Theatre and Performance

The Death of Walt Disney is both entertaining and experimental dark comedy

Now that I’ve seen all of Shakespeare’s plays, here are my five favourite (and three I can’t stand)

Works completed: On seeing all of William Shakespeare’s plays staged (so far)

Opening Night, Rufus Wainwright’s divisive new musical, closing early in London

More than Mickey Mouse: Diego Matamoros on playing Walt Disney and the state of live theatre

Mad Madge is a rollicking, no-holds-barred ahistorical romp that aims for a blazing world of glory

Christine Quintana’s El Terremoto shakes things up at Tarragon Theatre with its inspired approach to adaptation

George Carlin estate settles with podcasters over fake comedy special purportedly generated by AI

Nestruck on Theatre: Fifteen Dogs returns - transposed to Montreal - and two other big, howling world premieres in Halifax and Toronto

Canadian Stage’s Brendan Healy delivers a powerful and poignant two-part Toronto premiere of The Inheritance

Les Misérables is a timeless tale, beautifully rendered

Song Exploder and the TSO plan to break down classical, one string at a time

How Hamlet nurtured a bromance between ballet icon Guillaume Côté and director Robert Lepage

From Rachel McAdams to Des McAnuff: A Canadian guide to the spring shows on Broadway

Canadian Stage aims to be ‘Toronto’s theatre’ again and attract an audience of 150,000 with 2024-2025 season

The National Ballet delivers tough-to-love winter program

Royce Vavrek strives to tell stories people want to see through opera

They came for Shakespeare and stayed to donate: Stratford Festival reports surplus and higher attendance in 2023

Nestruck on Theatre: Canadian Stage bringing back panto in the style of Ross Petty to Toronto

Broadway’s Dana H., now in Toronto, is a harrowing piece of total theatre that must be experienced live and in person

Going Dutch: A trio of Canadian women notch dance milestones in the Netherlands

Bomb survivors revive Mariupol Theatre troupe in Ukraine

One billion streams later, pop-musical Six is a bona fide hit with teenage girls

3 Fingers Back asks its audience to consider our collective values and judgments

Nestruck on Theatre: Titanique, the hit Titanic spoof stuffed with Céline Dion songs, is coming to Canada

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is resurrected in Jeremy Webb’s Hobbit-filled production

Three Sisters at Soulpepper features three performances you won’t soon forget

Shaw Festival records largest deficit in history amid wider theatre industry woes

Company that operates Just for Laughs owes nearly $22.5-million, court documents show

Nestruck on Theatre: Do friends divided by the Middle East need An Intervention?

54ology playwright Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s lifelong theatrical project is hitting its stride