A place to think deeply about movies
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.
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 …
[Read more...] about Review: In Thomas Ostermeier’s Richard III, the bunch-backed toad goes rogue
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 …
[Read more...] about Sydney Theatre Company’s rollicking Cloud Nine subverts stereotypes
At CalShakes, director Lisa Portes reimagines Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie as a story of a well-intentioned but dysfunctional African American …
[Read more...] about Review: A surprisingly optimistic The Glass Menagerie from Lisa Portes
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 Asperger’s Syndrome …
Drunk Shakespeare is an abridged 90-minute whirlwind version of Macbeth full of jokes, drinks, and audience participation. …
[Read more...] about Drunk Shakespeare is a riveting mix of Macbeth and tequila
San Francisco's site-specific The Speakeasy from Boxcar Theatre invites you into a Prohibition-era haunt with amazing period costumes and design but fall shorts …
[Read more...] about Review: San Francisco’s beautiful The Speakeasy is more bar than theatre
