Mitchell Cushman

At Next Stage 2024, two shows complicate the meaning of a night out

Gemini, by Louise Casemore, and Prude, by Lou Campbell, explore the hospitality industry and bar culture from different perspectives.

REVIEW: A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney ‘cuts to’ the core of the man behind the mouse

Soulpepper and Outside the March effectively drown Uncle Walt’s highly manicured public image in acetone, leaving the audience with a grotesque portrait that feels at once comically exaggerated and painfully accurate.

For Lessons in Temperament’s James Smith, pianos are partners in vulnerability

“The act of tuning… allows me to find a good balance in terms of how deep I go into certain stories,” says Lessons in Temperament creator James Smith.