Blake served as a youth advocate this summer on the Stratford Festival's "R+J," an adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet." Her role included helping 14-year-old Eponine Lee as Juliet engage with m…
Both festivals are staging productions this summer in which the N-word is used. To some Black theatre artists, removing the word isn't a solution: 'If you decide to cut that term, you decide…
'They were in a continent filled with Black people and all they did was moon at the princess,' the playwright says about the Season 1 episode. In 'Serving Elizabeth,' she revisits the 1952 r…
The theatre piece presents the climate emergency as a generational inheritance that baby boomers and Gen X-ers have passed on to today's youth, and channels the fury of Greta Thunberg and ot…
While telling a story about playwright Edward Albee, actor Martha Henry holds a photo up to the screen: A photo of Albee, looking intensely at the camera and stroking a white cat.
The word "immersive" gets thrown around a lot these days, and in this case the description is merited: All of the elements of this production combine to place you at the centre of its distur…
'Although there wasn't a live actor in the room,' theatregoers 'were absolutely convinced that there was,' says British actor Stevenson, who even pulled her own feet out of the way so as not…
From Shakespeare in the Ruff (stray wild animals included) to Guild Festival Theatre, from a remount of 'Alphonse' to Here for Now Theatre in Stratford, from 'The Motorcycle Monologues' to a…
'It was written in 1986 … all of the characters were affected by residential school,' says actor Tracey Nepinak, part of the all-Indigenous cast of the Stratford Festival production.
Theatre under the canopies allows producers to make full use of the audience space in 'joyful, satisfying heartbreaking' return
Both theatres are premiering their first plays of the season this week, and it's been a monumental and emotional journey to get here.
From a play that borrows from South Korean variety, game and talk shows to explore race and bullying, to a show about sex work that would have been illegal in the playwright's native Iran, a…
The circus acts include hoop diving, Cyr wheel, aerial silks, juggling and Chinese pole: acrobats scrambling up, spinning around and doing death dives off of vertical poles. Most thrillingly…
Here's what the Shaw Festival, the Stratford Festival, Mirvish Productions and other theatre companies in Toronto have planned as they welcome patrons back to live performances " with plenty…
Montreal's 7 Fingers brings 'Together Apart, Summer Cirque' to the Markham Fairgrounds. Its artists have been missing performing 'death-defying acts,' says 7 Fingers co-artistic director Isa…
But given the immersive show's otherwise impressive attention to detail, it's disappointing that the English-language soundtrack still features the voices of actors from the London, U.K., pr…
Toronto's Musical Stage Company presents 'BLACKOUT' from July 23 to Aug. 15 " fittingly, under the stars at the High Park Amphitheatre.
Close to 100 arts organizations ask the province to amend its Roadmap to Reopen or risk more damage to the already devastated performing arts industry.
Toronto actors Blythe Haynes and Ryan G. Hinds have been rehearsing a week in advance. English actors Mina Anwar and Darren Jeffries will come into the May 6 performance pretty much cold. 'T…
With the latest COVID-19 stay-at-home order in Ontario preventing theatre companies from even rehearsing or recording content, organizations are cautiously planning late spring or summer sho…
Richard B. Harrison made a living touring North America reading Shakespeare and poetry until 'The Green Pastures' came along. Actor Walter Borden and director Jeff Culbert want to make sure …
Some of the world's most successful musicals are hitting Australian stages thanks to that country's COVID-19 measures. In Toronto, where theatres are still closed, arts organizations are get…
Featuring plays and related content from countries like Nigeria and Argentina " and from the Cree, Saulteaux and Métis nations in Canada " Soulpepper hopes to broaden artistic horizons. 'Th…
In a project sponsored by York and Brock universities, 21 students shared their responses to the plays in '21 Black Futures.' In songs, poems, American Sign Language videos and more, they ex…
While Tarragon Theatre is taking its world premiere of 'Orestes' entirely online and 'february: a love story' has become a film, the Rhubarb Festival is going analogue " the 2021 edition of …