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Frances Koncan's uproarious comedy, now playing at the 2023 Stratford Festival's Studio Theatre, is sharp, smart and timeless.
This play by novelist Alice Childress follows the love story of Julia, a Black woman, and Herman, a white man, in 1918 South Carolina.
The companies and festivals offer an incredible variety of theatre, including Hitchcock, historical dramas, even a tropical dinner theatre murder mystery.
Aviva Armour-Ostroff's performance is a slowly rising storm in Coal Mine production of this Lucy Prebble play set in a drug trial.
Theatre actors Jennifer Rider-Shaw and Robert Markus are expecting their first child in October. Here's how they made the timing work alongside the Stratford Festival.
In the face of financial concerns, executive director Lucy Eveleigh says 'this past weekend was one of our best selling weekends ever before the festival. The team is amazing. So I feel hope…
Moritsugu says she owes her existence to the Toronto Star: her parents met when her father interviewed her mother
Anaïs Mitchell's celebrated tuner blends together ancient myths, musical influences from roots to show tunes, and bravura stagecraft into a celebration of the capacity of love to pierce b…
The Toronto Star's theatre critics Joshua Chong and Karen Fricker will review dozens of shows throughout the 2023 Toronto Fringe Festival.
Daniel Krolik, Curtis Campbell and Jonathan Wilson's "Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay" was one of the hottest, buzziest shows of the 2022 Toronto Fringe Festival.
The competitive format company is holding a premium show and fundraiser in July along with Bad Dog Theatre, celebrating its own 20th anniversary
The Star's theatre critics give us their picks, from musicals about a champion Canadian horse and a Roman emperor to clowns, standup comedy, history and horror.
Anaïs Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin on how Edmonton was the site of 'some of the hardest and biggest lessons' in developing the show
Tom Rooney is brilliant as a king staring down a constitutional crisis in George Bernard Shaw's 1928 play.
J.M. Synge's 1907 romantic comedy, about a community that exalts a self-proclaimed murderer, feels perverse yet also strangely familiar.
The glittering, glorious costumes for a dynamic adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Richard II' draw inspiration from Studio 54's heyday.
The stage adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's much-loved play provides nostalgia for the grown-ups and connects with younger audiences
Unabashedly physical performance draws parallels to the AIDS crisis but also to issue of representation and power
As Aaron Burr, singing the duet "Dear Theodosia," gained a whole new meaning when he and wife Rebecca E Covington, also in the show, began a family
Director Chris Abraham casts new light on a Shakespeare comedy by reading it through a contemporary lens, Karen Fricker writes.
Stars Trevor White, Trish Lindstrom and Luke Kimball talk about on creating a stage family in the Toronto production of the smash play
This new opera by Chan Ka Nin and Mark Brownell moves across ancient China and contemporary Canada.
'As a disabled person, often our lives are painted as tragic, and I don't feel that way'
The show, which includes poetry and music, can feel aimless, but hidden among the stories are powerful moments.
