I have seen several versions of Rent and it is one of my favourite musicals so I was excited to see what Lower Ossington Theatre Company would bring to this production. I have consistently been blown away by the extraordinary vocal talent that this company showcases and this musical is no exception. Most of...
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The Hunger, an immersive performance installation devised by architect Margaret Krawecka, and with Mal Nowacka (The Chimera Project), Ulysses Castellanos and Richard Windeyer (bluemouth inc.) The Hunger tells the original fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. Audience members walk through a 500 sq ft installation made of vacuum-sealed bread, and are lead by performers...
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Home, written by David Storey is not action packed—in fact the show takes place on a nearly bare stage with the actors mainly stationary for the duration of the play, but the contents of this material are rife with emotion and surprising turns. Apparently the playwright wrote all his plays in two or three...
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Seventh Stage and Nightwood Theatre’s production of Stockholm is a disturbing and thrilling piece of theatre. Bryony Lavery, best known for her Tony nominated play Frozen, makes the interesting choice of having the characters speak about themselves in the third person and in verse. This not only gives the piece a poetic quality but...
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A play on drug abuse is not new; it’s an afterschool special we’ve all seen before. So why should High cause such interest? It’s more. It’s a power struggle between an angry teen Cody Randall (Evan Jonigkeit) who knows how to push buttons and hustle his way through any situation and a nun, Sister...
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Bring It On: the Musical not only brought it, they knocked it out of the playing field. This is a fantastic show which I am sure is destined to have a Broadway run. I would be surprised if anyone found this hip, cool and current musical anything but thrilling. I was actually dreading...
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Soulpepper’s current production of You Can’t Take It With You is a delight from start to finish. The play was written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart and won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. You Can’t Take It With You is old fashioned fun with lots of laughs and some magical theatrical...
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I have attended several Canadian Stage productions and The Game of Love and Chance is definitely my favourite production to date. The play written by Marivaux was first performed nearly 300 years ago in Paris and has been freshly adapted and translated by Nicolas Billon. The plot of this madcap farce is simple enough....
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Jack Rennie as Love and Peggy Kriha Dye as Armide Opera Atelier returns to the Elgin theatre for their second production of the 2011/2012 season with Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Armide. This French Baroque opera provides all the joys that come with live theatre; it is a sensual feast for the eyes, ears and heart. Armide...
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Many of us will remember the 2001 movie starring Reese Witherspoon as the blonde sorority queen who makes it her mission to enter Harvard law and win back her boyfriend, only to discover there’s much more to her blonde hair and pink nail polish – a knack for law. Many will have the full...
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