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Artists to Watch at the Toronto Fringe

From seasoned theatre vets to talented newcomers, here are some artists guaranteed to generate buzz — and lineups

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Reviews: Paranormal Activity, Caged Bird, Pearle Harbour, American Devotion and more

The UK thriller loosely based on the found-footage films is frighteningly effective

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Luminato and Bealtaine Fests, plus: Yiddish Fiddler, Primary Trust, Tiger Bride, Next to Normal and more

Festival season begins with international offerings, plus a round-up of late spring openings

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Dora Awards 2026 nominations: snubs and surprises

Dance Nation, Octet and Through the Eyes of God receive multiple nods, while theatre icons like Tom Rooney and Clare Coulter get snubbed

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Durae McFarlane puts his trust in a heartwarming new play at Crow’s

In the Pulitzer Prize-winning Primary Trust, the up-and-coming actor plays a man who is forced to move on after suffering several losses

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Richard Lee travels to Middle-Earth (and back again) at Stratford

The actor takes on the biggest role of his career as the small but mighty title character in The Hobbit

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Capturing 20 years of the performing arts in photos

In her Contact show 50/20, photojournalist Racheal McCaig celebrates two decades of theatre, dance and comedy, onstage and behind the scenes

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Toronto Theatre Critics‘ Awards honour the best of the 2025-26 season

Through the Eyes of God, Octet, The Neighbours, The Division and Eureka Day wowed critics this season

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Review roundup: Dog Man: The Musical, cicadas, Take Rimbaud, 12 Litres 8800 Steps

A musical based on Dav Pilkey’s beloved children’s books was the best thing I saw last week

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A tale of two (jukebox) musicals — plus a Stratford ticket giveaway

In less than 24 hours, I went from the sublime new Tragically Hip musical to a monotonous Neil Diamond pseudo concert

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Hot Docs review: Antoni Cimolino film fawns over its subject

This Above All gives a solid overview of the outgoing Stratford Fest artistic director’s life and career, but it feels like hagiography

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The delicate dance of directing Dance Nation

Director Diana Bentley and movement director Alyssa Martin discuss the wildly polarizing show about pre-teen competitive hoofers

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Mining the oil sands situation in Strife

Matthew MacKenzie’s new play at the Tarragon explores the complexities of the oil industry among a group of Indigenous characters

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Some spring cleaning, Part 2: two new Canadian plays, two remounts

Catching up on works by Nicolas Billon, Judith Thompson, Michael Ross Albert and Himanshu Sitlani & Neha Poduval

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Some spring cleaning, Part 1: Three classics revisited

Intriguing takes on Cyrano de Bergerac, Miss Julie and the Medea myth heat up Toronto stages

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Queering up a century-old love story in Cyrano

Australia’s Virginia Gay talks catfishing, rewriting tragic endings and how live theatre is an empathy machine

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Winter review roundup #4: Some Like it Hot, Summer and Smoke, Night at the Grand Guignol and more

Genre play inspired by a notorious Paris theatre gets the week’s highest recommendation

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Q&A: Eureka Day’s Sarah McVie and Jake Epstein

Two co-stars of Toronto’s funniest play discuss parenthood, politics, vaccines and absurd Zoom calls

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Winter review roundup #3: Through the Eyes of God, You, Always, Eureka Day and Witch

Don’t miss Anusree Roy’s follow-up to her first play, as well as a moving Erin Shields two-hander and a biting satire about a mumps outbreak

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Winter review roundup #2: A Doll’s House, The Last Five Years, Mischief and Dead of Winter Horror Fest

A propulsive production of an Ibsen classic and a promising debut by playwright Lisa Nasson are part of this week’s reviews

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Winter review roundup #1: Kimberly Akimbo, Company, Pu Songling, A Question of Character

The theatre scene heats up with two Tony Award-winning musicals, an adaptation of a 17th-century Chinese writer’s stories and a tense historical two-hander

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Curtain rises on new season of CBC theatre podcast PlayME

This year’s audio dramas include Kim’s Convenience, The Drawer Boy and a new play by Nicolas Billon that’s at the Tarragon in late February

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Interview: Toasting the Ladies Who Lunch with Company’s Gabi Epstein

The acclaimed actor and cabaret artist discusses learning from Sondheim, interpreting iconic songs and the secret to a happy marriage

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What to look for on Toronto stages this winter

From star turns by Clare Coulter and Louise Pitre to the remount of a canonical Canadian musical, here are some shows getting big buzz this season

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The Top 10 Toronto theatre artists of 2025 — plus the year’s breakthrough talents

Kaylee Harwood, bahia watson, Arkady Spivak, Ted Dykstra, Vanessa Sears and George Krissa top my list of the year’s big scene makers