4th Line Theatre’s latest production, Bloom: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fable, is another entertaining evening from this most enterprising of summer festivals. The piece is filled with music and dance as it traces the journey of a small town rock band from nothingness to near greatness to oblivion again. Perhaps the story is a bit […]
The touring production of Lorena Gale’s Angélique (1995) is a class act. Originally presented by Montreal’s Black Theatre Workshop and Tableau D’Hôte, the classic play is performed with both earnestness and imagination. It has taken over two decades for this important play to make it to Toronto, but given the excellence of the production, the […]
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Modern Times Stage Company’s production of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard is near perfection. Modern Times is one of my favourite companies in the city. I particularly love director Soheil Parsa’s take on the classics. He goes right to the heart of the matter, and you come away from a Modern Times […]
One of the delights of The Little Prince: Reimagined is that it is a low-tech production. It is quite amazing what you can create out of paper airplanes, and the clever use of flashlights. This enjoyable children’s theatre features a paper puppet show of immense imagination. Richard Lam translated and adapted the script from the […]
Before getting into the relative merits of the play, the production of Isitwendam (An Understanding) has one of the finest integrations of theatrical values I have witnessed in many a moon. The set (Hans Saefkow), lighting (Melissa Joakim), projections (Andy Moro with Joakim), and sound (Marc Meriläinen) move together with the precision of a military […]
