Get That Hope At The Stratford Festival – A Review
Get That Hope At The Stratford Festival Toronto’s Little Jamaica is coming apart – quite literally in Get That Hope, Andrea Scott’s earnest if somewhat shambolic play now receiving its world premiere at the Stratford Festival’s Studio Theatre. As nearby gentrification-fueled demolition causes plaster to shower down from the ceiling of their flat, the Whyte […]
The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia? At The Stratford Festival – A Review
The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia? At The Stratford Festival In the spirit of full disclosure let me say at the outset that I am not an Edward Albee fan. I did not expect to like The Goat Or, Who is Sylvia? now playing at the Stratford Festival’s Studio Theatre. Honesty compels me to record […]
Naked Radio At Drayton Entertainment – A Review
Naked Radio At Drayton Entertainment Naked Radio, the genial comedy with music enjoying a first-rate production at the Drayton Festival Theatre chronicles the travails of station WHLO (“Well, Hello!) in Middletown, a fictitious town somewhere in Ontario. Bart Dunwood (Jeff Culbert), a third-generation DJ, welcomes eager-beaver DJ wannabe Mike Young (Kaden Forsberg) to his new […]
The Saviour At Here For Now Theatre – A Review
The Saviour At Here For Now Theatre Here For Now Theatre marks yet another artistic triumph with a searing production of Deirdre Kinahan’s The Saviour, featuring a tour-de-force performance by Rosemary Dunsmore. Before The Saviour begins, we see the elements of Fiona Mongillo’s simple but ingenious set grouped together and covered by a sheet. A […]
The Trials Of Maggie Pollock At The Blyth Festival – A Review
The Trials of Maggie Pollock At The Blyth Festival In it’s fifty years of telling stories of Huron County and other rural Canadian communities, the Blyth Festival has told a fair number of tall (and true) tales, but surely none so outlandish as the one spun in Beverley Cooper’s The Trials of Maggie Pollock. Maggie […]
Whit’s End At The Foster Festival – A Review
Whit’s End At The Foster Festival Norm Foster is back in form with the world premiere of Whit’s End at the Foster Festival’s new digs in the commodious Mandeville Theatre at Ridley College, a prep school for the over-privileged in St. Catherines. As I become more familiar with the oeuvre of Canada’s most prolific (and […]
Resort To Murder At The Blyth Festival – A Review
Resort To Murder At The Blyth Festival Murder mystery plays like Resort To Murder are part of a grand theatrical tradition that dates back at least to Mary Roberts Reinhart’s creaky 1920 murder mystery, The Bat, and that includes such old chestnuts as Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap of 1952, which is still running in London. […]
Shameless!
Shameless! I have now seen Something Rotten three times and can reliably report that the show has done nothing but get better, tighter, and more self-assured. I have also now had the opportunity (twice) to see Steve Ross as Shylock. No offense to his understudy, who filled in admirably the first time I saw the […]
12 Dinners At Here For Now Theatre – A Review
12 Dinners At Here For Now Theatre Longtime Stratford Festival star Steve Ross, now wowing audiences as Albin in La Cage Aux Folles, has reunited with director Jan Alexandra Smith to bring us 12 Dinners at Here For Now Theatre’s intimate tent at the back of the Stratford Perth Museum. When I saw his beautifully […]
Halfway There At Drayton Entertainment – A Review
Halfway There At Drayton Entertainment Drayton Entertainment is doing southwestern Ontario a favour this summer by mounting two of Norm Foster’s best plays, Doris and Ivy in the Home at St Jacobs and now Halfway There at their eponymous playhouse in tiny Drayton, Ontario. Halfway There is Foster at his best. If you are an […]