Theatre

As close as it gets

I’m So Close It’s Not Even Funny brings a taste of Stephen Hawking to the Free Fall Festival

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Shake free from the devil

BY Paul Gallant

J.T. Rogers’ The Overwhelming explores pre-Dallaire Rwanda

Get in line

BY Paul Gallant

As one of Canada’s top playwrights, MacIvor's work has always wrestled with fear and hope, autonomy and co-dependence, self-creation and nihilism. Communion is the second in a trilogy of plays that...

Sick muse

BY Paul Gallant

Playwright Adam Pettle (Zadie’s Shoes, Mosley and Me) wrote Therac 25 in his early 20s when he was undergoing radiation therapy. Named after a poorly designed Canadian cancer-radiation machine that...

Jess undressed

Performance artist Jess Dobkin moves beyond genital parlour tricks to expose herself in a different way in Everything I've Got

Clouded judgement

Cloud 9 portrays happiness and freedom throughout the ages

Creature discomforts

Judith Thompson links two worlds — Auschwitz 1945 and Toronto 2010 — via Shakespeare

Return of the living dead

The 2000s saw the persistence of the so-called dead arts, and the death of the avant-garde (2)

Seasons in the sun

What impact has The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts had on the consumption of high culture in Toronto? These figures measuring attendance vs. capacity from the National Ballet of Canada and the Canadian Opera Company — who previously made their...

The play! The play!

2009 was marked by the deaths of some of Canada’s most notable theatre artists. Neil Munro, one of the country’s greatest stage directors, combined a distinctive style of multi-layer staging with penetrating insight. Douglas Campbell, Canada’s... (3)

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