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Nancy Palk & Diego Matamoros in Necessary Angel's Winter Solstice at Canadian Stage. iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.

REVIEW: Psychology and ideology collide in Necessary Angel’s austere Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice left me in a state of tension — pondering whether, in a similar situation, I’d be more likely to flirt with or kill a potentially evil man.

By Liam Donovan / Jan 22, 2025
iPhoto caption: Photo by Ann Baggley.

REVIEW: Here For Now’s Dinner with the Duchess is an aching étude on the cost of creative passion

Dinner with the Duchess is a tallying of an artistic life’s costs that builds a symphony out of simple presentation, resounding long past the final note.

By jonnie lombard / Jan 21, 2025
iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.

REVIEW: Wights sizzles with ambition at Crow’s Theatre

While the play’s genre-straddling form feels slightly too ambitious for its concept, this sheer ambition is exciting, challenging audiences to think, while warning us that we can only go so far with words.

By Ilana Lucas / Jan 20, 2025
Production photo of Last Landscape at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. iPhoto caption: Photo by Fran Chudnoff.

REVIEW: Bad New Days’ Last Landscape unearths raw feelings about the natural world

Last Landscape uses physical theatre, puppetry, and found objects to erode the boundaries between art and nature, human and environment.

By Ferron Delcy / Jan 18, 2025