Theatre Review – Coal Mine Theatre/Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Photo by Dahlia Katz Coal Mine Theatre mounts an international roster of plays, usually from the United States and Britain. As a result, we get to see the best of the best from abroad, and American...
Music Theatre Review – TO Live/Taj Express written by Toby Gough, music by Salim and Sulaiman Merchant, choreographed by Vaibhavi Merchant, directed by Shruti Merchant
As soon as Taj Express was over, I wanted to sit through it all again. That’s how much fun I had at this Bollywood dance and music show direct from India. Who cares if the storyline is thin? The...
Theatre Review – Tarragon Theatre/Buffoon by Anosh Irani
Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann Anand Rajaram gives one of the most remarkable performances of the season in Anosh Irani’s one-man play Buffoon. Vancouver-based Irani is an esteemed novelist-playwright,...
Theatre Review – Theatre Gargantua/The Wager by Michael Gordon Spence, directed by Jacquie P.A. Thomas
Photo by Michael Cooper I have often felt that Theatre Gargantua is the most under-appreciated company in Toronto. All their multi-disciplinary original plays are based on subjects ripped from today’s...
Theatre Review – Tarragon Theatre/Copy That by Jason Sherman
Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann There’s an old adage that says there are only twelve possible plotlines, and Shakespeare wrote them all. The same could be true of network television. The moment a trend...Recent Theatre Reviews
Theatre Review – Coal Mine Theatre/Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Esteemed American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has come up short with a play that doesn’t hang together, and which is not helped by uneven acting. Continue reading
Music Theatre Review – TO Live/Taj Express written by Toby Gough, music by Salim and Sulaiman Merchant, choreographed by Vaibhavi Merchant, directed by Shruti Merchant
Taj Express is an homage to Bollywood movies and a non-stop, dazzling, eye-popping song and dance extravaganza direct from India. Continue reading
Theatre Review – Tarragon Theatre/Buffoon by Anosh Irani
A remarkable performance by Anand Rajaram and a compelling script by Anoush Irani make for a must see theatrical experience. Continue reading
Theatre Review – Theatre Gargantua/The Wager by Michael Gordon Spence, directed by Jacquie P.A. Thomas
An incisive and compelling theatrical exploration into the rise of misinformation. Continue reading
Theatre Review – Tarragon Theatre/Copy That by Jason Sherman
An amusing satire on network television featuring the writers’ room. Continue reading
Theatre Review – Factory Theatre/Trout Stanley by Claudia Dey.
Regarded as a Canadian classic, Claudia Dey’s Trout Stanley is a wild ride into the improbable world of the Duchame sisters. Continue reading
Theatre Review – Obsidian Theatre/Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu
A searing, tense-filled look at American race relations and the hopeless lives of young Black men. Continue reading
Theatre Review – Théâtre français de Toronto/La Cantatrice chauve (The Bald Soprano) by Eugène Ionesco
A brilliant production that breathes fresh life into a French classic. Continue reading
Theatre Review – Soulpepper/Almighty Voice and His Wife by Daniel David Moses
An important Canadian classic that looks at the impact of White colonization from an Indigenous point of view. Both beautiful and satiric at the same time. Continue reading
Theatre Review – Crow’s Theatre & Eclipse Theatre Company/ Ghost Quartet, music, lyrics and text by Dave Malloy
A surreal song cycle that deals with love and death, and is not to be missed as a theatrical experience. Continue reading