Theatre and Performance

Life of Pi actor Divesh Subaskaran is soaking up the ‘epic adventure’ of starring role

As new Belfry Theatre season begins, cancellation of The Runner looms large

Chinese theatre finally gets its centre-stage moment

Life of Pi is a sensory delight with a powerful message: storytelling helps keep us alive

Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmersholm gets a rare and gorgeous production at Crow’s Theatre – but overplays the relevance card

This Indigenous ballet is making its way to ‘the Mecca of dance’ in New York City

Ten fall theatre productions – new creations, revivals, musicals and more – that seem highly promising

Annie Baker’s Infinite Life an uncanny comedy exploring chronic pain at Coal Mine

Old Enough! host Colin Mochrie on trusting kids and what parents can learn from improv

Actor Ian McKellen feared he would die in London stage fall

Stratford Festival: A new, idiosyncratic stage adaptation of The Diviners could spark a Margaret Laurence revival

Stratford Festival’s 2025 season will see candidates facing off for artistic director role

Stratford Festival: Salesman in China is a brilliant new play, fully ready to take the world’s stages by storm

Stratford Festival: Deborah Hay’s Lady Gay Spanker will have you bent over with laughter in London Assurance

The Shaw festival’s Snow in Midsummer will tug at your heartstrings

The real mystery isn’t why the Shaw Festival is producing another Sherlock Holmes play (bums in seats) – but who wrote it

Candida, the All Fours of its time, shows its age in latest Shaw Festival revival

Stratford Festival’s Get that Hope is a short and sweet Jamaican Independence Day’s journey into night

At the Stratford Festival, Edward Albee’s The Goat is an opportunity to ruminate deeper on scandals from Schultz to Munro

Hamlet in High Park offers a fresh perspective on a classic, with a couple of missteps

How improv community Hinprov is amplifying South Asian comics and their mother tongues

Years after co-writing it, Irene Sankoff is taking centre stage in Come From Away

Open-ended Toronto production of The Lion King gets its cast

The Last Timbit, a Tim Hortons stage musical, lands a second life streaming on Crave

Willem Dafoe is named artistic director of Venice Biennale’s theatre department

Becoming Anne: PEI’s Rebekah Brown takes on a role of a lifetime in musical Anne & Gilbert

Ballet BC receives $2-million gift, establishes 10-year Dancer Investment Fund

A Streetcar Named Desire is Soulpepper at its best

Nestruck on Theatre: Why Canadians still love live theatre

At the Shaw Festival, The House That Will Not Stand is a fascinating play in a production divided against itself

The Last Timbit may be a giant ad, but it’s more than deserving of your dough

The Orphan of Chao plots an urgent revenge at the Shaw Festival