Theatre and Performance

Bad Roads, a brutally revealing Ukrainian play about war in the digital age, takes the stage at Crows Theatre

Kim’s Convenience moving shop to London, England, with director Esther Jun at the helm

Stratford Festival to see returns of Sara Topham, Vanessa Sears and Deborah Hay in 2024

Lucy Eveleigh joins Luminato as festival producer after departing Fringe

Nestruck on Theatre: Israel-set thriller The Runner returns to the stage as war rages

Sandra Caldwell’s The Guide to Being Fabulous keeps it real and rollicking

Jagged Little Pill is full of beauty, pain and raw emotion, like the album that inspired it

The Wild Rovers, inspired by the Irish Rovers, leaves audience in want of a portal out

Israeli performer Niv Petel portrays an army liaison in one-man show Knock Knock

Alanis Morissette talks activism, feminism and musicals: ‘Anger as a life force is delicious’

How Donald Trump’s win in 2016 pushed Will Arbery to get Heroes of the Fourth Turning on stage

La Bohème offers reminder of opera’s deep connection with messy, real human life

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate forces us to consider the foundations of our existence

Siminovitch Prize shortlist for 2023 includes playwrights d’bi.young anitafrika, Mishka Lavigne

New works, mostly by women, dominate the Canadian dance landscape this fall

Love, justice and freedom resonate through Canadian Opera Company’s Fidelio

Roy Orbison jukebox musical In Dreams will leave you feeling good about feeling bad

Walter Borden’s The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time is a retrospective of the veteran actor’s life, and a reason to smile

Slow-burning Topdog/Underdog plays a complex riff on race and masculinity like a quietly haunting blues

Six reigns supreme with long-awaited Toronto arrival

A new wave of Indigenous opera arrives in Canada

Actor Gray Powell on returning to live theatre with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate

For the Charlotte Ballet, being at Toronto’s Fall for Dance North festival means everything

The Queen in Me shows that art persists in the face of anti-LGBTQ and anti-trans protests

In Mirvish’s new pop-musical Six, Henry VIII’s wives tell their side of history

Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch is drawn to the dark side – and Hollywood

The Master Plan is a frenetic and thought-provoking satire about Big Tech and bureaucracy

Love’s Labour’s Lost at Stratford is something to savour, much like a guilty pleasure dating reality show

When my book Sideways was adapted for the stage, I learned the art of transforming non-fiction into fiction

Fall theatre guide: Exciting world premieres and intriguing twists await this season

Indigenous opera Canoe explores outdoor gear from a First Nations perspective

Stratford Festival returns to Neverland as Wendy and Peter Pan to open 2024 season