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 […]
Rhinoceros At Yale Rep – A Review
Rhinoceros At The Yale Rep The Yale Rep is mounting a spirited revival of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist masterpiece Rhinoceros in a new adaptation by Frank Galati (from a translation by Derek Prouse) under the direction of Liz Diamond. Ionesco’s parable depicts a small French town whose residents are turning, one by one, into rampaging rhinoceroses. […]
English At Long Wharf Theatre – A Review
English At Long Wharf Theatre English, the first play by Sanaz Toosi, comes to New Haven with impeccable credentials – a Pulitzer Prize in 2023 following its Off-Broadway debut in 2022 and then a Broadway remount in 2025. Even though English is now getting a solid production at Long Wharf’s latest borrowed space at Southern […]
A Christmas Carol At KCRep – A Review
A Christmas Carol at KCRep Having just seen two modern Canadian adaptations of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Blyth Festival and the Foster Festival, I found it fascinating to take in a good, old-fashioned production of the perennial holiday favourite in Kansas City, Missouri. The KCRep is one of a number of American regional […]
Ruby And The Reindeer At Here For Now Theatre – A Review
Ruby And The Reindeer At Here For Now Theatre Ruby and the Reindeer by Mark Crawford, Here For Now Theatre’s holiday gift to Stratford, is flat out terrific. Heartfelt, warm, effortlessly charming, and with a sweetly powerful feminist message, it is destined to become a Christmas classic. Ruby and the Reindeer is a memory play […]