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Theatre

Here you will find reviews of local theatre productions the world round, with a particular focus on the Greater Toronto Area and the San Francisco Bay Area. We also review many "Digital Theatre" productions — live recordings of theatre — and explore how this new medium presents theatre productions, for better or worse. We especially focus on NTLive, RSC On Screen, and Globe Theatre On Screen productions. And we have a soft spot for modern Shakespeare productions.

Alex Heeney / December 3, 2024

Theatre Review: HONEY I’M HOME at Factory Theatre

Alex Heeney reviews Lester Trips’ inventive and invigorating production of HONEY I’M HOME, part of the Factory Theatre’s season of shows about AI and technology.

Alex Heeney / June 20, 2024

Theatre Review: A Streetcar Named Desire at Soulpepper in Toronto

Alex Heeney reviews the Soulpepper Theatre’s remount of their 2019 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Artistic Director Weyni Mengeshi. The production updates the performances to reflect modern mores to mixed results as the interpretation clashes with Tennessee Williams’ text in the second half.

Two stills stitched together, one of Bette Davis in the 1950 film All About Eve, the other of Gillian Anderson in the 2019 stage adaptation.

B. P. Flanagan / November 27, 2020

All About Eve at 70: A closeup on Joseph Mankiewicz’s classic and its stage adaptation

On the 70th anniversary of Joseph Mankiewicz’s All About Eve, we dissect why Ivo Van Hove’s recent stage revival, and its attempts to be ‘cinematic’, pales in comparison.

Noemi Berkowitz / August 22, 2019

Review: The Globe’s A Midsummer (Mid)night’s Dream

Combine Shakespeare’s Globe, Shakespeare’s most performed play, and a riotous group of groundlings (they heeded the BYOB on that RSVP) and you have all the ingredients for an entertaining night at the theatre.

Seana McKenna, Michelle Giroux, Scott Wentworth, Julius Caesar

Mary Angela Rowe / September 8, 2018

Et Tu, Bathos? Julius Caesar underwhelms at the Stratford Festival

Despite strong performances from a gender blind cast, Scott Wentworth’s production is a confusing and misguided adaptation.

Stratford Ideal Husband

Alex Heeney / August 20, 2018

Stratford’s An Ideal Husband is timeless in the worst sense of the word

This solid, entertaining, and funny production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband at Ontario’s Stratford Festival is nevertheless inert, old-fashioned, and often tone deaf.

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