Stratford’s Production Of “Paradise Lost” Is A Stellar Achievement!
STRATFORD, Ont. — That could well be a white lab coat that Lucy Peacock is wearing when she first...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 26th Sep 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review
STRATFORD, Ont. — That could well be a white lab coat that Lucy Peacock is wearing when she first...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 18th Sep 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont.— Nearly a century ago, Winnie-The-Pooh creator A.A. Milne wrote a...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 13th Sep 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Italy
The Stratford Festival’s 2018 playbill is now complete—and the final entry is an absolute winner....
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 8th Sep 2018 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Age
Cloudburst, Toto Too Theatre’s latest offering is a funny, profane, warm-hearted play about the...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 25th Aug 2018 | Adaptation, Canada, Festivals
By the time the assassination scene arrives in the Stratford Festival’s new production of Julius...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 11th Jul 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review
STRATFORD—We find ourselves immediately plunged into the opening shipwreck scene: sails flapping...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 10th Jul 2018 | Canada, Directing, Review
We’re not in a movie house. We’re in Robert Lepage country, so it’s inevitable that the famed...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 8th Jul 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review
The scene does offer some amusement. A benevolent Baroness has embarked on a key initiative in her...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 5th Jul 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review, Russian Theatre Abroad
Sarena Parmar’s new play, The Orchard, deserves to be met on its own quietly compelling terms....
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 27th Jun 2018 | Canada, Festivals, Review
It’s characteristic of the Shaw Festival’s new artistic regime that this summer’s lunchtime...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 13th Jun 2018 | Adaptation, Canada, Festivals, Review
STRATFORD, Ont.—It didn’t seem such a great idea 11 years ago when the Stratford Festival first...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 7th Jun 2018 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Gender
There’s a memorable moment in the Three Sisters Theatre Company’s production of Miss Shakespeare...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 21st May 2018 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review
If you lower your defenses, Theatre Kraken’s production of Cry-Baby is capable of providing you...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 23rd Apr 2018 | Canada, Review
Blink by Phil Porter, A Plosive production. Directed by Teri Loretto-Valentik Back in another era,...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 2nd Apr 2018 | Canada, Review
carried away on the crest of a wave By David Yee, Directed by Kim Collier. A NAC English Theatre...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 14th Mar 2018 | Canada, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, United States of America
Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart is a play fueled by anger. Anger at the political, medical and...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 1st Nov 2017 | Canada, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics
There are moments in TotoToo’s production of Bent that are as good as anything that this...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 29th Aug 2017 | Canada, Festivals
STRATFORD, Ontario — Our first encounter with the mythic polar bear dominating the Stratford...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 8th Aug 2017 | Canada
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. — The other night Tom Pidgeon, the Ottawa Little Theatre’s longtime...
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