Theatre Reviews

Paul Gross is non-stop watchable as King Lear at Stratford Festival

At the Shaw Festival, On the Razzle is Tom Stoppard at his most dazzling, least deep

The Shaw Festival returns to Narnia with Prince Caspian – and spends a lot of time playing catch up on C.S. Lewis

Gypsy grips once again at the Shaw Festival - thanks to a sublime performance by Kate Hennig

In Pamela Mala Sinha’s play New, a new wife upends a new Canadian community

Gloria: A Life, a play about American feminist Gloria Steinem’s work, will spark hope

Maggie: A New Musical is a tuneful tribute to country star Johnny Reid’s Scottish granny, but loses the plot

Paint Me This House of Love at Tarragon Theatre is a couple cans short of a full coat

No Black and white, only blurred lines in Toronto plays Body so Fluorescent and Maanomaa, My Brother

Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza will make Toronto (then Calgary, then Vancouver) go ‘Wowza!’

Vierge at Factory Theatre is a moving exploration of the teenaged Congolese female experience

The Seagull: Director Daniel Brooks brings Chekhov back to Soulpepper, cheeky and cutthroat

Smart and sensual The Hooves Belonged to the Deer hits Tarragon Theatre

First Métis Man of Odesa, an up-to-the-second play now touring across Canada, is a romantic comedy that gets invaded by the war in Ukraine

Second City Toronto’s first-rate new revue Skyline’s the Limit hits the heights of hilarity

Metamorphoses 2023 keeps a cautious distance from contemporary discourse

Canada’s answer to Chris Rock? Or Hannah Gadsby? In The Land Acknowledgement, Cliff Cardinal refuses to be put in a box

Jackie Sibblies Drury’s provocative, Pulitzer Prize-winning Fairview is conceptually rich

The stepsisters steal the show in the National Ballet of Canada’s Cinderella

Why Not Theatre’s Mahabharata shows it deserves an international showcase in stunning world premiere at the Shaw Festival

Cerebral National Ballet triple bill offers a study in contrast

Rich Toronto, poor Toronto: New plays Prodigal and Behind the Moon find dazzling drama in an increasingly unequal city

Rock of Ages is back on stage rocking Toronto - more schlocky than ever, for better or worse

A young Chris Hadfield conquers his nighttime fears in The Darkest Dark stage adaption

Hamilton’s return to Toronto proves well worth the wait

Soulpepper’s English is a thoughtful exploration of what is lost and found when learning a new language

Redbone Coonhound offers plenty of comic relief while skewering racism and sexism

Yerma is a hymn to hope and power that asks questions about traditional (and modern) female roles

Atom Egoyan’s Canadian Opera Company production of Salome is not to be missed

Quietly devastating family drama Things I Know to be True leaves you with an overflowing heart

David Haig’s Pressure evokes the burden of a decision that changed the course of the Second World War

Fall On Your Knees stage adaptation is six powerful hours that will bring you to your feet