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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rogers v Rogers At Crow’s Theatre – A Review
Rogers v Rogers At Crow’s Theatre After seeing Michael Healey’s brilliant (and brilliantly funny) The Master Plan at Crow’s Theatre not even the dreaded Canadian winter could keep me from coming to Toronto to see his Rogers v Rogers. The fact that Tom Rooney was playing all fifteen characters was icing on the cake. Rogers […]
A Huron County Christmas At The Blyth Festival – A Review
A Huron County Christmas Carol At The Blyth Festival This year’s production of A Huron County Christmas Carol is the third iteration of Blyth’s inspired adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. I enjoyed its previous outings in 2019 and 2023 and it just seems to get better every time it’s revived. The adaptation by Blyth […]
A Niagara Christmas Carol At The Foster Festival – A Review
A Niagara Christmas Carol At The Foster Festival It’s become quite the thing for regional theatre companies to create bespoke variations of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” The Foster Festival’s entry in the growing list, A Niagara Christmas Carol moves the action to the Niagara region during the construction of the Welland Canal in 1840, […]
Goblin:Oedipus At The Stratford Festival – A Review
Goblin:Oedipus At The Stratford Festival There once was a king named Oedipus Rex. You may have heard about his odd complex. His name appears in Freud’s index ’Cause he looooved his mother. The late Tom […]