Despite strong performances from a gender blind cast, Scott Wentworth's production is a confusing and misguided adaptation. …
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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.
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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Review: In Ostermeier’s Richard III, the bunch-backed toad goes rogue
Thomas Ostermeier's inventive Richard III made its US debut at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival this month. Even in German with English ad-libs, …
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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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Review: A surprisingly optimistic The Glass Menagerie from Lisa Portes
At CalShakes, director Lisa Portes reimagines Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie as a story of a well-intentioned but dysfunctional African American …
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Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is inventive — to a fault
Marianne Elliott’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time takes us inside the mind of Christopher Boone, a sixteen-year-old with …