Guys And Dolls At The Stratford Festival – A Review
Guys And Dolls At The Stratford Festival After nine years, Donna Feore’s sublime production of Guys and Dolls is back on the Festival Theatre stage to bathe those who saw the 2017 edition in glorious nostalgia and to enchant those encountering it for the first time. Based on the stories of Damon Runyon, with music […]
The Hobbit At The Stratford Festival – A Review
The Hobbit At The Stratford Festival I saw The Hobbit at the Stratford Festival’s Avon Theatre with an audience of 800 students, some of them quite young. Their verdict is in. They loved it! They seemed to be rapt throughout the entire two and a half hours. They cheered some of the special effects, often […]
The Beaver Club At Lighthouse Theatre – A Review
The Beaver Club At Lighthouse Theatre I feel compelled to warn my readers that The Beaver Club by Barb Scheffler, now playing at the Lighthouse Theatre in Port Dover, ON, contains humour that is raunchy, off-colour, smutty, and occasionally downright dirty. I loved every minute of it! Four women of a certain age who live […]
Something Rotten At The Stratford Festival – A Review
Something Rotten At The Stratford Festival Donna Feore’s Something Rotten, the big hit of the 2024 season, has been remounted this season along with another of Feore’s smash hits, Guys and Dolls, to celebrate, one can only assume, Antoni Cimolino’s last season with the Stratford Festival. Cribbing shamelessly from my 2024 review, Something Rotten is […]
Death Of A Salesman At The Stratford Festival – A Review
Death Of A Salesman at the Stratford Festival Starting off with an ear-piercing trumpet solo, Stratford’s Death of a Salesman at the Avon Theatre may be the loudest production on record. Director Dean Gabourie has given us a Salesman full of sound and fury signifying . . . well what exactly? Death of a Salesman […]
I Am An Island At Here For Now Theatre – A Review
I Am An Island At Here For Now Theatre I Am An Island by Julia Lederer, now receiving its world premiere at Here For Now Theatre, is described as a “surrealistic drama (with some very funny bits).” Okay, fair enough. I guess that absolves me of any obligation to try to explain it, because quite […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream At The Stratford Festival – A Review
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Stratford Festival I absolutely loved Chris Abraham’s gender-bending take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Stratford Festival’s Festival Theatre in 2014. Graham Abbey’s sumptuous staging of the play in the Tom Patterson Theatre is utterly different and every bit as good, if not more so. A Midsummer Night’s […]
Finding Neverland At Drayton Entertainment – A Review
Finding Neverland At Drayton Entertainment Finding Neverland, the undistinguished musical tale of the creation of J. M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” has followed a long and winding road which has brought it to the Hamilton Family Theatre in Cambridge, Ontario. When, after several iterations, it arrived on Broadway, Neverland was pooh-poohed by the snooty New York […]
“We’re A Cult” – The Leonor
“We’re A Cult” – The Leonor Stratford has a new “third space!” The Leonor on George is hard to categorize and hard to resist. It’s a bookshop/boutique/tea room/performance space that seeks to become a gathering place for Stratford’s arts community and those drawn to it. The tag line says it all – “Where Creativity and […]
The Surrogate At Here For Now Theatre – A Review
The Surrogate At Here For Now Theatre The Surrogate by Mohsin Zaidi provides a smashing opening for Here For Now’s 2026 season. Under the shrewd, kinetic direction of Christopher Manousos the play grabs the audience by the gut immediately and doesn’t let go. Zaidi has crammed a lot (arguably too much) into The Surrogate’s 95-minute […]