Here we are, the start of another theatre season! With new seasons beginning at all of our favourite theatres, and productions being put on from emerging companies, it’s going to be a BUSY month. I’m really looking forward to getting back to some of my favourite spaces and seeing what the 24/25 season has in…
Dana Higginbotham was accustomed to seeing people at their worst; as a chaplain, she was often with people in their final moments and saw others through the lowest points of their lives. But when a former patient takes advantage of Dana’s kindness in an unthinkable way, Dana’s whole life gets turned upside down. Crow’s Theatre…
Homa believes that she has finally found safety in her new home of Toronto, Canada, but when she comes face to face with a dark figure from her past, everything she knows is suddenly in question. Writer and director Mohammad Yaghoubi’s Earworm talks about all this and so much more in its world premiere in…
The CAA Theatre has been transformed into a gloomy, storm-filled Russian estate for Mirvish Productions’ Uncle Vanya. One of Chekhov’s most famous works has been brilliantly adapted by Liisa Repo-Martell, and paired with Chris Abraham’s insightful direction, it’s a production for the ages. Initially premiering at Crow’s Theatre in 2022, and I could not be…
Indulge in the splendour of upper-class Russian society with Crow’s Theatre and The Musical Stage Company’s Canadian Premiere of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. A truly captivating musical based on a portion of “War and Peace,” the Great Comet of 1812 immerses the audience in the production and makes every moment more…
Every day we make choices which lead us down one of any number of paths. But when war forces you out of your home, forces you to choose sides, forces you into unimaginable situations, what then? Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s stunning play Bad Roads examines that question and so much more. Brilliantly directed by Andrew Kushnir and…
Back at the post for another race is Gareth Williams and Anna Chatterton’s award-winning opera Rocking Horse Winner. Directed by Michael Hidetoshi Mori, with musical direction by Kamna Gupta, Rocking Horse Winner brings the short story by D.H. Lawrence to life. Talented vocalists, stunning design, and a mesmerizing score puts Rocking Horse Winner several lengths…
A peaceful celebration in rural Wyoming turns into heated discussions and unearthing secrets in Will Arberty’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning. Philip Akin directs this poignant production in a way that makes it a vibrant experience. Heroes of the Fourth Turning is certainly turning over and over in my head; it left me with plenty…
The boardroom of the Waterfront Toronto office along the shoreline of Lake Ontario certainly saw its fair share of action and drama when Google subsidiary Sidewalk Labs came to town in 2017. It’s the perfect setting for Michael Healey’s play The Master Plan, based on the Book “Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy” written by…
I am about to embark on another theatre-filled weekend in Stratford with my partner and family, an annual tradition which now has spanned two decades. It’s got me thinking about the blatant disregard for the Festival Theatre playing space which we witnessed the last time we were there in July (as well as many times…
A View from the Box 