By Dana Lacey

This may be your last chance to watch Rent done right. It’s only in town for two weeks, and rumours say the starring duo are retiring once it’s done. Catch the Pulitzer-prize earning, 10-time Tony award-winning musical before it’s too late. Continue reading Rent – Presented by Mirvish at Canon Theatre →

By: Darryl D’Souza

                                                                                                                                                        Watching Icarus Redux at the Next Stage Festival was a strange experience for me.  I can’t say that I loved it, but I didn`t loathe it either. The gap between the original myth of Icarus and Daedalus and this production is rather enormous. 

If you don’t know the myth, basically Daedalus, imprisoned in Crete with his son Icarus, devised a pair of wings made out of wax and feathers to escape captivity.  He warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sea, as the wing’s feathers would get wet.  And, more notoriously, not to fly too close to the sun as the heat would cause the wax attaching the wings to melt.  Icarus flew too close to the sun, the wax melted, and he plummeted to his death into the sea.  Daedalus mourned the loss of his son, whose death he had caused by creating the wings. 

Here’s where Icarus Redux picks up.  It’s about the relationship between a father and son, seemingly imprisoned in their home (a modern Crete).  Continue reading Next Stage Festival – Icarus Redux →

By Sam Mooney

Have you ever noticed that plays based on actual events are always heartbreaking?  The Making of St Jerome from eastBoundplayers playing as part of the Next Stage Festival is no exception.  The most heartbreaking thing about the play is that there are no answers, not even to the most basic question.  Why?

Continue reading Next Stage Festival – The Making of St. Jerome – eastBOUNDtheatre →