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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.

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 Ivo Van Hove’s recent stage revival, and its use of the 'cinematic' closeup with on …

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Noemi Berkowitz / August 22, 2019

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

Midnight proves the perfect time to catch Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe Theatre: hilarity ensues, and a riotous group of groundlings keep …

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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. …

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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 …

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Thomas Ostermeier, Richard III, Lars Eidinger, Ostermeier Richard III

Alex Heeney / October 31, 2017

Review: In Thomas Ostermeier’s Richard III, the bunch-backed toad goes rogue

Thomas Ostermeier's inventive Richard III starring Lars Eidinger made its US debut at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival this month. Even in German …

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Cloud Nine, Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company

Debbie Zhou / August 24, 2017

Sydney Theatre Company’s rollicking Cloud Nine subverts stereotypes

With fast-biting dialogue and quasi-slapstick humour, Sydney Theatre Company’s revival of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine is full of kinetic energy, 38 years after …

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