Theatre & Performance

Broadway-bound revival of The Wiz finds its next Dorothy, thanks in part to TikTok

From on-stage sex scenes to believable kisses, intimacy coaches are helping opera performers navigate tricky territory

Soulpepper’s Detroit: Music of the Motor City drives home its message

Musical sensation ‘Six’ hopes to empower audiences with pop numbers, power ballads

Cirque du Soleil barely survived the pandemic, but its flagship Vegas show, O, sails on

Star soprano Anna Netrebko sues Met Opera over its decision to cut ties over Russia-Ukraine war

Stratford Festival’s Richard III starring Colm Feore coming to CBC and CBC Gem

DION: A Rock Opera to get world premiere as part of Coal Mine Theatre’s four-show 2023-24 season

King Gilgamesh & the Man of the Wild mixes ancient mythology and contemporary Canadian life

A day at Stratford Festival with Rent’s Nestor Lozano Jr.

Women of the Fur Trade’s historical satire exposes women behind Riel rebellions

With Wedding Band, Stratford Festival uncovers potential new classic

The Effect is a cerebral play that’s easy to admire but difficult to love

Some Canadian comics think Just For Laughs’ new record label isn’t so funny

‘Something had to give’: Joel Ivany on leaving Against the Grain Theatre after 13 years

The Shaw Festival’s Game of Love and Chance is a delightful experiment in improv

Hadestown is a triumphant, timely retelling of an age-old myth

Shaw Festival’s ghostly revival of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit lacks spark

How Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown survived growing pains on the long road to Broadway

Village Wooing and Mother, Daughter experiment on, rather than with, the Shaw Festival’s audiences

The Playboy of the Western World won’t cause (or be) a riot at the Shaw Festival, but it still has an edge

Deaf-led theatre company to bring reimagined Shakespeare tale to Toronto festival

Crow’s Theatre and Soulpepper share the spotlight at 43rd annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards

Nestruck on Theatre: How Olivia Chow’s campaign got an assist from a theatre veteran. Plus what’s opening across Canada this week

The Apple Cart rocks at the Shaw Festival with Tom Rooney as a magnetic King Magnus

The Hong Kong Ballet embraces its local identity, amidst a city in flux

Many Broadway shows see box office jumps after Tonys exposure

Ronnie Marmo is not a comedian, he’s Lenny Bruce

Stratford Festival production of Richard II is bold and brash, but not-quite-fully realized

Nestruck on Theatre: Chilina Kennedy’s new musical gets a star-studded recording. Plus: The politics of dimming marquees

Stratford Festival’s brief stage adaptation A Wrinkle in Time will leave kids wanting more - which is not a complaint

‘Exhilarating’ performance of Romeo and Juliet at the National Ballet of Canada

Stratford Festival: Much Ado About Nothing is really something else with a little Shields added to the Shakespeare

No Save Points merges memoir with video game technology

A new play in Winnipeg reveals the secrets of Shakespeare’s ‘dark lady’. Plus: what’s opening on stages across the country this week

Treemonisha achieves sonic unity by bridging the old and the new