There is only one opportunity left to see Particularly in the Heartland, a fantastic show from a New York-based company Torontoist mentioned the other day. After its matinee tomorrow at 3:00pm, the show closes and the New World Stage will start gearing up for its next show. Collective creation theatre is so popular in this city this week you'd think it was the 1970s. But if these created-by-the-ensemble plays are going to keep being......

Remember the New World Stage Festival? Well, it's still happening! Last night, an exciting-sounding show opened at the Premiere Dance Theatre for a brief run. The show is called Particularly in the Heartland, and it's a collective piece by NYC-based theatre group TEAM (Theatre of the Emerging American Moment). Particularly in the Heartland is a show about America, so it of course involves aliens, tornados and The Rapture. The last play at New World......

It's a fascinating choice during the extended commercial ramp-up to Valentines day: while dollar stores overstock cinnamon hearts, the six o' clock news compares deals on roses and even Torontoists toil at sourcing the best Valentines day activities for your romantic entertainment, Harbourfront Centre's New World Stage brings us a grim, gutteral, fluid, hilarious and unflinchingly human exploration of the myth of a man whose desire gets him devoured by a pack of his own......

This week's biggest opening was surely Mabou Mines DollHouse, which kicked off the 2007 New World Stage International Performance (the reboot of the old World Stage Festival) over at the Premiere Dance Theatre. The New York-based company's interpretation of Ibsen's A Doll House is bizarre and at times confusing. It is also as vital and thrilling a piece of theatre as you are likely to see this year. Torontoist urges you with all its......

The big news this week in theatre (well, other than that) was the announcement of the newly revamped New World Stage International Performance line-up for 2007. World Stage disappeared from the radar for a while when Ontario decided DuMaurier wasn't allowed to sponsor it anymore - the last time it was here it existed on a much smaller scale, consisting of solo shows. But now, it's back and bigger than ever with 17 full......

For theatre in Toronto, anyway. Houses have reportedly been weak for World Stage: Flying Solo, leading the festival to offer reduced-price tickets to TAPA members. The Seven Lives of Simon Labrosse, a Carole Frechette play that Torontoist actually likes (don't get us started on Helen's Necklace), has been playing to underwhelming houses (except for the night the Governor General dropped by last week). And the cast of The Confessions of Punch and Judy has been......

When the federal government nixed tobacco sponsorship in 2003, it was almost curtains for Harbourfront Centre’s cancer-stick-addicted World Stage international theatre festival. But then new artistic director Tina Rasmussen came on board and figured out a way to cut costs: Turn World Stage into a solo performance extravaganza. World Stage: Flying Solo opened last night with Rosebud, a play about Orson Welles, and A Mobile Thriller, a play that takes place in an actual car......