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“Giselle”–A World Premiere Reveals Ivan Cavallari’s Contemporary Vision Of A 19th Century Ballet Through The Prism Of ‘Total Art.’

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 24th Apr 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Dance

The NAC dance program emphasized the fact that this version of Giselle, the first for the Grands...

“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 running at The Gladstone, has the advantage of being brief. However, the original title, Unidentified Human Remains And The True Nature...

“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).