While Richard Strauss' Salome is often considered a modern opera, the Canadian Opera Company's current production, directed by Atom Egoyan, reexamines the parameters of that classification,...
This month, National Theatre School of Canada graduate Amy Lee Lavoie premieres her second play, Stopheart, a dark comedy about growing up in the small Northern Ontario town of South Porcupine, at the...
In the small Timmins suburb of South Porcupine, a young man in a supermarket apron shares his boredom and confusion with the audience while Shania Twain's “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?” plays in the background. This is the opening scene of Amy Lee Lavoie's...
Adapted from the 1775 play by Beaumarchais and the 1816 opera by Rossini, Soulpepper’s The Barber of Seville is an update of Theatre Columbus’ 1996 production, a modern spin on the...
The Canadian Opera Company's production of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, now on stage at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,...
You don't have to be a Little Monster to appreciate Ecce Homo Theatre's tribute to the pop phenomenon that is Lady Gaga. Written and directed by Alistair Newton, Of A Monstrous Child: A Gaga Musical...
After directing Stephen Adly Guirgis' In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings and Our Lady Of 121st Street in 2007, Column 13 ensemble member Jonah Allison is appearing in the Canadian premiere of Guirgis' The Little Flower of East Orange, on...
Described as "an actor's nightmare and a playwright's dream," The National Theatre of the World's The Script Tease Project mixes traditional theatre with improv to create a whole new...
The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced the 34th annual Dora Mavor Moore Award nominees today at a press conference at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. This year's awards ceremony will be hosted by The National Theatre of the World'...
The story of Romeo and Juliet has been told countless times, in many different forms, so it's refreshing to see a version of the play that focuses on representing Shakespeare's work in the way it was traditionally presented.
