Friday, January 16, 2015
So, there's this medieval thug called Robin Hood and he robs the rich. Period. He's obviously operating on the sensible maxim espoused by thieves of a later generation
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:13PM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2015
The Next Stage Theatre Festival is an ambiguous animal. It began, or so I've always assumed, as a way of giving a second airing to shows that had proved successful
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:55PM[SHARE]Friday, December 26, 2014
From Franz Kafka a sartorially specific motherf--ker, the country's theatre scene was awash in outstanding works this year " so much so that no mere Top 10 list could hold every deserving sh…
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:26PM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2014
I had always thought the imaginary child to be a crutch for the playwright rather than for the characters. This production has changed my mind
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:15PM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2014
YPT's production of James and the Giant Peach, a musical based on the Roald Dahl book and directed by Sue Miner, has two great things going for it
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:33PM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2014
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French geologist and paleontologist whose crucial scientific work was done before the Second World War. He was also a Jesuit priest
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:15PM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2014
Mary Queen of Scots is a sovereign who has never lacked for theatrical attention. The James Plays are an ambitious attempt by a Scottish playwright and TV writer, Rona Munro, to even the odds
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:45AM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2014
The acronym NSFW stands for 'not safe for work.' The play of which the acronym is the title has a further subtitle: Money, Sex and Photoshop
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:38PM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2014
Friday, November 7, 2014
Welcome to the graveyard. You'll be amazed at how lively it is. Spoon River is adapted, by Albert Schultz and Mike Ross, from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 06:22PM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2014
'The historical novelist,' or so I once read, 'must necessarily turn history into romance, and romance will always lie with the deposed or threatened king'
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:41PM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2014
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Ibsen scholars have generally ranked An Enemy of the People fairly low in their man's canon, maybe because of its spirited straightforwardness
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:54PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
With a cast composed of transported convicts, Our Country's Good, by the contemporary British dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker, is now touching down in Toronto for the second time
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:57PM[SHARE]The show that has opened could not be called good, but it isn't uniformly terrible either. It defeats expectation in other ways too
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:16AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
If you are the monarch of a strictly Protestant 17th-century country, and you want to keep the job, try not to be pacifist, intellectually curious, sympathetic toward Catholicism, homosexual…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:02PM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2014
It's a critical commonplace that Romeo and Juliet were lucky to die when they did. If they had survived, their image wouldn't have. A Tender Thing is a reassembly of the play, if you will
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 06:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2014
There are cuts and there are cuts. There are also additions and substitutions. Two of Shakespeare's unruliest plays are currently on view in surgically altered or truncated versions
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:19PM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2014
Both also fold very nicely and usefully into the main action; of its kind, this is an exceptionally well-made play
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:15PM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2014
Molière wrote farces that tilt toward tragedy. The huge achievement of Laszlo Marton's Soulpepper production of Tartuffe is that it takes both aspects to the limit without letting either of…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2014
It's Martin Luther King's last night on earth. He doesn't know it of course, but the audience does; and that simple contrast is what sustains The Mountaintop
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 3, 2014
Charlie Gallant, a rising young actor at the Shaw Festival, gives an intense and compelling performance as Johnny Boyle in Juno and the Paycock
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 1, 2014
There is a strain of cruelty in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Peter Sellars' Stratford production embraces it, to the exclusion of almost everything else. The result is certainly striking. …
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 26, 2014
"A lady and a gentleman are making love to one another in the drawing room." That is the opening stage direction of The Philanderer, Bernard Shaw's second play, written in 1893
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 20, 2014
Friday, July 18, 2014
Friday July 18. A sad day for Toronto book lovers, and for theatre lovers both within and without the city
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 13, 2014
Shakespeare in High Park, formerly The Dream in High Park, took a notable step forward last year with its production of Macbeth, which was less concerned than its predecessors with playing g…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2014
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