Theatre Reviews

Come From Away returns triumphant to Toronto’s Royal Alexandra – a story of resilience, now a symbol of resilience

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s season opener Roberto Zucco provokes and disturbs

Life of Pi is a sensory delight with a powerful message: storytelling helps keep us alive

Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmersholm gets a rare and gorgeous production at Crow’s Theatre – but overplays the relevance card

Annie Baker’s Infinite Life an uncanny comedy exploring chronic pain at Coal Mine

Stratford Festival: A new, idiosyncratic stage adaptation of The Diviners could spark a Margaret Laurence revival

Stratford Festival: Salesman in China is a brilliant new play, fully ready to take the world’s stages by storm

Stratford Festival: Deborah Hay’s Lady Gay Spanker will have you bent over with laughter in London Assurance

The Shaw festival’s Snow in Midsummer will tug at your heartstrings

The real mystery isn’t why the Shaw Festival is producing another Sherlock Holmes play (bums in seats) – but who wrote it

Candida, the All Fours of its time, shows its age in latest Shaw Festival revival

Stratford Festival’s Get that Hope is a short and sweet Jamaican Independence Day’s journey into night

At the Stratford Festival, Edward Albee’s The Goat is an opportunity to ruminate deeper on scandals from Schultz to Munro

Hamlet in High Park offers a fresh perspective on a classic, with a couple of missteps

A Streetcar Named Desire is Soulpepper at its best

At the Shaw Festival, The House That Will Not Stand is a fascinating play in a production divided against itself

The Last Timbit may be a giant ad, but it’s more than deserving of your dough

The Orphan of Chao plots an urgent revenge at the Shaw Festival

A sweet, gentle, mindful take on The Secret Garden at the Shaw Festival

Three cheers aren’t enough for One Man, Two Guvnors, which deserves to be a Shaw Festival smash

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical offers explosive energy and an epic leading performance

Aportia Chryptych tells an old Canadian story in a new way

The National Ballet’s corps is radiant in Balanchine’s Jewels

With two shows, the Luminato Toronto Festival solves the housing crisis – and complicates it

Stratford Festival’s restrained new production of Hedda Gabler is too perfunctory and not punk enough

Second City comedy revue All Messed Up & Nowhere To Go finds the funny in awkward moments

Romeo and Juliet gets a fast-paced production at the Stratford Festival

La Cage aux Folles is no drag in uplifting production at Stratford Festival

A divinely inspired Cymbeline showcases Shakespeare’s ‘everything bagel’ at the Stratford Festival

Something Rotten! isn’t deep, but it’s another deliriously fun show from Stratford Festival queen Donna Feore

Come Home – The Legend of Daddy Hall is a thrilling, true story of survival

A Twelfth Night with a terrific Viola opens Stratford Festival 2024 season

The Wrong Bashir paints a loving, humorous picture of the Ismaili community

My Fair Lady’s fascinating, feisty central relationship makes it a rewarding revisit

Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner gets a combustible Canadian premiere

Cirque du Soleil’s Echo - in Toronto, then Gatineau and Vancouver - is a high point for bigtop circus design