Theatre and Performance

The Apple Cart rocks at the Shaw Festival with Tom Rooney as a magnetic King Magnus

The Hong Kong Ballet embraces its local identity, amidst a city in flux

Many Broadway shows see box office jumps after Tonys exposure

Ronnie Marmo is not a comedian, he’s Lenny Bruce

Stratford Festival production of Richard II is bold and brash, but not-quite-fully realized

Nestruck on Theatre: Chilina Kennedy’s new musical gets a star-studded recording. Plus: The politics of dimming marquees

Stratford Festival’s brief stage adaptation A Wrinkle in Time will leave kids wanting more - which is not a complaint

‘Exhilarating’ performance of Romeo and Juliet at the National Ballet of Canada

Stratford Festival: Much Ado About Nothing is really something else with a little Shields added to the Shakespeare

No Save Points merges memoir with video game technology

A new play in Winnipeg reveals the secrets of Shakespeare’s ‘dark lady’. Plus: what’s opening on stages across the country this week

Treemonisha achieves sonic unity by bridging the old and the new

Apartheid-era play Sizwe Banzi Is Dead asks how we preserve our true selves

Le projet Riopelle: Hannah Gadsby could learn a thing or two from Robert Lepage

All The Globe’s reviews from the 2023 Stratford Festival and Shaw Festival

Grand Magic: Third time’s the charm for Antoni Cimolino and Eduardo De Filippo at the Stratford Festival

Alysa Pires becomes first Canadian woman to create work for New York City Ballet

Nestruck on Theatre: A tale of two Fringes, three to see at Luminato, and a singular festival in Kingston

Mirvish announces Canadian cast of Six, the hit musical about Henry VIII’s wives

Pomegranate at the Canadian Opera Company Theatre reminds us how history can repeat itself

Kelly v. Kelly is a swift-moving musical triumph

At 65, Robert Lepage continues to conjure stage magic

Rock musical Rent resurrected in a loving production to convert the skeptics at Stratford Festival

Stratford Festival’s AIDS drama Casey and Diana is a moving celebration of women who choose compassion over fear

Serviceable Spamalot a sign of a Stratford Festival failing in quest to find a higher musical-theatre purpose

Paul Gross is non-stop watchable as King Lear at Stratford Festival

At the Shaw Festival, On the Razzle is Tom Stoppard at his most dazzling, least deep

The Stratford Festival ritual of opening week is finally back

Crow’s Theatre’s plays Red Velvet and Uncle Vanya lead the way in nominations for Toronto’s Dora Mavor Moore Awards

The Shaw Festival returns to Narnia with Prince Caspian – and spends a lot of time playing catch up on C.S. Lewis

Gypsy grips once again at the Shaw Festival - thanks to a sublime performance by Kate Hennig

The king returns: After two decades away, Paul Gross is back in Stratford to play Lear