Theatre in Toronto doens't get much better than the current Soulpepper remount of their successful 2001-2002 production of Uncle Vanya, on at the Young Centre until Saturday. With solid performances by Albert Schultz, Joseph Ziegler, William Webster, and Diego Matamoros as the evuncular Vanya of the play's title, here’s a Chekhov that positively hums in its harmony with contemporary life. Characters get hurt, get drunk, get heartbroken, get abused, get kicked out, and keep repeating......

Soulpepper, that scrappy little theatre company from The Distillery, just released their 2008 schedule. If you haven't seen a Soulpepper play before, you've been missing out on some of the best theatre this city has to offer. This past season was one of Soulpepper’s greatest. Among other fantastic shows, the company put on an astounding rendition of Brecht's The Threepenny Opera and a hilarious staging of William Saroyan’s Time of Your Life. They also......

Last October, Torontoist was at a rather boring mass book launch at Theatrebooks. Among the books being launched was York theatre professor Don Rubin’s Canadian Theatre History: Selected Readings. Rubin, in classic Trying-Too-Hard-To-Be-Cool Prof style, bounced up to the podium to say how happy he was to be included in an evening with so many Canadian playwrights, because Canadian playwrights were such great "shit-disturbers." His reading was immediately followed by Susan Coyne reading from her......