Arts

Broadway’s Music Man cancels performances as Hugh Jackman tests positive for COVID-19

To avoid more closings like Toronto’s Come From Away, governments need to support Canada’s performing-arts sector

Vancouver appearance by unvaccinated superstar podcaster Joe Rogan is cancelled

Yoko Ono’s work comes to Vancouver Art Gallery with Growing Freedom: The instructions of Yoko Ono / The art of John and Yoko

Can you still enjoy Harry Potter if you don’t want to support J.K. Rowling?

Five theatre performances we can look forward to in 2022 (if COVID allows them to proceed)

Live music will be uncertain in 2022, but these concerts give us something to hope for

The most exciting Canadian books coming in 2022

From Impressionism to Indigenous art, five upcoming exhibits to entice visual-art enthusiasts in 2022

Here it comes: Homespun fun, satire and a revival of classic reality TV

The biggest 2022 big-screen blockbusters that actually might be good movies, too

The 10 worst movies of a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad 2021

Come From Away permanently closes in Toronto amid surge of COVID-19 cases

Director and producer Jean-Marc Vallée dead at 58

Ontario psychiatrist explores the mind’s ties to every part of the body in new book

Incendiary Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée, dead at 58, was just getting started

‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ surpasses US$1-billion globally in second weekend

Harvey Evans, who landed roles in Broadway classics ‘West Side Story,’ ‘Follies,’ dies at 80

The Marvelettes’ Wanda Young, of ‘Please Mr. Postman’ fame, dies at 78

The shows must not go on, and for Canadian artists, cancelling holiday tours hurts

American Underdog fumbles its faith-based filmmaking

The Globe’s annual Christmas painting: Rivière du Gouffre, Baie St. Paul

Woman accuses ‘Sex and the City’ actor Chris Noth of groping

Four Toronto performances of Come From Away cancelled after backstage crew member tests positive for COVID-19

Joan Didion, author and essayist, dies at 87

Arts workers scramble as federal support fund not coming until spring

Meet David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon, the unlikely novelists behind The Matrix Resurrections

Tom Thomson art exhibition shines spotlight on issues of authenticity

Denzel Washington’s melodramatic A Journal for Jordan is out of step with reality

Michael B. Jordan knows how to play Hollywood’s game

‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ actor Sally Ann Howes dies at 91

The Top 10 Canadian films of 2021, a year of life-sustaining cinema

‘Summer of Soul,’ ‘Drive My Car’ make Oscars shortlist

Fun and frolics: A list of (mostly) new series and specials for the holidays

The Matrix Resurrections is the whoa-level blockbuster 2021 deserves

Power at the university: Books that explore higher education as the rehearsal room for democracy

No country for old kings: Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is bold, bloody and resolute

Just as the curtain was rising again, live theatre scrambles to deal with shutdowns and capacity restrictions

The Future Diary: A Netflix heartbreaker about real love, real people

Ontario theatres cancel shows amid new restrictions to combat Omicron COVID-19 variant

The good, bad and Canadian news behind Spider-Man: No Way Home’s record-breaking weekend