Theatre Reviews

At the Shaw Festival, a case for Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms as a Halloween classic

The Home Project is thoughtful storytelling weaving three stories with a longing for home

Is My Microphone On? at Canadian Stage unnervingly explores adolescence and the climate emergency

At the Stratford Festival, Serving Elizabeth is more than just a callout of The Crown

Trouble in Mind arrives in Canada disgracefully late in a perfectly pitched production at the Shaw Festival

Stratford Festival: Three Tall Women is one nasty evening at the theatre you won’t (be able to) forget

Talk is Free Theatre’s Into the Woods: In Concert will satisfy Ontario audiences’ hunger for a real musical

Forswear it, sight! You’ve never seen (or not seen) Shakespeare like the Stratford Festival’s R + J before

Stratford Festival’s I Am William is theatre for young people that isn’t afraid of delivering a direct message

The Blyth Festival has a hit with its new outdoor Harvest Stage, a pandemic pivot set to be permanent

It’s elementary why Sherlock Holmes and the Raven’s Curse is relaunching indoor theatre at the Shaw Festival

Chilina Kennedy instead of Shakespeare in the park? Musical Stage Company’s Blackout is a preview of enticing possibilities

Blindness: It’s a real pleasure to see you again, Princess of Wales Theatre

The Rez Sisters gets a miraculous production at the Stratford Festival

Praise be to The Devil’s Disciple at the Shaw Festival for bringing back theatre without compromise

Charley’s Aunt at the Shaw Festival: Sometimes a man in a dress smoking a cigar is just that

Virginia Woolf pet story Flush best suited for a dog day afternoon at the Shaw Festival

A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a twist wakens Shakespeare from slumber at the Stratford Festival

Stratford Festival cast triumphs over COVID-19 pandemic, severe thunderstorm to mark first opening since 2019

Emil Sher takes The Boy in the Moon from page to stage

Do you miss Succession? Watch Hannah Moscovitch’s Post-Democracy for another sordid succession saga

Bad Hats, with the help of Soulpepper, follow bigger theatre companies down the Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole

Speculation: Violinist Leslie Ting explores John Cage and Beethoven - and her own fight against, embrace of her mother’s silence

Out of Order: A new filmed circus show from the 7 Fingers is a must-see work of pandemic art

Popular singer Sylvia Murphy found a national audience on 1950s TV

Voicebox: Opera in Concert steps into online performance with brilliant The Human Voice double bill

Tarragon Theatre’s online Orestes may drive you to the edge of madness with information overload

The COVID-era East Van Panto production is a terrific best-of with medleys and parodies

National Ballet’s streaming Nutcracker is an enjoyable stand-in for its annual holiday performance

Crystal Pite taps into current questions of connection, understanding and culpability in Flight Pattern

Pathetic Fallacy is a weird weather report, an art history lecture, a green-screen farce – and one of the best livestreams of the year

A Craigslist Cantata, a musical based on the internet, makes the move back online ingeniously at The Cultch