“The overall experience is raw: we are swept into the emotional healing of these innocent victims of war.” Sylvie Webb reviews Cahoots Theatre/b current’s world premiere of HILOT MEANS HEALER
“There are parts of Stella’s nature … that are challenging aspects of female humanity to reveal as an actress, especially in our current social-political climate of female empowerment.” Interview with Leah Doz in Soulpepper’s A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
SOL, LUNA AND STELLA runs for one night only as part of Camonos 2019. Our conversation with the play’s creator-performer Andrea Cabeza
“David Yee’s beautiful text invites us to think about our own cultural identity and how the mediated environment of the mall might help to replenish a sense of self.” Read Sylvie Webb’s full review of NO FOREIGNERS
“I hope to help initiate the thought that art is not something to look at from afar but something to engage and have an intimate relationship with.” Our interview with Daniele Bartolini on The Stranger 2.0
Our interview with Diana Bentley about Coal Mine Theatre’s Canadian premiere of KNIVES IN HENS by David Harrower
“We hope that adults will listen to kids in new ways – listen deeply to their ideas and their experiences….[that] they will talk about love and friendships and what it means to live and love on this land.” Sunny Drake, CHILD-ISH
“The more we know about our past, the deeper an insight it can give about our future. And this is especially true when you’re working with the young Canadian artists of today.” ~ Nina Lee Aquino on directing David Yee’s “rochdale”
Our conversation with Cara Gee about her return to the stage in Soulpepper’s FOOL FOR LOVE, the character of May, and the upside of a summer in Toronto
Driftwood Theatre celebrates its 25th birthday with a revival of Shakespeare’s “A (musical) Midsummer Night’s Dream”, performed a cappella. Our interview with director D. Jeremy Smith
Is it theatre? Or is it life? “Charlotte: A Tricoloured Play with Music”, inspired by the autobiographical paintings of Charlotte Salomon, poses this provocative question. Our interview with Shaina Silver-Baird, who plays Charlotte
The actors are “individually winning, and they mesh brilliantly as an ensemble.” Full details in Scott Sneddon’s review of Madeleine Brown’s NEWS PLAY at the Toronto Fringe
