Women. The majority of men love them with all their heart but for better or for worse they can be so challenging to deal with…
What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive, wrote Scottish novelist Walter Scott. In Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin…
Getting kicked out of 5 schools in 6 years totally sucks. Unless, of course, you’re a ‘half blood’ like Percy Jackson, the valiant sword…
The filter that playwriting national asset Daniel MacIvor uses to explain the world around him is forever unique if not downright peculiar. Aside from his…
Peace. Nations want it but few can maintain it. Conflict. No one wants it but everyone gets stuck with it on one political level or…
The thing about paternal figures is that they’re rarely on the same page as the rest of us. Needs and priorities are frustratingly just never…
Truth be told, it wasn’t until the 5th time that TorontoStage.com writing staff passed through customs and were flagged for full body cavity searches that…
The purpose of any project is to achieve a specific outcome determined in a meticulous planning stage. If the objective of CrossCurrents’s verbatim theatre creation…
Some say that mistakes are the only thing that any of us can truly call our own. And when we take possession, we do so…
You have to give it up for theatre’s movers and shakers at Soulpepper. When they strive to create ‘Family Festival’ fairing to entertain the masses…
Some works of art cry out for large canvases. Though it is sparing in its use of scenery or anything approaching spectacle, Kate Hennig’s The…
No need for any of the rough stuff in the Tarragon Theatre presentation of Kiviuq Returns where Unuit culture has come ashore with remarkable song,…
A political power play like no other in Canadian history, Christopher Hunt as Pierre Trudeau (left) lays it all on the table for a discouraged…
What is the true meaning of the holidays anyway? A time to celebrate the birth of an infant who would only 33 years later be…
Death is a bit of a tricky subject matter for theatremakers when the vast majority of entertainment loyalists prefer a compelling drama, a rib-tickling comedy…