Marjorie Chan's A Nanking Winter is a show about the 1937 genocide of the citizens of Nanking committed by the Japanese army. The atrocity, which claimed the lives of at least 300,000 Chinese, is an often-overlooked tragedy, and Chan's story focuses on a young woman named Irene who has written a book exposing the truth about the massacre. Chan's play is inspired by Iris Chang and her book The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten......

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......

Leave it to CanStage to somehow, in the midst of extreme internal upheaval what is maybe their darkest financial hour, be simultaneously running two of their strongest shows by far in recent memory. In fact, Palace of the End (which closes tomorrow night) and The Clean House (which runs until March 8) aren't just good shows for CanStage, they would be amazing shows for anywhere. Hopefully, they can win the audiences they deserve, but......

Nightwood Theatre's production of eccentric playwright Sarah Kane's Crave opened last week (starring the charming Michelle Monteith) and Torontoist wants you to get free tickets! One lucky contestant with the ability to answer the skill-testing question below will win a pair of tickets to see the show for a performance of their choice from May 7-11. The play, Kane's second-last before her final "suicide note play" 4.48 Psychosis, will likely be h-core. It features......

The good people at Nightwood Theatre bring us the 22nd incarnation of the Groundswell festival, a works-in-progress festival of both established and up-and-coming lady playwrights. Nightwood has long been turning out extraordinary talent (Ann-Marie MacDonald's classic Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet was developed by Nightwood way back in the day), and this upcoming week of readings at the Distillery is sure to be fascinating, and a pay-what-you-can bargain. The week kicks off Sunday afternoon at......

Cast Iron, a one-woman show about an elderly Barbados-born woman in a Winnipeg nursing home reliving her early life, opened last night at the Tarragon Extra Space. One of the noteworthy things about Lisa Codrington’s first play, produced by Nightwood Theatre in association with Obsidian theatre company, is that it is written and performed in the Bajan dialect. [You can see what it looks like written in this Eye article.] Don't let that scare you......