J. Kelly Nestruck

Grand Magic: Third time’s the charm for Antoni Cimolino and Eduardo De Filippo at the Stratford Festival

Nestruck on Theatre: A tale of two Fringes, three to see at Luminato, and a singular festival in Kingston

Rock musical Rent resurrected in a loving production to convert the skeptics at Stratford Festival

Stratford Festival’s AIDS drama Casey and Diana is a moving celebration of women who choose compassion over fear

Serviceable Spamalot a sign of a Stratford Festival failing in quest to find a higher musical-theatre purpose

Paul Gross is non-stop watchable as King Lear at Stratford Festival

At the Shaw Festival, On the Razzle is Tom Stoppard at his most dazzling, least deep

The Stratford Festival ritual of opening week is finally back

Crow’s Theatre’s plays Red Velvet and Uncle Vanya lead the way in nominations for Toronto’s Dora Mavor Moore Awards

The Shaw Festival returns to Narnia with Prince Caspian – and spends a lot of time playing catch up on C.S. Lewis

Gypsy grips once again at the Shaw Festival - thanks to a sublime performance by Kate Hennig

The king returns: After two decades away, Paul Gross is back in Stratford to play Lear

Predicting the Dora Mavor Moore Award nominees, plus: What’s opening on stage across Canada this week

Not dead yet: Four Shaw Festival directors on how to get contemporary chuckles out of classic comedies

Canadian summer theatre dominated by the Bard and the no-holds-barred

Bob Martin drops The Prom on Canada - plus, what else is opening on stages this week

Despite its shortcomings, The Sound Inside is compelling in its premiere at Coal Mine Theatre

In Pamela Mala Sinha’s play New, a new wife upends a new Canadian community

Life of Pi misses the Tony Award nomination boat in a competitive Broadway season for drama. Plus: what’s opening on stages across Canada this week

Gloria: A Life, a play about American feminist Gloria Steinem’s work, will spark hope