Review: Creepy “cicadas” burrows deep in Tarragon’s startling eco-thriller
“This play is a mystery that operates on geological, civilizational, and human-familial scales simultaneously, and she never lets one overwhelm the others.” ~ Scott Sneddon
Review: “How to Catch Creation” catches fire in one of the best shows of the year
“Director Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu has assembled a company firing on all cylinders to deliver one of the finest, funniest and most thematically rich productions of the year.” Scott Sneddon
Review: Brilliant and gimmicky by design, it’s “Dance Nation”
“This engrossing theatrical experience has more than one interesting and important thing to say about ambition, bodies, and the capabilities and selves that girls shed to become themselves.” ~ Scott Sneddon
Review: “Knife’s” timely, vulnerable take on male friendship cuts deep
“Knife cuts deep. Men, especially, will leave with questions that linger after the lights come up.” ~ Scott Sneddon
Review: “Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary” delivers a new and quite contrary Gospel
“It’s a wild and wondrous experience, but also a demanding one.” ~ Scott Sneddon
Review: “Boys with Cars” dances its still-devastating dual truths
“Two stories: one system. Embodied in a single powerful performance.” ~ Scott Sneddon
Review: Tarragon’s “Strife”: oil patch contradictions explode into daring conversations
“The special wonder of this world premiere production, which is directed with clarity and care by Yvette Nolan, is the way its form precisely matches its function.” ~ Scott Sneddon
Review: “Murder at Mosquito Cove” is a stylized, engrossing “Law and Order: Nfld.”
“As a debut from Walnut Productions, this work is small but mighty,” ~ Scott Sneddon
Review: “Queen Maeve” showed me my (r)aging mother in an unexpected new light
“This is a play about the deeper reasons for getting up: the need to reckon with what’s past, to recognize what’s buried, and to face one’s life, lineage, and imminent ending.” ~ Scott Sneddon
Review: Icarus’s combustible “Julie” tells two provocative stories in one
Review of Polly Stenham’s “Julie,” presented by Icacus Theatre at Tarragon Theatre’s Extraspace
Review: “Syndrome” locks us in — and makes us start cleaning
“The show’s “cold open” punches hard, and the staging makes maximal use of minimal confines, with Kyle’s wall‑work especially evocative.” ~ Scott Sneddon
Review of “The Herald”: You can only “know by going”
“As performance, The Herald is dense, poetic immersion, rather than linear narrative. ” ~ Scott Sneddon