Out-of-town Theatre End of summer roundup, Part 2: out-of-town The Last Five Years and Grease in Gananoque, And No Birds Sang in Port Hope and Dora Awards debacle
Out-of-town Theatre How my neighbour got me to fall in love with Guys and Dolls all over again At the Stratford Festival, the classic musical is an odds-on favourite, but I wasn’t totally sold on Death of a Salesman
Out-of-town Theatre Shaw Festival reviews x2: Funny Girl makes a splash, Jeeves sinks Sara Farb delivers a true star turn as Fanny Brice in Eda Holmes’ fine staging of the uneven musical
Theatre Joseph Ziegler, plus heading Back to the Future and visiting the Hamilton Fringe I remember the gifted actor and director, and review a disappointing movie-to-stage musical as well as three shows at the Hamilton Fringe Festival
Out-of-town Theatre Review: Steel Magnolias blossoms in Port Hope Even if you know the movie, you’ll enjoy watching six of the city’s finest actors deliver some good ol’ fashioned Southern comfort
Out-of-town Theatre Shakespeare x2: Macbeth and The Winter’s Tale at Stratford One of these productions is exquisite, while the other is full of sound, fury and mock motorcycles, signifying not a helluva lot
Out-of-town Theatre Bonus Canada Day post: My first trip to the Blyth Festival I review the world premiere of Emma Donoghue's The Wind Coming Over the Sea and a revival of Drew Hayden Taylor's Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion
Out-of-town Theatre Naughty or nice: Stratford Festival musicals pay off big time The sunny Annie and the darkly funny Dirty Rotten Scoundrels both deliver first-rate entertainment
Out-of-town Theatre Two rarely performed plays take centre stage at the Shaw Festival Works by James Baldwin and Edith Wharton add novelty – if not great drama – to Niagara-on-the-Lake
Out-of-town Theatre Seasons of Love Reviews of Stratford's Rent, Spamalot and Richard II; No Save Points gets extended; and R.U.R. A Torrent of Light impresses North American critics
Out-of-town Theatre Review: Mahabharata soars at Shaw Festival and gets ready to tour Eight years in the making, Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes's adaptation of the 4000-year-old Sanskrit poem is a remarkable multidisciplinary achievement
