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Mirvish lineup includes six main season shows, three off-Mirvish shows and five bonus stagings and marks the long-awaited resumption of Toronto's theatre scene after a 16-month break due to …
The festival takes place across Toronto and features programming for children aged 0-6, many of them seeing the curtain open for the first time.
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.
World premiere by Tapestry Opera is taking place at OCAD U.
Never in the history of Canadian theatre has there been a single company whose members would go on to find such success.
Director Jani Lauzon and actor Craig Lauzon both feel a sentimental connection to Loring's Governor General's Award-winning text
This year's opening is a welcome return for a workforce that was particularly hard-hit during the pandemic.
Joey Arrigo's approach to the Evil Queen was a collaborative one with TranscenDance artistic director Julia Cratchley.
Louis D'Ailleboust, one of the dead, was the great-grandfather of dance artist Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo. Her new work, "Sky Dancers", arrives at Harbourfront Centre this week.
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 opportunities are great, but these institutions need to offer understanding and time," says set designer Moro. His life partner Beagan is directing the Kenneth T. Williams play at Tarra…
The works in the 2022-23 season "grapple in different ways with discussions about race, climate and political divisiveness that are dominating global conversations right now."
Hope Muir's first full season as artistic director also includes works by Alonzo King and David Dawson, and the return of "The Nutcracker," "Cinderella," "Frame by Frame" and "Romeo and Juli…
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.
"Let's say it's an adult fairy tale," says the dancer and choreographer of his multimedia work, which draws inspiration from cryptozoology and "The Little Mermaid."
The play presents "Black women in a way that I hadn't seen them portrayed onstage before," says director Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu.
Canadian poets take centre stage in David Yee's play about Milton Acorn and Al Purdy at Factory Theatre and "The Shape of Home: Songs in Search of Al Purdy" from the Festival Players of Prin…
"The challenge is not to make this character a villain," says Piazzola, who will mark his first 200 performances with the Canadian Opera Company May 3.
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.
Though lacking the playful humour of the novel and the propulsive drive of the Oscar-winning movie, the play with music still resonates.
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 …
The National Ballet of Canada needs an experienced man to take his place. Artistic director Hope Muir says she has a plan.