This spare, thoughtful staging prioritizes a clarity of text that comes through even when the script’s overall trajectory is less than clear.

With the lights fading on another year of theatre, we asked 12 Ontario performing arts writers to reflect on a moment that stayed with them.

With the lights fading on another year of theatre, we asked 12 Ontario performing arts writers to reflect on a moment that stayed with them.

In order to discover the secrets of this Dora Award-nominated production, I met with members of the team as they prepared for the show.

Rooney and Healey skewer the Rogers family with a disarmingly relaxed virtuosity that the surrounding production sometimes lets down.

James Kudelka’s 'Nutcracker' treats children as imaginative equals and adults as worthy of a sprinkling of magic, too.

The spirit of openness and the joy of discovery rule over this 'Narnia' at Soulpepper in the Distillery District. Open the wardrobe and see.

Rather than directly representing online life, 'Public Consumption' speculates about how the digital world affects our bodies.

'Moonlight Schooner' is animated and visually stunning, but its individual pieces don’t come together as neatly as I would've expected.

Amy Rutherford’s world premiere script is ambitious and the material it covers is complex — but the narrative feels disjointed.

'a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)': the title says it all, offering a definition for an absent word.

"'[What things] have to die and fall away in order for new things to grow?’" wonders 'Narnia' adaptor-director Fiona Sauder.

Among softly falling snowflakes, dense rum cake, and a tree that twirls of its own accord, 'The Christmas Market' unfolds.

For the first half of the show, you can’t help but focus on director Jacquie P.A. Thomas' thoughtful scenic choices.

Dora Award–winning composer Njo Kong Kie 楊光奇 on redefining what makes someone an “artist” — and why the label still feels complicated.

At face value, 'Pandora' resembles random chaos. But weave its parts together and a story emerges that is equal parts moving and fascinating.

Macabre and drama-filled yet surprisingly gentle, 'The Comeuppance' will probably be most compelling to the around-40 crowd.

In this staging of 'Le Malentendu,' director Karine Ricard banishes all earthly joy from the scene, leaving behind an almost lunar coldness.

Her multilingual play 'Rise, Red River' connects environmental devastation with the intergenerational impacts of colonial violence.

The Far Side of the Moon begins and ends with a large mirror on stage, and the show uses it to raise tantalizingly enigmatic questions.

'Procession,' the National Ballet of Canada’s brooding and stylized world premiere ballet, rushes to the stage with startling vitality.

Making its Toronto premiere in the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace, Sunny Drake's 'CHILD-ish' is a giggly good time, if a pinch oversweet.

Sarah Kitz’s Great Canadian Theatre Company production leans into the play’s real strength: its exploration of narrative.

Emerging director Dean Deffett has concocted a tight, straightforward production, primarily of interest as an intimate character study.

Co-writer Steve Martin’s wit, which blazes in plays like 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile,' merely twinkles here.

Most of the six works I viewed tackled urgent topics, from the Canadian immigration system to the Palestinian experience of displacement.

Writer-performer David Gagnon Walker’s production puts a mythical spin on anxiety, loneliness, and the precarity of the present.

Intermission is honouring the play’s divisive reputation by presenting a pair of reviews written independently of one another.

I was surprised to find an image as simple as the pair peacefully spooning in bed struck a sympathetic chord with me.

“There’s a venn diagram [in which] wolf displacement across Canada matches Indigenous displacement,” playwright Colin Wolf.

'Tell Tale Harbour' at Mirvish makes good on spinning a yarn as warm as a mug-up with music as catchy as a fiddle reel.

Director 郝邦宇 Steven Hao hits the carnival bullseye when it comes to heart and fun, but just misses the top prize by expanding the cast.

This production of Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' embraces the bodily sensibilities of Beckett’s dark humour.

Director Helen Juvonen’s subtle, atmospheric production makes for an unnerving horror theatre experience.

Dave Malloy’s intricate a cappella compositions are the hymns and confessionals in a show about a support group for internet addiction.

The specter of death is omnipresent in Phalanx, one of the offerings at the 2025 SummerWorks Performance Festival.

An effective staging by Weyni Mengesha and a large cross-section of the city’s most powerful actors make for compelling viewing.

“This is an ensemble of some of the most extraordinary femme actors in the country and beyond,” says Beaty.

“This is an ensemble of some of the most extraordinary femme actors in the country and beyond,” says Beaty.

"I disagree with how the Western world has equated shadows with darkness and ignorance and evil," says Rollins.

The Edmonton Fringe wholeheartedly integrates itself into the city’s urban environment, energizing a rich array of spaces.

Since reading 'Slave Play,' I’ve asked every romantic partner whether or not they experience a racial dynamic between us in the bedroom.

Four southern Ontario theatres are collaborating with Intermission Magazine to continue advancing the field of theatre criticism.

Erin Shields’ brilliant Ransacking Troy reimagines one of Western culture’s foundational narratives, the Trojan War.

It’s a refreshing reimagining that isn’t overly concerned with preserving the sanctity of the source material.

Both explored memory, loss, and the body’s way of carrying history — one did so with devastating intimacy, the other with cerebral play.

Historically, the Sawitri Theatre Group has aimed to platform South Asian performing arts, and its festival inherits this focus.

Rainbow on Mars is a multisensory experience that goes beyond visual spectacle to create an all-encompassing narrative world.