Theatre & Performance

Angels in America: Tony Kushner’s two-part classic is as necessary as ever, even in That Theatre Company’s imperfect Toronto production

Art of Time Ensemble founder Andrew Burashko says goodbye with one more Christmas show

Nestruck on Theatre: With Narnia and Alice, Bad Hats lead a boom in original holiday family musicals

Daniel MacIvor’s Monster and Here Lies Henry are plays emblematic of a decades-long partnership

Send in the cloned pets: With Here We Are, Stephen Sondheim left behind a musical satire of the 1 per cent as his popularity surges in the demo

Onegin’s crisp choreography redeems its stale storyline

To Kill a Mockingbird at Mirvish makes a rare touring stop in Toronto for a big-budget Broadway play

Groundbreaking contemporary dancer Louise Lecavalier’s Stations arrives in Toronto

Nestruck on Theatre: Why The Lion King won’t roar newer musicals off the Toronto stage

The Lion King roaring back to Toronto in 2024 for an unprecedented second open-ended run

Prophecy Fog at Coal Mine Theatre feels essential at this moment in time

Part of the appeal of The Lehman Trilogy is the absence of a large, obvious statement

At Tarragon Theatre, Morris Panych’s Withrow Park is an unthreatening comedy of menace

Nestruck on Theatre: What parts are Steve Carrell and Tom Rooney both checking off their lists in 2024?

New Second City revue Chaos Menu: Disorder Up! makes light of life’s everyday absurdities

National Ballet of Canada’s pairing of Passion, Emma Bovary works, though the latter is easier to love

Bad Roads, a brutally revealing Ukrainian play about war in the digital age, takes the stage at Crows Theatre

Kim’s Convenience moving shop to London, England, with director Esther Jun at the helm

Stratford Festival to see returns of Sara Topham, Vanessa Sears and Deborah Hay in 2024

Lucy Eveleigh joins Luminato as festival producer after departing Fringe

Nestruck on Theatre: Israel-set thriller The Runner returns to the stage as war rages

Sandra Caldwell’s The Guide to Being Fabulous keeps it real and rollicking

Jagged Little Pill is full of beauty, pain and raw emotion, like the album that inspired it

The Wild Rovers, inspired by the Irish Rovers, leaves audience in want of a portal out

Israeli performer Niv Petel portrays an army liaison in one-man show Knock Knock

Alanis Morissette talks activism, feminism and musicals: ‘Anger as a life force is delicious’

How Donald Trump’s win in 2016 pushed Will Arbery to get Heroes of the Fourth Turning on stage

La Bohème offers reminder of opera’s deep connection with messy, real human life

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate forces us to consider the foundations of our existence

Siminovitch Prize shortlist for 2023 includes playwrights d’bi.young anitafrika, Mishka Lavigne

New works, mostly by women, dominate the Canadian dance landscape this fall

Love, justice and freedom resonate through Canadian Opera Company’s Fidelio

Roy Orbison jukebox musical In Dreams will leave you feeling good about feeling bad

Walter Borden’s The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time is a retrospective of the veteran actor’s life, and a reason to smile

Slow-burning Topdog/Underdog plays a complex riff on race and masculinity like a quietly haunting blues

Six reigns supreme with long-awaited Toronto arrival