Here are all of the shows we wish we could get out and see this week! Take your pick from our list of great theatre escapes for the week of May 11th, 2011:
** Shows marked with the double asterisks and in red are the ones that make Megan, our editor, wish she could clone herself so she could check them all out. Continue reading Eye-Catching Toronto Theatre for the Week of May 11th, 2011
Here are all of the shows we wish we could get out and see this week! Take your pick from our list of great theatre escapes for the week of May 5th, 2011:
** Shows marked with the double asterisks and in red are the ones that make Megan, our editor, wish she could clone herself so she could check them all out. Continue reading Eye Catching Toronto Theatre for the Week of May 2, 2011
By Jenna Rocca
The Soulpepper Theatre Company returns to its roots with its hit classic, 2006 Dora Award-winning production of Our Town, the first play performed in Soulpepper’s Toronto home, the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.
Our Town is framed in a meta-theatrical world, guided by a character named the “Stage Manager.” Albert Schultz, Soulpepper’s Founding Artistic Director, slips into the role seamlessly, and his performance while the houselights are still on, placing the set pieces with precision, prompted my show companion to note facetiously: “I like how Albert Shultz really takes the time to make sure everything is perfectly in place; it just goes to show the care he puts in,” as if he does this for every production. Tee hee hee. We had high hopes.
The nameless narrator played by the company’s Director adds a very strong dimension to this otherwise deliberately banal play. Schultz really is a charismatic force and his moments onstage were the most electric. Continue reading Review: Our Town (Soulpepper)
Here are all of the shows we wish we could get out and see this week! Take your pick from our list of great theatre escapes for the week of April 25th, 2011:
** Shows marked with the double asterisks and in red are the ones that make Megan, our editor, wish she could clone herself so she could check them all out. Continue reading Eye Catching Toronto Theatre for the Week of April 25th
Here are all of the shows we wish we could get out and see this week! Take your pick from our list of great theatre escapes for the week of April 18th, 2011:
** Shows marked with the double asterisks and in red are the ones that make Megan, our editor, wish she could clone herself so she could check them all out. Continue reading Eye Catching Toronto Theatre for the Week of April 18th