580 stories by "Karen Fricker - Theatre Critic"
One looks at the cost of not talking to girls about sex. The other pokes fun at the sexualization and fetishization of Asian women.
Transcen|Dance Project has done excellent work in delivering a luxurious evening's entertainment, a local alternative to New York's "Sleep No More."
Makram Ayache's new play "The Hooves Belonged to the Deer" and "Metamorphoses 2023," based on Ovid's epic poem, produced by Theatre Smith-Gilmour.
Title character Anahita offers an insider perspective into gender, power and freedom in contemporary Iran. I walked away without easy answers.
His "sly, funny, charming" solo show about the practice is now playing as "The Land Acknowledgement, or As You Like It" " minus the Shakespeare bait and switch.
In "The Yellow Wallpaper" spectators hear and see images of a woman whose mental health is deteriorating. In "Le Concierge" they follow a silent high school janitor.
M'Carthy has gone from one- or two-person shows to the Stratford Festival to a Canadian stage doubleheader " and he's ready for much more.
Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes wrestled with serving both South Asian audiences familiar with the poem and people who wouldn't even know how to pronounce it.
Gorgeous production at Young People's Theatre set in the days before the moon landing is about facing your fears head on.
In an English-language classroom in Iran, personalities emerge, relationships form, secrets are revealed.
Play weaves together scenes featuring an interracial couple modelled on playwrights Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton with fanciful vignettes riffing on issues about race.
This play about the pressures on women to reproduce is difficult and discomfiting, and evidence Coal Mine's commitment to bold texts in bold productions will continue.
The story about how two competing weather forecasts affected the D-Day invasion in the Second World War builds tension into the unscrolling of weather maps.
The stage veterans play a husband and wife in Andrew Bovell's story of family relationships in its Canadian debut.
Camellia Koo's set is visually striking " tall diagonal wooden slats create a frame over the stage " and Leigh Ann Vardy's lighting helps shift location and mood in sometimes naturalistic an…
"Some Like It Hot" on Broadway does a spectacular job of it. "Funny Girl" not so much, despite the star presence of Lea Michele.
Interactive video experience offers deep dives into the Bard's works, allowing the festival to engage with people across the country and beyond.
This month Crow's Theatre is producing the world premiere stage version of "Fifteen Dogs," adapted and directed by Marie Farsi and featuring a cast of six.
Live theatre came back blazing to Toronto and the GTA in 2022.
The show's simple, hooky premise " a song cycle in different pop genres retelling the Biblical story of Joseph " is an opportunity for one spectacular musical number after another
New Soulpepper and TO Live production is updated with topical references while maintaining the dramatic situation and structure that are key to the play's success.
Now that his company's holiday pantos are coming to an end, Petty will take one final bow as Captain Hook in "Peter's Final Flight."
Gordon won a Dora Award for "Room" and starred in "The Doctor's Dilemma," with more to come in 2023. She's tired, but it's a "champagne problem."
Lolita Chakrabarti's 2012 play is an ambitious work of activist theatre history served up in an entertaining package of 19th-century backstage drama.
The actors impressively deliver the extreme naturalism of the performance style, but the play leaves us with little hope.
