Dinner With The Duchess At Here For Now Theatre – A Review
Dinner With The Duchess At Here For Now Theatre Playwright Nick Green made quite a splash last season at the Stratford Festival with his powerful and touching Casey and Diana. He has returned to Stratford, not to the Festival stages but to the intimate confines of Here For Now Theatre’s sylvan tent on the western […]
Hedda Gabler At The Stratford Festival – A Review
Hedda Gabler At The Stratford Festival Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler from 1891 is one of the masterpieces of early modern theatre. It was quite shocking back then. In the production now playing at the Stratford Festival’s Tom Patterson Theatre it is more puzzling than anything else. The title role is sought after by most serious […]
The Diviners At The Stratford Festival – A Review
The Diviners At The Stratford Festival The Diviners, a classic of Canadian literature by Margaret Laurence, is being brought to grand and glorious life in a sinuous adaptation by Vern Thiessen and Yvette Nolan on the stage of the Stratford Festival’s Tom Patterson Theatre. The Diviners is a sprawling work that tells the story of […]
Salesman In China At The Stratford Festival – A Review
Salesman In China At The Stratford Festival The Stratford Festival has a major hit on its hands with the transcendent, Broadway-worthy world premiere of Salesman in China, by Leanna Brodie and Jovanni Sy, directed by Sy. Now playing to full houses at the Avon Theatre, it is an imagined recreation of the events surrounding the […]
London Assurance At The Stratford Festival – A Review
London Assurance At The Stratford Festival Antoni Cimolino is perhaps the most gifted interpreter of William Shakespeare in North America. So when I saw that he was directing none of the Bard’s works this season at the Stratford Festival, I consoled myself with the knowledge that at least he would be directing London Assurance, the […]
Lakefront At Lighthouse Festival Theatre – A Review
Lakefront At The Lighthouse Theatre With Lakefront, now enjoying it’s world premiere at Port Dover’s Lighthouse Festival Theatre, the prolific Norm Foster is proving that oldsters can be just as romantic – and funny – as the younger couples he has been writing about for decades. “Write what you know” is timeless advice for writers, […]
With Love And A Major Organ At Here For Now Theatre – A Review
With Love And A Major Organ At Here For Now Theatre Have you ever given your heart to someone? Most of us have been in love at least once in our lives, but no one gives their heart quite like the heroine of With Love and a Major Organ by Julia Lederer, the surreal, witty, […]
Snow In Midsummer At The Shaw Festival – A Review
Snow In Midsummer At The Shaw Festival The programme for Snow In Midsummer by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, now showing at the Shaw Festival’s Studio Theatre, tells me that the play is “based on the classical Chinese drama The Injustice to Dou E that Moved Heaven and Earth by Guan Hanqing.” The distinguished scholar and critic […]
Sherlock Holmes And The Mystery Of The Human Heart At The Shaw Festival – A Review
Sherlock Holmes And The Mystery Of The Human Heart At The Shaw Festival It is with heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these last words in which I shall ever record the singularly entertaining piffle that is Sherlock Holmes And The Mystery Of The Human Heart by Reginald Candy, now playing […]
Candida At The Shaw Festival – A Review
Candida At The Shaw Festival The works of George Bernard Shaw seem to be almost an afterthought these days at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, which was founded precisely to honor his considerable output. Severn Thompson’s smashing production of Candida is a bracing reminder that the Festival ignores the master at its peril. The Candida […]