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REVIEW: Tarragon’s Craze lacks focus — that’s what makes it fun

A frenzied test of endurance, Craze whips along like a social media feed on steroids, sprinting from image to image with wild, masculine bravado.

A Lord of the Flies adaptation hits the Hart House Theatre stage this weekend

Andrea Perez is set to direct the student-led production, which will reimagine the story through a de-colonialist lens.

REVIEW: Erased at TPM sends its greetings from a precarious future

It’s in the moments of poignant ambiguity that Open Heart Surgery Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille’s Erased really succeeds in firing up the audience’s imaginations, inviting us to try envisioning a better future.

REVIEW: Baram and Snieckus’ Big Stuff uses improv to explore the materiality of grief

The couple’s Second City-tested comic repartee keeps the show moving with delicious lightness.

Why I’m tired of cripface in Toronto theatre

Cripface is when an able-bodied, or able-passing, person performs a disabled experience that isn’t their own. Local theatre companies large and small, indie and established, have engaged in this practice. 

REVIEW: The Bidding War is a Lear-worthy extravaganza of housing hell

Ultimately, Albert’s play isn’t just about the house; it’s about a sort of cosmic fairness that has never existed, and how we might feel justified in tipping the scales in our favour after seeing the unscrupulous get rewarded again and again.