Theatre Reviews

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

Disney’s Aladdin on stage? Aladdon’t - unless you missed the pantomime this year

Poet Luke Reece reveals the vulnerabilities too many men keep locked away

Universal Child Care at Canadian Stage is a cutting critique of child care in wealthy countries

Diane Flacks’ Guilt: A Love Story is a confessional solo show about divorce that could easily go viral

Earworm at Crow’s Theatre is a must-see amid foreign interference inquiry

Soulpepper’s De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail is full of fascinating contradictions

Dion: A Rock Opera has promise, but lacks the ecstasy and excess that Dionysus and rock ‘n’ roll demand

With remount of Uncle Vanya at CAA Theatre, actors have honed performances to perfection

Pity and grace weigh heavy in Canadian Opera Company’s Don Giovanni

COC’s Cunning Little Vixen asks its audience see the beauty of the forest over the trees

The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes is a scary (and amusing) view of the AI future

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 a chance to glimpse two shooting stars in its Canadian premiere at Crow’s Theatre

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is an ingenious and fun reworking of Jane Austen’s ubiquitous novel

The cheerful exuberance of 42nd Street is sure to sweep you away

Chris, Mrs, a cozy new Christmas musical, has all the hallmarks of a modest holiday hit in world premiere at Winter Garden Theatre

Kidd Pivot’s Assembly Hall is a convocation of half-formed ideas

Angels in America: Tony Kushner’s two-part classic is as necessary as ever, even in That Theatre Company’s imperfect Toronto production

Onegin’s crisp choreography redeems its stale storyline

To Kill a Mockingbird at Mirvish makes a rare touring stop in Toronto for a big-budget Broadway play

Prophecy Fog at Coal Mine Theatre feels essential at this moment in time

Part of the appeal of The Lehman Trilogy is the absence of a large, obvious statement

At Tarragon Theatre, Morris Panych’s Withrow Park is an unthreatening comedy of menace

New Second City revue Chaos Menu: Disorder Up! makes light of life’s everyday absurdities

National Ballet of Canada’s pairing of Passion, Emma Bovary works, though the latter is easier to love

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

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

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

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