Posts Filed Under: Theatre
The National Theatre of the World takes two pages of a script and improvises them into an entire play.
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Kevin Scott May. 25th, 12:00 pm
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.
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Carly Maga • Photos by Corbin Smith May. 23rd, 12:30 pm
Tarragon brings back Michel Tremblay's play, with new layers of sophistication.
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Steve Fisher May. 16th, 3:30 pm
An American-Korean director and playwright tackles black politics in a challenging script that's brutally funny, and just plain brutal.
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Carly Maga May. 11th, 12:15 pm
The Canadian premiere of New York playwright Rajiv Joseph's romcom with a twist. Or, should we say, a sprain.
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Carly Maga May. 9th, 10:30 am
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.
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Carly Maga May. 3rd, 1:00 pm
Eric Peterson becomes the grandpa we all wish we had in Soulpepper's You Can't Take It With You .
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Carly Maga May. 1st, 12:30 pm
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.
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Carly Maga Apr. 25th, 10:30 am
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.
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Carly Maga Apr. 23rd, 12:00 pm
A staged adaptation of Marina Nemat's acclaimed memoir Prisoner of Tehran just can't do justice to the story.
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Carly Maga Apr. 16th, 12:30 pm
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?
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Carly Maga Apr. 9th, 3:30 pm
Kim's Convenience writer Ins Choi brings a Toronto sensibility to an Easter tradition, with his Subway Stations of the Cross .
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Krista Simpson (Guest Contributor) Apr. 9th, 2:30 pm
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.
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Johnnie Walker Apr. 9th, 12:00 pm
This family comedy straddles morality and cultures, but gets lost in the journey.
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Carly Maga Apr. 4th, 4:30 pm
On now at The Theatre Centre, Free Fall '12 is a festival that celebrates theatre "without a net."
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Carly Maga Mar. 27th, 3:00 pm
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.
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Steve Fisher Mar. 22nd, 12:00 pm
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.
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Carly Maga Mar. 15th, 9:00 am
The sixth annual "festival of creativity" announces its plans.
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Carly Maga Mar. 14th, 2:00 pm
The Tennessee Williams Project is pairing independent theatre companies with a familiar name, but in unfamiliar territory.
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Carly Maga Mar. 14th, 1:00 pm
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.
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Steve Fisher Mar. 14th, 11:00 am