It looks as if essentially the most Christmas-y factor to do, after seeing Chris, Mrs. – A New Vacation Musical final week, is to go to Niagara-on-the-Lake and take within the Shaw Competition‘s two vacation season exhibits – A Christmas Carol and Lerner & Loewe’s Brigadoon. What might be extra excellent? The city feels as … [Read more…]
From the primary traces spoken by that getting old rabbi, performed meticulously nicely by Brenda Bazinet (Citadel’s Equus), I breathed an enormous inside sigh of aid. I had persuaded an excellent buddy from New York Metropolis to fly to Toronto to see That Theatre Firm‘s manufacturing of the epic Angels in America, most likely my … [Read more…]
Music floats in, throughout us, from all sides. Stunning stringed devices are performed by secretive musicians standing there amongst us within the aisle on the Harold Pinter Theatre, London. It pulls on us, this music, into the play’s realm inside an on the spot, after which they seem, in swimming pools of white mild, haunting … [Read more…]
These three misplaced souls come ahead, staring out into the viewers within the heat glow of sunshine, looking the unseen horizon with a questioning eye. What are they lacking? However then, out of nowhere, there’s a knock on the door. Not a light-weight informal one, however one which calls for, repeatedly, to be paid consideration … [Read more…]
The vitality within the room is infectious, with cabaret-style tables and chairs lining the runway of a stage at Soulpepper Theatre on the opening evening of the fabulously scrumptious romp, The Information to Being Fabulous. Now I need to admit (as is my common), I didn’t know very a lot strolling into the area, however … [Read more…]
Coming into with a quivering lip and a tense trembling foot, Cliff Cardinal (Soulpepper’s Huff), playwright and performer on this invested VideoCabaret manufacturing of (Everybody I Love Has) A Horrible Destiny (Befall Them) is a charming, and suitably uncomfortable presence. The repetition of the title fully resonates, because it does in his life. He, one … [Read more…]
Ryan Hollyman, Makram Ayache, and Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski in The Hooves Belonged to the Deer – Tarragon Theatre 2023 – Picture by Cylla von Tiedeman. As written within the purple sands of time, this story of affection in opposition to the chances finds weight and energy inside its structured and hypnotic layerings, Made up of fantastical … [Read more…]