2024’s The Caged Bird Sings was certainly one of the most unforgettable theatrical experiences I’ve witnessed thus far. This summer, Tarragon Theatre along with Modern Times and Theatre ARTaud are bringing this beautiful show indoors to the Tarragon Extraspace. I got to ask Waleed Ansari (set designer) & Rafeh Mahmud (creator/director) some questions about this…
“My father lost me to the Beast at cards.” Hailey Gillis’ opening line of Tiger Bride lets us know that this is not your average fairy tale. Based on Angela Carter’s “The Tiger’s Bride”, a gothic retelling of the classic “Beauty and the Beast” story, Tiger Bride is a dark, music-filled fantasy that’ll leave you…
Before his death in 2025, Richard Foreman made his notebooks available for use online. From these notebooks, Ilana Khanin’s You Must Change Your Life was born. Featuring Thea Mea Hesler and Annie Hoeg, You Must Change You Life is sure to be a unique theatrical experience. I asked Thea and Annie about the show, working…
Toronto Louise: The Last Dance – Saint Stella Louise: The Last Dance fuses live performance, projection, archival media, and dance to ask a question still relevant today; whose stories get told, and whose get buried? Drawing on archival research, period press, and rare documentary footage of Louise filmed weeks before her death, Stella inhabits Louise’s…
“This is what happened” Kenneth is 38, works in a book shop, lives alone, loves a good mai tai from Wally’s and hangs out there every happy hour with his best friend Bert. But when Kenneth’s world is turned upside down, everything he knows about life in Cranberry, New York comes into question. Eboni Booth’s…
“Af dem hob ikh eyn entfer — Got is a foter un Heylik is zayn Toyre!” From the opening lines of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish I felt the shift: changes both large and small which were taking a story I’ve known for most of my life and giving it new and deeper meaning.…
Spindle Collective is back to bring chills to your spine with their latest work, Síofra. Natalia Bushnik and Kathleen Welch are the creative minds behind SAMCA, Síofra, and the forthcoming SpilleHOLLE. I get to ask them about these shows, about their process, and what audiences can expect from Síofra. Natalia Bushnik and Kathleen Welch 1.…
Vaughan’s Theatre Ya Knowww is heading to downtown Toronto for their inaugural Pan-Asian Theatre Festival. Artistic Director Ethan Persyko took some time to answer my questions about the festival, why a festival like this is so important, and what audiences can expect from the festival’s programming. Ethan Persyko 1. Can you please introduce yourself to…
Chisato Minamimura’s Mark of a Woman is the final presentation of Theatre Passe Muraille’s #BeyondTO series! A truly remarkable piece blending dance and performance, Mark of a Woman is sure to be an unforgettable experience. I asked Chisato about the play, some of the accessibility options available, and her inspiration for the show! Chisato MinamimuraPhoto…
“What is Hell?” Take Wilde, famously charged with indecency in a time where it was still illegal to be queer who said: “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” Or take Huxley, who was so much more than the dystopian fiction we’re forced to read in school, who said:…
A View from the Box 