580 stories by "Karen Fricker - Theatre Critic"
Murderous puppets, feral chairs and an airborne James Bond feature in this hour-long show at the Toronto Fringe Festival
Kerry Ipema and KK Apple speed through a half-dozen movies in just 60 minutes
Highly contemporary, slightly overlong new musical weaves indelible pop melodies from Swede's chart-topping catalogue with a reimagined take on Shakespeare into a winning result, writes Kare…
"Kamloopa" starts out as almost slapstick comedy but turns serious as Harvey's strong female characters embrace their identities.
The festival has changed its lottery process to involve more BIPOC productions. And it has committed to being inclusive and accessible for both artists and patrons.
Emotionally gripping show that opened Sunday uses dazzling stagecraft and relatable characters to brilliant effect.
In Théâtre français de Toronto web series filmed at the Windsor Arms, Valmont isn't a hero and Merteuil isn't "the mean, mean queen."
In "Too True to Be Good," a microbe blames a patient for its illness while a physician has to choose who gets treated in "The Doctor's Dilemma," both part of the Shaw Festival's 60th season.
The production was on hold because of the pandemic for over two years before rehearsals finally started this past April.
Fatuma Adar, 30, does not have formal musical training. She started creating the music for the show by recording herself singing on her mobile phone.
David Suzuki, and his wife and professional partner Tara Cullis, are the stars of a theatre production called "What You Won't Do For Love," playing at this year's Luminato Festival.
Umeh, the first actor of colour to play the role, rivets attention in monologues that take us deeply into her character's thoughts and feelings.
"2 Pianos 4 Hands," based on the theatre artists' unrealized musical dreams, is back for its sixth major Toronto run June 4.
The show is musically strong and looks great, but large-scale dance numbers feel overextended and there's a spark missing in central relationships.
This much-adapted story has been given a smart and satisfying update by Johnna Wright and Patty Jamieson, writes Karen Fricker.
This year's opening is a welcome return for a workforce that was particularly hard-hit during the pandemic.
The announcement in December 2021 that the musical would close for good in Toronto kick-started a process that will see it return in 2024.
The company has revived its hit 1995 show, "The Cold War " Part One," one of Michael Hollingsworth's epic series of plays lampooning Canadian history.
The play presents "Black women in a way that I hadn't seen them portrayed onstage before," says director Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu.
The play's title refers to the school-to-prison pipeline, the policies and procedures that send a disproportionate number of Black students toward the criminal justice system.
Soheil Parsa is directing Beatriz Pizano in the play by Federico Garcia Lorca, about a domineering matriarch who essentially puts her five adult daughters under house arrest after the death …
"I love this world," says Luke Kimball, who plays Albus Potter. "Cursed Child" "takes a skill set unlike anything I've done," says Fiona Reid, who plays Professor McGonagall and Dolores Umbr…
At long last, the musical "Room" has opened at the Grand Theatre in London, Ont. It will play at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre April 5-May 8.
Drives to Sudbury and a visit to a Nebraskan retirement home, where some of the residents were passionate about the quints, fuelled Alain Doom's "Le Club des éphémères."
Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" play was written in 1897 " long before the internet " but there are resonances with catfishing, say key creatives involved in a production now running a…
