Sweet comedy aims to shake off the winter blahs
Heather Solomon looks at the lively production of Merton of the Movies, which is currently playing at the Harold Greenspon Auditorium in Côte St-Luc.
Civil liberties debated in revival of popular play
Michael Fraiman speaks with playwright Dave Carley about the currently running revival of his play, Taking Liberties.
Tony Kushner musical focuses on characters
The Musical Stage Company and Obsidian Theatre are reimagining their 2012 award-winning production of Caroline, Or Change, a musical about a black maid working for a Jewish family in 1963 Louisiana, set against the Kennedy assassination and the civil rights movement.
A unique production: a play set at a silent retreat
Heather Solomon looks at the Segal Centre’s production of Small Mouth Sounds.
Play celebrates survivor’s lost bar mitzvah
Playwright Alicia DesMarteau is co-ordinating a staged reading of her new play, My Lost Bar Mitzvah, which is about Holocaust survivor George Stern’s life from 1941 to 1948, beginning when he was 10 and ending when he was 17. The reading takes place at Beth Torah Congregation in Toronto on Dec. 12.
Comedian brings his Jewish-Italian family back
Steve Solomon is bringing back his one-man play, My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m In Therapy, to the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts tonight.
The Message is the medium that channels McLuhan
Dorothy Lichtblau reviews Jason Sherman’s play The Message, now playing at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.
Bar Mitzvah Boy about keeping faith through adversity
Kathryn Kates interviews actress Hannah Miller, star of The Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company’s Bar Mitzvah Boy.
Unique one-man play set to run through Toronto
David Silverberg writes about Christopher Morris’ new play, The Runner.
Outgoing Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre artistic director to be honoured at JNF gala
After 31 years at the helm of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Steven Schipper is fast approaching his last curtain call. In six months, Canada’s longest-serving artistic director will be retiring.
