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Toronto Theatre Reviews
Reviews of productions based in Toronto – theatre includes traditional definitions of theatre, as well as dance, opera, comedy, performance art, spoken word performances, and more. Productions may be in-person, or remote productions streamed online on the Internet.
Review: Egad, the Woman in White (The NAGs Players)
by Leanne Milech
NAGs Players score major points for community theatre with Egad, the Woman in White.
The NAGs Players are a community theatre inspiration – starting out as a group of rugby players who wanted something to do in their off-season, the company has been around for more than 30 years, and it is still going strong, with a loyal fan base and three shows a year.
This particular NAGs production is community theatre at its best. Humble, self-referential, smart and teeming with unexpected talent, Egad, the Woman in White makes for a genuinely awesome night of theatre.
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Review: Bethune Imagined (Factory Theatre)
Toronto’s Factory Theatre offers an intoxicating glimpse into the private life of an icon
By George Perry
Ken Gass, Artistic Director for Factory Theatre, must be pleased with the dividends that Bethune Imagined is paying. He wrote and directed this extraordinary play. Certainly Gass is a Toronto Theatre icon as much as Norman Bethune is a communist icon. Catch a glimpse of genius at Factory while you have the chance.
Review: Wide Awake Hearts (Tarragon Theatre)
If you suspect your best friend and your wife are in love with each other, what are you to do about it?
If you’re a successful screenwriter and producer you might just make a film where you cast the two as hot-and-heavy lovers.
Wide Awake Hearts is set staunchly in the world of film, and in being a play about film it is also intrinsically about theatre. It is about writing what you know, or what you think you know; it is about playing a part and trying and failing to divorce yourself from that part; it is about the exquisite manipulation of characters who just might be real people.
As the play opens, credits are projected as if it was a film. The graphics and music are reminiscent of a horror and you know that since you are unlikely to see pure genre on the stage, what you are about to witness will be dark and demented. Continue reading Review: Wide Awake Hearts (Tarragon Theatre)
Review: Private Eyes (Rogue and Peasant Theatre)
By Crystal Wood
Nothing is what it seems in Rogue and Peasant Theatre’s production of Private Eyes, playing at the Lower Ossington Theatre.
But as this play illustrates, sometimes that’s not such a good thing. I was really intrigued to see to this production, after reading that its playwright Steven Dietz is one of the most produced writers in America. However, after seeing Private Eyes, I feel like it’s due more to him being prolific (over 30 plays written) than talented. Fans of Steven Dietz, flame away. Continue reading Review: Private Eyes (Rogue and Peasant Theatre)