“Oleanna:” SevenThirty Production’s Excellent Take on Flawed Script
David Mamet’s play Oleanna is about the power struggle between a university professor and one of...
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“Oleanna’s” Take on Sexual Harassment Holds Up Well
Oleanna, David Mamet’s then-startling play about sexual harassment and power dynamics, debuted in...
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“Welcome to My Underworld:” Collective Creation Compellingly Articulates the Need for Empathy
Dramaturged and directed by native Kingston and award-winning playwright Judith Thompson, the...
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Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” Explores Colonialism, Resistance and Liberation
Last winter, at the Studio Theatre at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Canadian actor...
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“Happy Days” at Theatre Kingston
The works of modern Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, largely absurdist and tragicomic in scope,...
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GCTC’S “Bang Bang”: A Fast-Paced, Funny Satire
You think you have a handle on the messy business of appropriation? Then you haven’t seen Kat...
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“Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story” – Form Gets In The Way Of Important, Heartfelt Story
Hannah Moscovitch has a rare gift for portraying sincere, nuanced relationships. To watch her...
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“Old Stock:” A Refugee Love Story and Debate Between Empathy and Voyeurism
Canada is built upon a core tenet of otherness; its populace is built largely upon the mosaicked...
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Mòshkamo: “Finding Wolastoq Voice”
Mòshkamo: Finding Wolastoq Voice reveals the founding cosmogony of the East Coast peoples. This...
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“Asking For It” at 1000 Islands Theatre
Following the production of The Boy in the Moon, put on by the 1000 Islands Playhouse in August,...
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Stratford 2019: “Birds of a Kind”- A Remarkable Dialogue Between the Author and the Director
“Is it really important to cling to our lost identities? What is a life lived between two...
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“The Pianist Of Willesden Lane”: A Triumphant Musical Journey With A Strong Contemporary Message
The Shoah has a well defined meaning in contemporary history but clearly, choosing to produce such...
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“The Unnatural And Accidental Women”: The Voices Of The Disappeared Still Speak To Us In This Immersive Event
Let’s be clear from the outset. This performance has absolutely nothing to do with Surrealism, nor...
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“The New Canadian Curling Club”: Delightful Immigration Comedy With Deeper Aspirations
In the context of these politically divisive times, the message of Mark Crawford’s recent play,...
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“The Unnatural and Accidental Women” in Ottawa
No two ways about it: Opening night of Marie Clements’ play The Unnatural and Accidental Women at...
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Trains and Transcendence in “Passengers” at ArtsEmerson
ArtsEmerson has invited its perennial favorite, the circus company from Quebec Le Sept Doigt de la...
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“The Ugly One:” Re-adaptation Attempts Face-Lift
Marius von Mayenburg, author of The Ugly One, representing the new young German Theatre, is...
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Stratford 2019: “Nathan the Wise”- A Parable of Tolerance
“ I hear, I hear, come finish with thy tale. Is it soon ended?” – Nathan the Wise There are...
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Stratford 2019: Perfect Production Lurching Forward Into Full-Blown Farce
Chicago. 1928. The hard-boiled boozy reporters on the crime beat are sitting around a...
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“The Crucible” at the Stratford: How Puritanism Predicts this Political Moment
Arthur Miller’s classic play about the 17th-century witchcraft trials in colonial Salem,...
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