Robots taking over our jobs, and sometimes our lives, has been the stuff of science fiction as long as the genre has existed. Yet it seems that more and more, those visions of the future are becoming closer to reality. Graham Isador’s TRUCK takes those anxieties about job loss and widespread automation and makes them…
Power. Deception. Lust. A perfect storm of emotions for some after-dinner drinks, wouldn’t you say? Edward Albee’s seminal work Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Brendan Healy, is like watching an acting masterclass in the most chaotic, yet breathtaking, way possible. Legendary performers bring these iconic characters to the Bluma stage in this highly-anticipated…
What do you remember about 1999? I had turned 9 just days before New Year’s Eve, and the panic around Y2K was real. Adam Meisner’s For Both Resting and Breeding imagines a timeline where Y2K, or something like it, happened. For Both Resting and Breeding is an intriguing look at history, memory, and our tendency…
Have you ever seen a scene in a movie where they’re trying to get a dog to decide which owner it likes best? The set the dog in the middle of the room while the two contenders call to it, seeing whose call will make the dog yield. John, the central figure of Mike Bartlett’s…
Taking in a holiday show is such a great way to spend a chilly winter evening. Even better when you could keep coming back night after night as no two shows could possibly be the same! Bad Dog Theatre is presenting their hit show Holiday! An Improvised Musical in association with Factory Theatre this holiday…
Generosity. Noun. Readiness to give more of something, especially money, than is necessary or expected. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, that is. Timon is lauded as being the most generous man that anyone knows, but how far does his generosity get him? And if that generosity merely buys false friendships, is that generosity at…
“We share a specific kind of sadness, you and me.” Ryan’s words reverberate through the theatre for a moment after he’s uttered them, and make ripples throughout the rest of the play. Samuel D. Hunter’s A Case for the Existence of God is a powerful story of friendship, fatherhood, and finding your strength. Directed by…
Welcome sun-seeds! Joy is overjoyed to have you at her “wellness retreat” for the next three months! Such a warm welcome couldn’t come from a cult...could it? Seven strangers think they’re signing up for a life-changing experience, but what they endure is more scary than sunny. Not A Cult: The Musical is an ambitious new…
Some things are just too good to be true, like an abandoned house to live in when you can no longer afford your current apartment, or the water and power magically turning on in said house soon after you’ve moved in...a bit suspicious, isn’t it? Oliver desperately tries to push those suspicions away in Will…
It’s another election year in the United States, and as someone with a great many loved ones living south of the border, I have never felt so helpless for them. Yet there is a glimmer of hope which I’m holding on to, and What the Constitution Means to Me shares that sense of hope. In…
A View from the Box 