For their 2024 season, SummerWorks once again crafted a unique and exciting bill of productions divided amongst their four streams of programming. This year, I checked out two of the staged readings which were part of the SummerWorks Exchange stream: Donovan Hayden’s Suitable Climate and Carolyn Fe’s Aye Caesar. SummerWorks describes their Exchange stream as…
Since moving to Toronto, Doors Open has become one of my favourite events of the year. You can explore some of the city's most intriguing buildings FOR FREE from May 25-26. There are several theatre spaces which are included in this year's list of over 150 buildings. If you're looking for some behind-the-scenes info about…
Many poets seek to answer life’s greatest and most profound questions, but when Max Ritvo is facing down death, even he isn’t sure how to put his feelings into words any longer. Based on the book by Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo, Letters from Max, a ritual is the heartbreakingly beautiful story of a professor…
It seems perfectly fitting that the first play Shakespeare BASH’d is producing after the COVID-19 lockdowns is one also written during a plague in London. The Tragedy of King Lear has been several years in the making, and it was most definitely worth the wait. Directed by James Wallis and starring Stratford Festival favourite Scott…
A View from the Box 