saying that no garbage is allowe…
The National Ballet's latest is like a duck: smooth and graceful on the surface with a flurry of activity you can't see