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“Angélique” Suffers From Too Much Exposition And Not Enough Drama

Posted by Patrick Langston | 22nd Apr 2019 | Canada, Review

Life will be different this time,” says young, hopeful Marie-Joseph Angélique at the beginning of...

“Swedish Furniture” Is A Serious, Realistic Look At Millennial Relationships

Posted by Ryan Pepper | 18th Apr 2019 | Canada, Review

The latest play in the TACTICS Mainstage Series of local independent theatre, Swedish Furniture by...

“Crippled,” The USCIS, And The Importance Of Disability As Culture

Posted by Cortland Nesley | 16th Apr 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Disability

It seems simple enough. One is invited to perform somewhere, fills out the necessary paperwork,...

“Albumen”: A Living Hotblooded Art Piece

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 10th Apr 2019 | Acting, Canada, Immersive Theatre, Review

The Arts Court Theatre is the perfect intimate space for the experimental performance piece...

“Come From Away”–New Canadian Musical On Broadway

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 9th Apr 2019 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review

Come From Away, a relentlessly peppy new musical by the Canadian husband-wife team David Hein and...

“Love And Information”: An Excellent Young Director Extracts Order From Churchill’s Contemporary Chaos

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 8th Apr 2019 | Canada, Review

A talented young director brings order to Caryl Churchill’s purposely chaotic vision of the nature...

“Love And Human Remains”: An Excellent Staging Gives Life To A Dated Play

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 1st Apr 2019 | Canada, Review

The title of the play (Love And Human Remains) by Brad Fraser, written in 1989 and currently...

“Love And Human Remains”: Excellent Production Explores Loneliness In The Modern World

Posted by Rajka Stefanovska | 29th Mar 2019 | Canada, Review

Love And Human Remains explores the everlasting questions of human existence–who we are, what we...

“Behaviour” Is Essential And Traumatic-Socially Conscious Theatre At Its Peak!

Posted by Ryan Pepper | 26th Mar 2019 | Canada, Review

It isn’t easy to review a play like Behaviour, written by Ottawa playwright Darrah Teitel and...

A Feminist Documentary Play From Toronto: “Grace”

Posted by Berna Ataoğlu | 25th Mar 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Gender

Grace is one of two daughters in an educated family living in Canada. She loves her parents and...

Stéphanie Turple’s “Un-Countried”: How Regimes And Mindsets Change

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 18th Mar 2019 | Acting, Canada, Review, Theatre and Politics

Un-Countried, written by Stéphanie Turple, and directed by Kevin Orr shows what happens when a...

Ravi Jain’s “Prince Hamlet” Breathes New Life Into The Bard

Posted by Patrick Langston | 17th Mar 2019 | Acting, Canada, Review, Theatre and Gender

Just when you thought no one could possibly find a fresh interpretation of Hamlet, along come...

Robert Lepage’s “887” at the Hong Kong Arts Festival

Posted by Clement Lee | 4th Mar 2019 | Canada, Festivals, Hong Kong, Review

Theatre as a memory vessel is nothing new to contemporary theatre. There is a reason why types of...

Undercurrents Festival: Bark And Lots Of Bite

Posted by Patrick Langston | 4th Mar 2019 | Canada, Festivals, News

Raising Stanley/Life with Tulia Hard to fathom, but there are actually people who aren’t mad about...

Ravi Jain’s “Prince Hamlet”: A Meta-theatrical Reversal Of Disability And Gender

Posted by Abhimanyu Acharya and Sheetala Bhat | 2nd Mar 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Disability

Why Not Theatre’s Prince Hamlet, adapted and directed by Ravi Jain, is a performative exploration of the relationship between aesthetics and disability. Prince Hamlet is a gender-bent, bilingual play which uses English and American Sign Language (ASL).