Gossip no longer, culture vultures. We've finally got confirmation on CanStage's upcoming season. Like it or not, it looks like the rumours are true. As we reported before, the Bluma Appel Theatre's rather commercial lineup is entirely free of any Canadian-written shows, which has some folks in quite a tizzy. And as we suspected, CanStage is getting its CanCon through co-pros at the Berkeley Street Theatre. They're calling it The Berkeley Street Project, and......

Palace of the End, Judith Thompson's most recent play, is not only her most political work, it is also her best. As most auditioning actors in this country have discovered, Thompson's greatest strength has always been her monologues, and in this piece, she uses that strength to its full advantage. In fact, she dispenses with character interaction altogether and breaks her show into three long monologues, each spoken by someone who has been greatly......

American playwright Tony Kushner is one of the most important playwrights of contemporary theatre. He also remains conspicuously under-produced in our fair city. His landmark play Angels in America (since adapted into a popular HBO miniseries) has received only one Toronto production in CanStage's 1996 season, noticeably absent from any season at Buddies. It's unsurprising then, in a way, that Mercury Stage's production of Homebody/Kabul at the Berkeley Street Theatre, a play that caused......

Canstage opened its new season at the Bluma Appel with a much-ballyhooed production of Of Mice and Men (scooping Stratford's 2007 season), which resulted in Torontoist's inbox becoming full of e-mails requesting that we audition our dogs for the show (we declined). Things recommenced rather more innocuously at the Berkeley Street Theatre with the world premiere of The Story of My Life, a self-labelled "small musical." The two-hander is all about friendship and death. Or......

Ronnie Burkett has long been the patron saint of puppeteers - living proof that one can make a living by pulling strings. His marionettes are consistently beautiful, complex characters peering out of their carved faces, and his multi-faceted storytelling is always well-served by his theatrical ingenuity. Burkett's latest offering, 10 Days on Earth, is by far his most restrained show yet. It tells the story of Darrell, a developmentally disabled 50-year-old man with the mind......

Sorry we're so slow getting started today. This September-in-November weather groove has us thoroughly confused. Anyway, CanStage continues their trend of staging pretty much anything that has been successful on the stages of New York City in the past four years (not that we're complaining; we thought Take Me Out and Urinetown were the best shows we'd seen at the Bluma in ages) with Edward Albee's 2002 Tony Award-winning play The Goat, or Who is......

Dear Theatre Dude, I don't have anything to do tonight and was hoping to catch a play that explored psychoanalysis, nature and capitalism. If possible, I'd like said play to do this through story, question sessions and video projections. Thanks, Hard for Avant-Garde Yo HAG, You should, like, totally check out Revolutions in Therapy, which opens in previews tonight at Artword Theatre. Written and directed by Nadia Ross and Jacob Wren, RiT is totally like......

Une oeuvre du dramaturge Michel Tremblay, Impératif Présent, est présenté du Théâtre Français de Toronto (TfT) du 5 au 15 mai. C’est l’histoire de Alex et Claude, père et fils du Vrai monde ? trente ans plus tard. Habituellement, les femmes sont très présentes dans l’œuvre de Tremblay. Bien que les femmes rôdent toujours dans l'imaginaire de Tremblay, cette fois-ci, c'est la relation père-fils qui est mise en évidence. Le synopsis du TfT souligne :......

Molière est passé maître dans l'art de ridiculiser ses contemporains. Et il le fait avec grand génie et se moque du snobisme de Monsieur Jourdain dans le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, une pièce qui est actuellement présentée par le Théâtre Français de Toronto (TfT). Guy Mignault, directeur artistique du TfT affirme à l’Express de Toronto : «Le personnage du bourgeois gentilhomme, est une espèce de nouveau riche. Actuellement, c'est l'argent qui mène le monde. Ce bonhomme-là est......