My Name Is Lucy Barton on Broadway
My Name Is Lucy Barton on Broadway “LAURA LINNEY IS LUMINOUS” a sign outside Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater announces. If only the same could be said of My Name Is Lucy Barton. This one-woman show, which I am compelled to report, received rapturous reviews from the New York critics, is an adaptation, by Rona […]
A Huron County Christmas Carol at The Blyth Festival
Artistic Director Gil Garratt has transposed the tale to present day Huron County, Ontario, where Ebenezer Scrooge and his deceased partner Jacob Marley have pretty much cornered the market in grain mills. Scrooge wields his monopoly power with villainous fervor.
Mary Poppins at The Grand Theatre
What elevates this production of Mary Poppins to must-see status is the superb cast, most of them veterans of the Stratford and Shaw Festivals.
Aunt Agnes For Christmas at The Foster Festival — A Review
Aunt Agnes for Christmas is as airy and insubstantial as spun cotton candy and every bit as sweet, which makes it ideal for a family outing to the theatre, especially if there’s a tween girl in your clan.
Tootsie on Broadway – A Review
Tootsie on Broadway Tootsie, currently playing at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre, is a musical comedy that’s strong on the comedy and surprisingly weak on the musical side of the equation. Based on the 1982 film starring Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie tells the tale of Michael Dorsey (Santino Fontana), a forty-ish actor who, secure in his superior artistic […]
Bed and Breakfast at The Blyth Festival – A Review
Bed and Breakfast at The Blyth Festival Bed and Breakfast by Mark Crawford, a plea for tolerance wrapped in a deceptively simple (and quite funny) comedy, is packing them in at the Blyth Festival prior to a whirlwind tour of British Columbia. Brett (Crawford himself) and Drew (Paul Dunn), two Torontonians in a committed relationship […]
Victory at The Shaw Festival – A Review
Victory at The Shaw Festival Howard Barker is the bad boy of British theatre. He revels in filth, flatulence, four-letter words, and fornication displayed on stage with all the verisimilitude that the law allows in plays set for the most part in past eras and other countries — for the “distancing effect” he says. “A […]
Cyrano De Bergerac at The Shaw Festival – A Review
Cyrano De Bergerac at The Shaw Festival Let’s start with the good news. The central story of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 Cyrano de Bergerac is alive and well in the capable hands of Tom Rooney as Cyrano, Deborah Hay as Roxanne, Jeff Irving as Christian, and Patrick Galligan as De Guiche. Moreover, playwright Kate Hennig, whose […]
Man and Superman at The Shaw Festival – A Review
Man and Superman at The Shaw Festival The Shaw Festival has entrusted the staging of George Bernard Shaw’s monumental Man and Superman on the expansive Festival Theatre stage to the relative tyro director Kimberley Rampersad, whose only previous directorial credit at Shaw was the one-act O’Flaherty, VC last season. It was a risk and I […]
The Crucible at The Stratford Festival – A Review
The Crucible at The Stratford Festival Powered by three amazing star performances, Arthur Miller’s searing drama, The Crucible, is receiving a towering production in the Stratford Festival’s Avon Theatre under the direction of actor Jonathan Goad. The Crucible is set during the Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the plot hews […]