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Martha Schabas
ContributorWriterToronto, Canada

Martha Schabas is a contributor to The Globe and Mail. Her first novel, Various Positions, was shortlisted for an Evergreen Fiction Award and named a Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and NOW Magazine.

Her essays, arts criticism and short fiction have appeared in several Canadian journals and magazines.

 

Books

Various Positions, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Latest articles

arts
National Ballet of Canada appoints Hope Muir as new artistic director
review
National Ballet’s latest triple bill marries two masters of choreography with a classic crowd-pleaser
film review
What would Virginia Woolf say about the new biopic Vita & Virginia? Nothing complimentary, most likely
theatre & performance
National Ballet misses chance to freshen up Giselle with new leads
review
The Second Woman shows a fascinating – and unnerving – overlap between fiction and real-life
theatre & performance
Soulpepper’s Fool for Love exposes the heart of Sam Shepard’s callous play
theatre & performance
Harbourfront Centre’s Torque brings an international spirit of dance to Toronto
theatre & performance
Direct address is having its feminist theatre moment with Hannah Moscovitch’s The Russian Play
review
Yang Liping’s Rite of Spring is striking, evocative and confounding
review
The choreography of the National Ballet’s Merry Widow can’t match its ravishing sets
theatre & performance
Luminato’s zigzagging House of Mirrors will leave you contemplating more than your reflection
review
Kira, The Path/La Voie brings the energy to Toronto’s Luminato festival
theatre & performance
Dance under the highway: How choreographer Noémie Lafrance will enthrall Torontonians at the Bentway
theatre & performance
William Forsythe’s Physical Thinking at the National Ballet is a rich and vigorous interrogation of the classical medium
review
Tchaikovsky Pro et Contra features high-quality dancing marred by speed and showiness
Martha Schabas
Martha Schabas
film review
Ralph Fiennes’s Nureyev biopic The White Crow falls short of evoking its subject’s artistic majesty
film review
Nureyev has its strengths, but this doc paints too safe a picture of the Soviet dancer
review
James Kudelka’s Four Old Legs makes a profoundly moving duet for Evelyn Hart and Zhenya Cerneacov
opinion
Ballet BC became one of Canada’s boldest companies under Emily Molnar. Ten years later, it may be at an artistic crossroads
Martha Schabas
Martha Schabas
theatre review
Review: Revisor is beautiful, but slips into the shadows