Friday, October 9, 2015
Marie Lou is a split-level play, literally so in Leblanc's production, which gives us two characters upstairs and two down
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Friday, September 25, 2015
Monday, September 21, 2015
The most intriguing item in the Mirvish package is Gaslight, a psychological thriller from the 1930s
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 08:58PM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2015
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
For some half-dozen years, a favourite question among Canadian theatre audiences was 'how long can we hang on to Chilina Kennedy?'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:02PM[SHARE]Most live entertainments begin with admonitions to the audience to refrain from the use of recording devices of any kind. Not this one: it exists to go viral.
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Friday, September 4, 2015
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Written entirely in verse, The Alchemist's heady use of language makes it distinctive and hilarious
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:04PM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2015
The new Stratford production of Love's Labour's Lost begins, brilliantly, with Mike Shara arriving late
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Friday, August 14, 2015
Tim Carroll, the newly-named Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival, has never directed a play by George Bernard Shaw
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2015
The final three openings at this year's Shaw Festival are all, to some degree, plays about plays
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Oedipus is complex, but this production has him striking a simple continuous note of self-righteous self-pity
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:26PM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2015
f this Caesar strikes interesting but intermittent sparks off the play, The Comedy of Errors is, that rare thing in the Park, the complete deal, gondola and all
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Some moments are stirring, some moving, but the overall feel in the Panamania site-specific production is amorphous
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:30PM[SHARE]Friday, July 17, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Panamania pours out political drama and technological marvels with The Watershed and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2015
This is a Disney show based on a Disney movie (sporting of the Mouse to give us a production where the baddies are conglomerates) so it's history at two removes
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:07PM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2015
Peter Hinton's present-set Pygmalion suffers from a temporal flaw in logic, but packs an emotional punch
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Barrie is of course best known as the author of Peter Pan, he's otherwise been famous for his craftsmanship and notorious for his sentimentality. This play confirms the first quality and mak…
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2015
In this production, the incoherence that briefly disfigures the last scene all but destroys the first
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:39AM[SHARE]Friday, June 26, 2015
She Stoops to Conquer, directed by Martha Henry, also has an unexpected introduction but this time the surprise comes, not from the director's departing from the text, but from her returning…
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 02:34PM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2015
Stratford lends considerable heft to the Bard's not-quite-Shakespearean 17th-century-crowd-pleaser
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 18, 2015
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: The Musical boasts a proficient score and some excellent performances, but the story's point has been blunted and, consequently, its energy sapped
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