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Posts Filed Under: Theatre

What to Catch at the 33rd Annual Rhubarb Festival

The Rhubarb Festival, which opens tomorrow, continues its reign as Canada's oldest celebration of new and experimental theatre, spanning two weeks, with more than 40 performances and over 100 artists.

By Carly Maga

Toronto gets to join the Party Safari with Tom & Gary's Decentralized Dance Party.

Egoyan Gets Cruel and Unusual

Cruel and Tender marks Atom Egoyan's highly anticipated return to theatre after an absence of more than 20 years. But Martin Crimp's unusual play is bound to leave some audience members perplexed.

By Johnnie Walker

Abena Malika's eyes avoid Arsinee Khanjian's bloody handprints. Photo by Bruce Zinger.

Plainly Stunning

In Penny Plain, Ronnie Burkett celebrates 25 years of puppetry with a beautiful performance in an ugly world.

By Carly Maga

Penny Plain and her reliable companion, Geoffrey. Puppets by Ronnie Burkett / Theatre of Marionettes. Photo by Trudy Lee.

Ten Questions With: Atom Egoyan

At Torontoist we love Q&As and profiles, but sometimes asking a whole bunch of people the same set of questions can be even more revealing. So that’s what we decided to do.

By Carly Maga • Illustration by Chloe Cushman

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Hell is Other People (You Met in School)

Emerging theatre company Arts & Lies is producing Sartre's No Exit. They've also tarted it up a bit—which, considering three of the actors are former students of their fourth co-star, makes for some interesting power dynamics.

By Steve Fisher

From L to R: M. John Kennedy, Jess Salegueiro, Danie Friesen, and L.A. Lopez make each other's afterlives hell in Arts & Lies' production of No Exit. Detail of a photo by Rosanna Saracino.

Change is Good

In its Canadian premiere, the 1960s-era musical Caroline, or Change is a big, bold, belting delight.

By Carly Maga

Sabryn Rock as Emmie and Arlene Duncan as Caroline, a mother and daughter separated by an important generation. Photo by Joanna Akyol.

Pain, Art, and Other People

The Canadian premiere of Christopher Shinn's Other People is another story about unhappy young people in the 90s that operates on the notion that the better it is, the worse you feel.

By Carly Maga

Petra (Tatiana Maslany) argues about love, art, and pain with an unnamed character (Mike McPhaden). Photo by Mercedes Grundy.
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Thank You, Come Again

Ins Choi's Kim's Convenience makes a graceful move from Fringe favourite to Soulpepper headliner. Now, all the world's a stage.

By Carly Maga

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is funny, scary, and heartbreaking as Appa in Kim's Convenience. Just look at that face. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.

A Few Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

Toronto gets another serving of playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig in Tarragon Theatre's The Golden Dragon, a story of miscommunication between generations and cultures that's more sour than sweet.

By Carly Maga

David Fox inspects the incisor of Anusree Roy, while David Yee, Tony Nappo, and Lili Francks look on. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.

The Penelopiad is Hilarious, Thoughtful, and Deeply Upsetting

The play, written by Margaret Atwood and now on stage at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, is hilarious and heart-wrenching.

By Saira Peesker

The Penelopiad, Nightwood Theatre

A Dragon Tattoo, and So Much More

Canadian theatremaker Robert LePage takes Toronto audiences on a visual, personal journey through modern-day Shanghai in The Blue Dragon.

By Carly Maga

Marie Michaud and Henri Chassé as Claire and Pierre, two Canadians seeking a new life in China. Photo by Yannick Macdonald
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Ten Questions With: Eric Peterson

By Carly Maga • Illustration and layout by Chloe Cushman

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The Best of the Next Stage Theatre Festival

There's nearly a week left in the Next Stage Theatre Festival, and 10 shows chosen to represent the best in Canadian indie theatre. Here are the standouts.

By Carly Maga and Steve Fisher

An innocent kiss at a party leads to imprisonment in Loving The Stranger or Recognizing the Invert. Detail of a photo by Alistair Newton.
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What to See at the Next Stage Theatre Festival

The festival starts tomorrow night, and these are the shows we're most excited to check out.

By Carly Maga and Steve Fisher

Simon Bracken and Leah Doz in Tomasso's Party, the first play from author Jules Lewis.
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Historicist: “The Warmest Welcome, At An Inn”

For more than 100 years, a modest hotel graced the northeast corner of King and York Streets.

By Kevin Plummer

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‘Tis the Season…to Go See a Show

There's no snow for fort-building, and skating is way too dangerous. For a different kind of fun, here's a round-up of holiday performances.

By Carly Maga and Steve Fisher

the cast of Second City's Dysfunctional Holiday Revue get a speech on the true meaning of the holidays from a depantsed Craing Brown. Photo courtesty of Second City Toronto.

A Chilly Reception

Theatre director Jennifer Brewin hopes to get Torontonians out of their comfort zone and into the seasonal tradition of outdoor winter theatre.

By Carly Maga • Photo by Nancy Paiva

Jennifer Brewin has gotten intimate with the Evergreen Brick Works.

Not a Walk in the Park

Optic Heart's Crush takes audiences into the barren landscape of an Ontario trailer park, with events you wouldn't believe—if they weren't based on real life.

By Carly Maga

Courtney Lyons (Sandra), Julian DeZotti (Martin), and Ryan Kelly (Ronny) turn the four walls of their trailers into one heck of a triangle.

Jesus Chrysler Needs a Sparkplug

Praxis Theatre's latest production tells the important but mostly unknown story of radical theatremakers in the 1930s, but gets lost in romanticism and a unique set design.

By Carly Maga

Nate (Jeffrey Wetsch) gets the spark going for Jim (Margaret Evans) in Jesus Chrysler. Photo by Will O'Hare.
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Shaking Up Shakespeare

Toronto writers and producers Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col are trying to Kill Shakespeare in as many ways as possible.

By Carly Maga • Photo by Lodoe-Laura Haines-Wangda

Luckily, Conor McCreery (left) and Anthony Del Col (right) leave the vengeful pie-baking Titus Andronicus out of Kill Shakespeare.