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The Crucible

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible still has the power to spook theatregoers, almost 60 years after it premiered on Broadway in 1953. Set in Salem, Massachusetts during the famous witch trials, the...

SummerWorks 2012: Haunted

The characters in Daniel Karasik’s latest play see life from different perspectives: Abby (played to perfection by Rosemary Dunsmore) has recently lost her husband and desperately wants to feel something again; she starts attending synagogue and becomes involved with the young rabbi David (...

SummerWorks 2012: Marine Life

Some relationships are like natural disasters: unwavering and destructive. Playwright Rosa Laborde makes the connection between codependent love and environmental devastation in Marine Life, a darkly funny three-hander now playing at the...

SummerWorks 2012: Derailed—The Amy Project

Although everyone on a busy subway train is headed in the same direction, they are isolated by their own thoughts. The narratives to emerge from these underground commuters are the focus of Derailed, now playing as part of this year’s SummerWorks Performance Festival....

SummerWorks 2012: I, Animal

A giant silver tree shoots out of the stage, circled by three animal-like spirits: a queer black nurse with a short fuse and a mischievous dog (Antonio Cayonne); a pot-smoking teenage “cat killer” (Stewart Legere), and a rich divorcee with a thing for horses and younger men (Kathryn MacLellan)....

SummerWorks 2012: Barrel Crank

Before Nik Wallenda walked the high-wire, there was Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel (and on her 63rd birthday to boot!). Erin Shield’s Barrel Crank, now playing at the 2012 SummerWorks Performance Festival, tells the...

SummerWorks 2012: Dumbo Squid

A filthy old couch and a flickering overhead light set the stage upon which violent, dark and disturbing themes take place. Now playing as part of this year’s SummerWorks Performance Festival, Dumbo Squid is a bold, gritty drama centered around a passionate, yet vicious...

This Is War

Commissioned by the Banff Centre Theatre Arts Department to celebrate their 75th birthday, Hannah Moscovitch's This Is War, a new play about Canada's involvement in the war in Afghanistan, premiered at...

Next Stage Theatre Festival 2012: Memorial

Death may be everyone's biggest fear, but most people have imagined, at some point, what their funeral will look like. What music will be played? Who will attend, and what will they say about the deceased? In Next Step Productions'...

After a hit run at the 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival, Julia Lederer's With Love and a Major Organ, a funny and thoughtful story about a woman who gives her heart (literally)...

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