Fish Shak isn't what it used to be. Literally. Last fall, that place in Kensington that always advertised enigmatic "fish tea" turned itself into Bread & Circus Theatre Bar, one of the tiniest places in the city to catch a show and drink a beer. And Fish Shak Co-op is the name of the company whose production of Morris Panych's two-hander Lawrence and Holloman is currently enjoying its second run inside the former seafood......

Morris Panych shows abound in this city. In the past few years alone, we've had Vigil, The Dishwashers, The Government Inspector, Habeas Corpus, Take Me Out, Amadeus, Sweeny Todd and The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl. After What Lies Before Us, The Overcoat is his second Canstage show of the year - and it's only February! He has become a theatre artist of a very divisive nature - some people love his whimsical physicality......

What Lies Before Us is the new play by Morris Panych, one of Toronto's theatre auteurs-du-jour. This one is only written by Panych, though, and directed by Jim Millan, ex-Artistic Director of Crow's Theatre. It's the story of two geographical surveyors stuck in the Rockies in pre-Railroad Canada with only a Chinese-speaking "manservant" to keep them company. The play suffers a bit from neither-fish-nor-fowl syndrome. The first act plays like an historical comedy and......

Torontoist attended the much-touted opening of CanStage's season last night - Alan Bennett's 1973 sex farce Habeas Corpus. We've long been great admirers of Morris Panych, and generally find his work to be some of the most interesting on Toronto's stages, and we naturally want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but we neither share nor understand his fondness for Alan Bennett. The world of Habeas Corpus is full of doctors who......

Torontoist has a contest running to see who can fall asleep in the most Martha Henry plays. We didn't mean to initiate this contest. We were just very tired as we sat in the front row at the opening night of Copenhagen at the Winter Garden Theatre a few months back. Ms. Henry, a true veteran of Canadian stage and screen, was very good. It's just that the lighting was so mellow, and those fake......