Theatre Reviews

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical offers explosive energy and an epic leading performance

Aportia Chryptych tells an old Canadian story in a new way

The National Ballet’s corps is radiant in Balanchine’s Jewels

With two shows, the Luminato Toronto Festival solves the housing crisis – and complicates it

Stratford Festival’s restrained new production of Hedda Gabler is too perfunctory and not punk enough

Second City comedy revue All Messed Up & Nowhere To Go finds the funny in awkward moments

Romeo and Juliet gets a fast-paced production at the Stratford Festival

La Cage aux Folles is no drag in uplifting production at Stratford Festival

A divinely inspired Cymbeline showcases Shakespeare’s ‘everything bagel’ at the Stratford Festival

Something Rotten! isn’t deep, but it’s another deliriously fun show from Stratford Festival queen Donna Feore

Come Home – The Legend of Daddy Hall is a thrilling, true story of survival

A Twelfth Night with a terrific Viola opens Stratford Festival 2024 season

The Wrong Bashir paints a loving, humorous picture of the Ismaili community

My Fair Lady’s fascinating, feisty central relationship makes it a rewarding revisit

Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner gets a combustible Canadian premiere

Cirque du Soleil’s Echo - in Toronto, then Gatineau and Vancouver - is a high point for bigtop circus design

Hedda Gabler is a compelling snapshot of the great anti-heroine of modern theatre

Dog Man: The Musical is silly and irreverent, and completely earnest

In Seven Days, a new family drama by Jordi Mand, explores the impact of MAiD through a Jewish lens

Canadian premiere of Medea delivered with guts and gusto

The Shaw Festival makes an open-and-shut case for Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution

Canadian Opera Company’s Don Pasquale is as fresh and funny as it is long overdue

Tom Wilson’s Beautiful Scars shines a light on identity, deceptions, decolonization and an unsettled psyche

Four Minutes, Twelve Seconds, starring Megan Follows, is a blow to the Studio 180 brand

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

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

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

The National Ballet delivers tough-to-love winter program

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

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

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