With additional reporting by Iris Leung Shary Boyle, who currently graces the cover of Now Magazine, is a Toronto artist worth watching. Everything Under The Moon, (opening the World Stage season at Harbourfront) is a fantastical, re-vamped old-style shadow play that’s powered by a hybrid of hand-animated projections (essentially transparencies on an overhead projector)...
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Last summer during the fringe festival I saw the musical Living with Henry which was a profoundly personal and moving account of a man’s journey living with HIV. When I walked away from that show I felt uplifted and hopeful in spite of the difficult subject matter. I was changed after seeing that production...
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Pomme is french for apple is a remounted show created and performed by Liza Paul and Bahia Watson. It is a funny, fast-paced, raunchy look at what it is to be a woman. I initially wondered if there was enough meat in the script to sustain these two very talented performers but ultimately their...
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Canadian Opera Company’s take on Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s 2000 opera Love From Afar has ambition. However, ambition does not always equal success. Yet, if you stick out the entire performance, you’ll find that the second half becomes much stronger, almost feeling like a different performance. Love from Afar, directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca of...
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Controversy aside, this was a great performance. I’ve never had this many discussions surrounding a musical production before. Usually, everyone is simply impressed that Torontois able to have such great shows and performances add us to their tour stops. In The Heights was met with controversy and a full spectrum of reviews. The production...
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Over the past 3 years we’ve seen the rise of many new modern musicals. It seems the days of Les Miserables, and practically anything Andrew Lloyd Webber, are behind us. These new productions tap into real world experiences and have become the snapshots of our century. Noting the past three years, nothing speaks stronger...
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I wanted so much to love Canadian Stage’s Cruel and Tender because when a play is helmed by a director as acclaimed and talented as Atom Egoyan one expects great things, but so much of this show went terribly wrong. To begin with, I was not a fan of the writing by British playwright...
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Kim’s Convenience is the first fully original Canadian play in Soulpepper’s theatre history. An instant hit at last year’s Fringe Festival, the play continues to delight audiences in their new home. Written by Soulpepper Academy alumnus Ins Choi, this five-person play centres around the fate of a local family-run Regent Park convenience store whose...
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Perhaps one of the most well known operas worldwide, the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Tosca will not disappoint. Puccini’s tale of one woman’s struggles through love, jealousy, treachery and death unfolds on stage in heartbreaking detail. No shrinking violet, Floria Tosca (sung on opening day by Adrianne Pieczonka) is the epitome of a...
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The LOT brings Avenue Q, the Tony Award-winning musical about a slightly run down neighbourhood inhabited by people, puppets and monsters, back to Toronto and if you didn’t see it before, make sure to catch it this time around. This production is a “run, don’t walk,” type of puppet musical genius. At first glance...
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