Robert Cushman: Tomson Highway returns with a more modest work, a show whose principal revelation is that he is a first-rate piano player
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:04PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: It offers equally glorious singing, plus inspired and meticulous staging by the British director Richard Jones
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:04PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: Beckett is very much about obedience, while a play by Athol Fugard rooted in autobiography may move you to tears
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:04PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: We respond to the writing, though, less for its own sake than as one element in a tightly-wound theatrical experience
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 08:04PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: It withholds information so that it can have a second act while devoting most of its first to having the characters tell each other what they already know
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:20PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: Nothing On is an old-school British caper revolving, at a furious rate, around doors and underwear and sardines
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:07PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: The Shaw's strength, like Stratford's, has always been its comparative permanence
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:07PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: The play gets an excellent revival from a new outfit, Shadowtime Productions, directed by Dan Spurgeon on a set
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:45PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: There cannot be many writers like Albee, who commenced operations half-way through the 20th century and were still going strong at the dawn of the 21st
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:43PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: This isn't the most spectacularly performed Second City show ever, but it may be the best written, at least in recent years
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:38PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: Debra Hanson's sets are all right for the vernal second act, and very strange for the urban first one, which is dominated by a line of smoke-stacks
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:29PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: It's one of those in which he seems to be looking back on his achievements and wondering if they were worth it
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:29PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: The legendary circumstances of the original run may have given the play a critical status in excess of its actual merits
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:56PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: Every word, every wince, every nervous smile is perfectly timed, perfectly true: wit in the service of feeling
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:57PM[SHARE]'Most of the action takes place in Scotland, where the accents seem based on the idea that incomprehensibility is automatically funny'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:24PM[SHARE]The production, on an ice cold set by Lorenzo Savoini, has a certain visual style, though with plenty of oddities
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:24PM[SHARE]'Mengesha's direction is spare, clear and driving, on an impressively raw set by Lorenzo Savoini, lit with pitiless exactness by Kevin Lamotte'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:25PM[SHARE]'From the first dark notes of the introductory Ballad of Sweeney Todd, this "musical thriller" musically thrills'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:09PM[SHARE]The Dance of Death is in repertory until September 10, Engaged until October 23
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:36PM[SHARE]Hamlet and All's Well That Ends Well alternate through September 4
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:22PM[SHARE]The standout? Dan Chameroy as Trunchbull, who 'brings something to the role and to the show that I never thought to see'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:54PM[SHARE]The two productions arrive at this year's Fringe as winners of the festival's awards for Best Play and Best Musical
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:23PM[SHARE]'The audience dutifully applaud as if they'd been given a happy ending though it is, at the most, bittersweet'
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:50PM[SHARE]Shakespeare in Love is in repertory through October 16; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe through November 5
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:19PM[SHARE]Macbeth is in repertory until November 5, while As You Like It is until October 22, both at the Festival Theatre
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:40PM[SHARE]The ambitious Scottish production will be put on by Sansom at the Luminato Festival in Toronto this month
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:40PM[SHARE]Reviews of Soulpepper's production of Incident at Vichy and the Stratford Festival's performance of All My Sons
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:01PM[SHARE]National Post theatre critic Robert Cushman and his son Mitchell Cushman, who is directing adaptations of Shakespeare's histories, discussed the Bard and his works
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 10:43AM[SHARE]A Gentleman's Guide is running at the Princess of Wales Theatre, while The Heidi Chronicles is in repertory at the Young Centre
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:28AM[SHARE]On The Harold Green Theatre's The Model Apartment and the Young Centre's The Testament of Mary
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 07:18PM[SHARE]'Our first sight of the Shaw Festival's Alice in Wonderland raises expectations and raises them high'
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