Talk about inspired programming. Soulpepper artistic director Albert Schultz saw a hit show at the Toronto Fringe Festival and put it on his mainstage season along with Henrik Ibsen and Arthur Miller. The play is such a hit that it’s coming back for a repeat run, May 17 to Jun. 9. Ins Choi’s Kim’s Convenience […]
Green Day is a California punk band. In 2004, the group released the concept album American Idiot, which was transformed into a Broadway musical that opened in 2010. In a concept album, all the songs are linked to a theme or story. American Idiot tells about three disenfranchised friends who want to bolt from their […]
On the adage of better late than never, I caught the musical Seussical at Young People’s Theatre and it’s a charmer. YPT is reviving the production that had a successful run in 2006, and the show can still pack in the crowds. This is a junior version of the Broadway musical and it’s just perfect […]
Cirque du Soleil created Quidam in 1996. It’s been touring as an arena show since 2010. Cirque defines a quidam as a nameless person, a voice trying to express individuality. A little girl called Zoé, played by singer Alessandra Gonzalez, is ignored by her parents, and the circus show is her retreat into her imagination. […]
The Lower Ossington Theatre has become home to shows that feature emerging artists just out of theatre school. In the 1973 Lloyd Webber/Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the enthusiasm of these young people carries the day. Robert Wilkinson is both the director and the musical director and he proves he can use […]
