Theatre Reviews

COC’s The Marriage of Figaro makes for one bloody Valentine

Sandra Laronde’s Miigis: Underwater Panther retells Anishinaabe legend through Indigenous dance, music, and visual arts

At the Arts Club, Forgiveness is transformed into a Second World War play that expands the Canadian narrative – but is missing its memoirist

Fifteen Dogs has lots of woofing and barking – and insights into what it means to be human

The unsinkable Céline Dion fuels an off-Broadway sensation of Titanique proportions

In Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard reckons with his past and depicts the patterns of Jewish history

Broadway is a bloodbath for new musicals right now - but Kimberly Akimbo deserves a long life

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is durably charming

Bad Hats Theatre’s reimagining of Alice in Wonderland dares us to lean into childlike curiosity

Groundbreaking play ‘da Kink in My Hair is back for the holidays, both updated and true to its roots

The National Ballet’s Nutcracker is an enchanting classic

Ross Petty takes final flight in Canada’s most successful holiday pantomime

Fisherman’s Friends sucks you in with a swell of Cornish charm - but the flavour wears off

Red Velvet’s portrait of 19th century Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge brings the thunder to Crow’s Theatre

Little Dickens and Snow White: Holiday shows provide new spins on 19th-century tales (for adults and for kids)

Atwood-adapted MADDADDAM ballet will leave you horrified, confounded and amazed

Review: Our Place explores undocumented lives in Toronto with lively language and layered performances

Dark comedy Post-Democracy plays differently in front of a live audience

Soulpepper’s The Golden Record transmits an interstellar playlist critically

The Citadel’s Christmas musical Almost a Full Moon simmers, but never quite reaches a boil

Choir Boy explores the tension between living up to expectations and honouring your authentic self

The National Ballet Company’s return does not disappoint

Review: Of Three Sisters, one stands out in Howland Company’s uneven contemporary Chekhov adaptation

The Waltz, a terrific romantic comedy that asks whether second-generation Canadians will fall in love at first sight

Tina Fey’s Mean Girls musical updates her teen comedy with social media - and features a Karen you can cheer for. But is it #Fetch?

Studio 180′s Indecent movingly explores the Jewish experience through the history of a controversial Yiddish play

In Yolanda Bonnell’s My Sister’s Rage, grief and laughter go hand in hand

Theatre Passe Muraille’s The Year of the Cello is a live, in-person duet about Hong Kong

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at Crow’s Theatre features sensational acting - and shock-and-awe writing

Un. Deux. Trois. explores why francophone identity in Canada today is a cacophony (like everything else)

The Flying Dutchman intelligently explores power and its relationship to perceived civility

In Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s The First Stone, a family torn apart by war asks if what you have done is all that you are