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Posts Filed Under: Theatre

A Play on Few Words

The National Theatre of the World takes two pages of a script and improvises them into an entire play.

By Kevin Scott

Photo by May Truong
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Lights, Camera … And Everything Else

This Friday, the inaugural edition of 360 Screenings will give new meaning to "surround sound" by bringing beloved movies from the screen to real life.

By Carly Maga • Photos by Corbin Smith

20120412-360 Screenings-14- Photo by Corbin Smith

Layers of Reality in The Real World?

Tarragon brings back Michel Tremblay's play, with new layers of sophistication.

By Steve Fisher

There's technically only three characters in this photo from The Real World. Photo by Cylla Von Tiedmann.

The Shipment Has Arrived

An American-Korean director and playwright tackles black politics in a challenging script that's brutally funny, and just plain brutal.

By Carly Maga

Prentice Onayemi and Douglas Scott Streater helped Young Jean Lee form the shape of The Shipment.

Hurt So Good

The Canadian premiere of New York playwright Rajiv Joseph's romcom with a twist. Or, should we say, a sprain.

By Carly Maga

Janet Porter and Peter Mooney love and hurt in Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries. Photo by Guntar Kravis.
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Young and Restless

Emerging playwright Daniel Karasik gets meta with a play about twenty-somethings who don't know how to handle the opportunity their generation was born into.

By Carly Maga

Nathan Barrett (front) and Daniel Karasik (back) pit youth against youth in The Innocents. Photo by Jordan Tannahill.

A Real Full House

Eric Peterson becomes the grandpa we all wish we had in Soulpepper's You Can't Take It With You.

By Carly Maga

Patricia Fagan, Derek Boyes, Gregory Prest, Nancy Palk, Mike Ross and Eric Peterson make for a twisted family tree. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.

These Foolish Games

A brash 17th century farce seems a fitting end to Canadian Stage's 2011/2012 season—which shows just how far Matthew Jocelyn has taken the company.

By Carly Maga

Gemma James-Smith and Gil Garratt are clowns without class in The Game of Love and Chance. Photo by lucetg.com.

Mixing Hope and Anger Like Oil and Water

Newfoundland's Artistic Fraud brings the true story of Lanier Phillips, a black Navy man saved by the women of the coastal town of St. Lawrence, to Toronto in a well-intentioned but uneven production.

By Carly Maga

Jeremiah Sparks as Lanier, Neema Bickersteth as Adeline, Starr Domingue as Vonzia, and Mark Power as Levi in Robert Chafe's Oil and Water. Photo by Peter Bromley.

A Memoir Too Far

A staged adaptation of Marina Nemat's acclaimed memoir Prisoner of Tehran just can't do justice to the story.

By Carly Maga

Razi Shawadeh and Bahareh Yaraghi resurrect Marina Nemat's loveless marriage in Prisoner of Tehran. Photo by Victoria Scholes.

Race Is a Laughing Matter in Clybourne Park

The Pulitzer Prize–winning play about race and real estate in the United States makes a Canadian debut that'll have you laughing as you cringe. Linging?

By Carly Maga

Jeff Lilico, Sterling Jarvis, Maria Ricossa and Audrey Dwyer mince no words about racially-homogenous neighbourhoods. Photo by John Karastamatis.

Religiosity and the TTC

Kim's Convenience writer Ins Choi brings a Toronto sensibility to an Easter tradition, with his Subway Stations of the Cross.

By Krista Simpson (Guest Contributor)

Ins Choi performs his Subway Stations of the Cross inside St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church.

MacIvor’s Trip Down Memory Lane

Daniel MacIvor's new play at Tarragon is in some ways his most reserved, but it's an excellent chance to see Clare Coulter in action.

By Johnnie Walker

Jessica Moss, Clare Coulter, and Caroline Gillis reminisce in Was Spring. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.

My Granny the Goldfish Keeps Its Head Above Water

This family comedy straddles morality and cultures, but gets lost in the journey.

By Carly Maga

Don't point your finger at your grandmother-she's sassy and drunk! Kawa Ada as Nico and Yolande Bavan as Granny in My Granny the Goldfish. Photo by Nicola Betts.

Free Fallin’ at the Theatre

On now at The Theatre Centre, Free Fall '12 is a festival that celebrates theatre "without a net."

By Carly Maga

Image by Jonathan Goldsbie.

First Outing for Proud‘s “Prime Minister”

Proud, the play that caused Michael Healey's abrupt departure from Tarragon Theatre, had its first public reading Monday night. We went to see if the script might in fact invite a lawsuit from the Prime Minister's Office.

By Steve Fisher

From L to R, Jordan Pettle, Michael Healey, and Jenny Young, reading Healey's Proud.

Dying Hard is Hard to Watch but Worth the Effort

Mikaela Dyke's acclaimed verbatim play Dying Hard brings touching stories from rural Newfoundland to the big city of Toronto. And it's about time.

By Carly Maga

Mikaela Dyke has made a mainland success out of her coastal Fringe show.
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Luminato 2012 Program Announced

The sixth annual "festival of creativity" announces its plans.

By Carly Maga

Luminato will present the Canadian premiere of the avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass. Photo by Lucie Jansch.
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Moving Toronto to Tennessee

The Tennessee Williams Project is pairing independent theatre companies with a familiar name, but in unfamiliar territory.

By Carly Maga

Tour Toronto's neighbourhoods as your tour the canon of Tennessee Williams. Image courtesy of The Tennessee WIlliams Project.

free as injuns Sows Land That’s Already Been Tilled

Native Earth's adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms features fine actors on a rich set, but a new focus on dispossession overlaid on O'Neill's Oedipal themes doesn't quite take root.

By Steve Fisher

PJ Prudat and James Cade in Tara Beagan's Free as Injuns. Photo by Juan Camilo Palacio.