Theatre Reviews

The Lion King roars back to Toronto in a spectacular return that captures the magic of the ‘circle of life’

The future is female judging by the National Ballet’s fall mixed program

A Case for the Existence of God is an earth-bound prayer for a better world

Amy Rutherford brings Heidi Schreck’s vision to life in What the Constitution Means to Me

Playing Shylock is a ghost story that is impossible to ignore

Flin Flon Cowboy is a story we should hear, but its preoccupation with feet limits its potential

Interior Design is sharply funny and deceptively deep

My Name is Lucy Barton is a seductive, heart-squeeze of a show

Canadian Opera Company’s first-ever staging of Nabucco features stunning singing, despite some stumbles

Ronnie Burkett’s Wonderful Joe is a dark and moving puppet extravaganza

Goblin:Macbeth is not quite fully goblin or Macbeth, but it is fully fun

The Thanksgiving Play, a milestone for Native American theatre, misses the mark in Canadian premiere

Come From Away returns triumphant to Toronto’s Royal Alexandra – a story of resilience, now a symbol of resilience

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s season opener Roberto Zucco provokes and disturbs

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

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

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

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

A Streetcar Named Desire is Soulpepper at its best

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

A sweet, gentle, mindful take on The Secret Garden at the Shaw Festival

Three cheers aren’t enough for One Man, Two Guvnors, which deserves to be a Shaw Festival smash