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Dance of the Red Skirts

Theatre Columbus’s latest production, Dance of the Red Skirts, is a flimsy collection of loosely related skits that derives all of its power from the performances of three likable, very talented performers. The title of the play and inspiration for the skits is a 1924 painting by the Swiss-born painter Paul Klee (1879-1940) in...

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Sexual Practices of the Japanese

BY Gord McLaughlin

It’s all here: the masturbators who grope girls on a packed subway; subservient women and overbearing men; a love of gadgets; corporate loyalty; and a baseball fetish that just won’t quit. This show...

Pelléas et Mélisande

BY Christopher Hoile

“Elusive” is an adjective always used about Claude Debussy’s 1902 opera Pelléas et Mélisande, but in the Canadian Opera Company’s current production, a first-rate cast, intriguing design ...

Dead Ahead

BY Christopher Hoile

Good plays for young people seem to be divided into two sorts — those that are simply good plays that anyone can enjoy and those that are primarily good for discussion. Dead Ahead, the ...

Alias Godot

Brendan Gall’s Alias Godot is the kind of show that could be lots of fun if it were an improv sketch. “Show why Godot never arrives in Waiting for Godot,” someone might call out, and the troupe ...

Idomeneo

Opera Atelier is well known for the consistent quality of its productions, but sometimes a production rises above this already high level. Such is OA’s new production of Mozart’s opera Idomeneo (1781), in ...

Masks and Madness in Macbeth

This eye-catching production shines a gaudy and sometimes revealing new light on Macbeth. With outsized performances and costumes, it cleverly illuminates some scenes and makes a ribald farce of others. Though...

The Mikado

Toronto Operetta Theatre has assembled an absolutely top-notch cast for its current revival of The Mikado. Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas have always been prized for their cleverness and wit, but what’s most...

Cranked

Green Thumb Theatre of Vancouver is currently presenting its powerful hip-hop show Cranked at the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People. Aimed at an audience aged 13 and up, the 45-minute play by Michael P. ...

Daughter of the House

With its Bodhrán-heavy soundtrack and ruddy-haired protagonist, Daughter of the House is not exactly subtle about its Hibernian origins....

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