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Review: WINTER SOLSTICE at Canadian Stage
by Ilana Lucas - Jan 30, 2025

What did our critic think of WINTER SOLSTICE at Canadian Stage?

Feature: Ilana Lucas Picks the Top Toronto Theatre of 2024
by Ilana Lucas - Jan 1, 2025

What did our critic have to say about Toronto's Top Theatre of 2024?

Cast & Creative Team Set For WINTER SOLSTICE at Necessary Angel Theatre Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 17, 2024

Necessary Angel Theatre Company revealed the cast and creative team for the Canadian premiere of WINTER SOLSTICE by Roland Schimmelpfennig. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

COAL MINE THEATRE Kicks-Off 2024-25 Season With Canadian Premiere Of Annie Baker's INFINITE LIFE
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 6, 2024

COAL MINE THEATRE will get their 10th anniversary season underway with one of the most hotly anticipated shows of the fall season, the Canadian Premiere of Annie Baker’s most recent play, INFINITE LIFE, on stage September 6 – September 29 at the company’s Danforth home.

Canadian Premiere of INIFINITE LIFE Will Be Led By Jean Yoon and More at the Coal Mine Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jul 18, 2024

The Coal Mine Theatre will present the Canadian premiere of INFINITE LIFE, by Annie Baker, and directed by Jackie Maxwell. Performances run September 6-29, 2024.

Canadian Stage Sets 2024-25 Season Featuring Toronto and Canadian Premieres & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 25, 2024

Canadian Stage has unveiled its 24.25 season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Nightwood Theatre to Present MAD MADGE This Spring
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 7, 2024

Nightwood Theatre will continue its 2023/24 Season with Mad Madge, presented in association with VideoCabaret. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Review: WITHROW PARK at Tarragon Theatre
by Ilana Lucas - Dec 10, 2023

In WITHROW PARK, Morris Panych’s new play at Tarragon Theatre, we see a view into a neighbourhood a little less than 7 kilometres away from where we sit. Panych’s script is quippy and fun with a philosophical bent about aging, mortality, and the ability to start again at any point, but just like its characters, finds it hard to achieve balance between those two states.

Morris Panych's WITHROW PARK to Have World Premiere At Tarragon Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 18, 2023

Tarragon Theatre will present the world premiere of Withrow Park. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets!

Toronto Fringe Announces The 16th Annual Next Stage Theatre Festival, October 18-29
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 7, 2023

Toronto Fringe has announced the programming for the 16th Annual Next Stage Theatre Festival taking place October 18-29, 2023, with six unique pieces presenting dance, sketch comedy, a musical, and dramatic theatre, plus a dynamic selection of community programming. 

BREMEN TOWN Will Premiere at the 2023 Next Stage Theatre Festival
by Stephi Wild - Sep 6, 2023

Award-winning theatre artist Gregory Prest makes his playwriting debut this fall with the world premiere of Bremen Town. Bremen Town will premiere as part of the Next Stage Festival with six performances from October 19 to 29, 2023. Learn more about the play and how to purchase tickets here!

Coal Mine Theatre Unveils Lineup for 9th Season, Including Two Highly Anticipated World Premieres
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 27, 2023

Discover the upcoming 9th season of COAL MINE THEATRE, featuring two world premieres that promise to captivate audiences. Get all the details and dates for this exciting lineup of shows.

Review: PRODIGAL at Streetcar Crowsnest
by Ilana Lucas - Mar 2, 2023

What did our critic think of PRODIGAL at Streetcar Crowsnest? PRODIGAL, written and directed by The Howland Company's Paolo Santalucia and now playing at Crow's Theatre, takes place entirely in the kitchen of the wealthy Clark family over a weekend where the past comes home to roost. Patriarch Rowan Clark (Rick Roberts) finds out that he is about to come into a powerful political position, as his son Henry (Cameron Laurie) and daughter-in-law to be Sadie (Veronica Hortiguela) celebrate their engagement in the other room. Unfortunately for him, his prodigal son chooses that evening to return, mostly because he finds he's been cut off from the family funding to preserve their clean image under the added scrutiny politics will require.

Toronto Fringe Announces Next Stage Theatre Festival 2022
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 10, 2021

Toronto Fringe has announced exciting and expansive programming as part of the 2022 Next Stage Theatre Festival, taking place January 19-30, 2022 at the Ada Slaight Hall at Daniels Spectrum in Toronto. This will be the first time that Toronto Fringe has been able to present in-person offerings since January 2020. 

Nightwood Theatre Presents THE 35th ANNUAL GROUNDSWELL FESTIVAL
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 26, 2020

This November Nightwood's Groundswell Festival goes digital, offering an invitation inside the creative process with readings of brand new works from our Write From The Hip playwright's unit, led by Program Director Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, as well as opportunities to gather for provocative conversations and workshops.

Nominations for the 2020 Dora Mavor Moore Awards Announced
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 8, 2020

At an online media announcement - pre-taped in front of Meridian Hall with physically distanced protocols in place - streamed June 8 on the Dora Awards YouTube channel, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 243 nominations for the 41st annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

IMAGINE THIS Women's International Film Festival Announces Official Lineup
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 7, 2019

The 4th annual Imagine This Women's International Film Festival (ITWIFF), unveiled its 2019 official lineup. This year's festival includes a happy hour, screenings, screenplay competition, networking parties, and a Seed & Spark Pitch workshop. ITWIFF will take place from November 7-10th, 2019, at Firelight Studios, Alamo Drafthouse, and UnionDocs in Brooklyn, NY.

BWW Review: Soulpepper's Explosive Family Drama AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Crackles with Tension and Comedy
by Isabella Perrone - May 28, 2019

In a new production of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, director Jackie Maxwell guides a 13-person cast through the highs and lows of the Weston family during a family tragedy. In Maxwell and the ensembles' capable hands, Tracy Letts's delicate balance of comedy and cruelty is presented as fully as possible.

BWW Review: INNOCENCE LOST at Soulpepper
by Isabella Perrone - May 26, 2018

Soulpepper's production of INNOCENCE LOST: A PLAY ABOUT STEVEN TRUSCOTT is an intense look into a case that changed Canada's judicial system and divided a town.

BWW Review: A DELICATE BALANCE at Soulpepper is Sophisticated Dysfunction at its Best
by Taylor Long - Jan 30, 2018

Compared to the in-your-face absurdity of November's 'The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?' A DELICATE BALANCE displays a softer, more subtle Albee without softening the devastating impact. Directed by Diana Leblanc, Soulpepper's production simmers-exploring dysfunction through the lens of characters that are grounded in reality.