SCRUTINY | Stratford Festival's 'Private Lives' Is Fun With A Bite
By Paula Citron on July 24, 2019
Director Perloff and her cast have given us a new look at Noël Coward's Private Lives, but one that doesn’t go far enough.
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By Paula Citron on July 24, 2019
Director Perloff and her cast have given us a new look at Noël Coward's Private Lives, but one that doesn’t go far enough.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on July 22, 2019
Kate Hennig’s Queenmaker trilogy is one of the Stratford Festival’s most successful ventures, and Mother’s Daughter is perhaps the best yet.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on June 12, 2019
Luminato Festival's Forget Me Not, a highly imaginative puppet show by Ronnie Burkett, gets sabotaged by a missing microphone.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on June 9, 2019
What happens when you put two revered Siminovitch Prize winners together? The answer is creativity to the max with The Full Light of Day at Luminato.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on May 25, 2019
August: Osage County showcases rich, juicy roles that actors can sink their teeth into, and there is serious mojo acting chops on display.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on May 12, 2019
Written prior to the #MeToo movement, Beautiful Man offers a prophetic message about gender stereotypes through role reversal.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on May 3, 2019
This one-woman play tells the life story of celebrity sex therapist and prolific author, Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, and if actor Linda Kash isn’t nominated for a Dora Award, there is no justice.
(Continue reading)By Anya Wassenberg on April 30, 2019
From Broadway to London’s West End, Come From Away is the Canadian theatre feel-good story of the century. But, the story behind the celebrated musical begins in Canada, and with a show that was the hit of Toronto Fringe a decade ago.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on April 26, 2019
Tarragon Theatre's Old Stock paints an immigrant’s story as a rousing, toe-tapping klezmer musical with a decidedly dark edge.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on April 17, 2019
Sight gags, pratfalls, gimmicks, sound effects, not to mention hovering helicopters, leaking roofs, and fires — all the tools of physical farce drive Bigre at Canadian Stage.
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