Intermission Magazine

Appropriate at Coal Mine Theatre (2023)

The Master Plan at Crow's Theatre (2023)

Come From Away in Gander, NL (2023)

Hadestown at Mirvish Productions (2023)

Casey and Diana at the Stratford Festival (2023)

Maggie at Theatre Aquarius (2023)

Maanomaa, My Brother at Canadian Stage (2023)

Fall on Your Knees at Canadian Stage (2023)

Uncle Vanya at Crow's Theatre (2022)

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Mirvish Productions (2022)

Wildfire at Factory Theatre (2022)

ROOM at Mirvish Productions (2022)

Toronto Star

Cliff Cardinal is a master of emotional manipulation in ‘The Land Acknowledgement, or As You Like It’ (2023)

‘Fairview’ at Canadian Stage asks white audiences to consider an alternate point of view (2023)

How do you solve a problem like ‘Rock of Ages’? You can’t, but flashy lights and great performances don’t hurt (2023)

‘Hamilton’ is back in Toronto and it really is that good (2023)

Crow’s Theatre’s ‘Fifteen Dogs’ is a must-see, even for cat people (2023)

Bad Hats Theatre’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is a love letter to childhood (2022)

‘The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale’ at Soulpepper is as good as its title and just as charming (2022)

‘Indecent’ confronts the history of Jewish theatre with style and verve (2022)

Child-army play ‘The First Stone’ combines the best of theatrical tradition with the worst of human obscenity (2022)

Toronto Star

Gracie Abrams’ searing songwriting is what led her to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour (2023)

How ‘The Office’ alum Anthony Q. Farrell made a TV show about a Parkdale library (2023)

Downton Abbey’s Kevin Doyle never thought he’d be an actor. Now he’s Mirvish’s leading man (2023)

For ‘Q’ host Tom Power, the reward is in ‘just chatting’ with the celebrities he interviews (2023)

Taylor Swift reflects on her journey to filmmaking at TIFF 2022 (2022)

‘We laugh a lot on set’: Andrew Phung and Rakhee Morzaria on running the ’burbs for a second season (2022)

For Ann-Marie MacDonald, a ‘Fall on Your Knees’ theatrical adaptation was inevitable (2022)

Yes, ‘Friends’ is important to Matthew Perry, but he wants to be remembered for his sobriety and helping other people (2022)

YouTube megastar Daniel Howell reflects on a life online (2022)

‘We don’t wear heels in the Arctic’: How Inuit model Willow Allen uses TikTok to showcase life in the north (2022)

Sarah Gadon announces stage debut in ‘Yerma’ (2022)

Eric Peterson’s a TV star, but theatre acting is his favourite (2022)

How Cynthia Dale spends a typical Sunday (2022)

Shayla Brown, of Women Talking acclaim, makes her Toronto stage debut (2022)

Maisie Peters scores summer hit with song about falling for ‘Canadian king’ (2022)

CP24/CTV News Toronto

Kat Sandler's ‘Wildwoman’ kicks off Her Words Festival at Soulpepper (2023)

One-woman show in Toronto traces the life journey of trans actress Sandra Caldwell (2023)

Jamie Robinson returns to High Park with re-imagined ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (2023)

Sébastien Heins uses video games to explore Huntington’s disease (2023)

How this Ukrainian-Métis Toronto couple is using theatre to tell their improbable love story (2023)

Toronto Star

Inside the cool — and the cringe — of Toronto’s sold-out Broadway ‘rave’ (2023)

In debut film ‘Adult Adoption,’ Toronto playwright Ellie Moon spreads her wings (2023)

For Jani and Craig Lauzon, ‘Where the Blood Mixes’ is a love letter to residential school survivors (2022)

‘The show must go on’ for Coal Mine Theatre's leadership team despite damage from fire (2022)

How Disney Animation is using its Toronto immersive experience to ‘keep moving forward’ (2022)

‘Come From Away’ comes home to Newfoundland (2022)

Jac Yarrow is living the dream as star of ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ (2022)

From Toronto’s street dance scene to Broadway, Bobby ‘Pocket’ Horner is making a splash (2022)

How do you translate Shakespeare into Mohawk? Ask Stratford Festival artist Wahsontí:io Kirby (2022)

How Paula Vogel’s ‘Indecent’ remembers a century of dramatic censorship (2022)

From Toronto stages to the ‘Interview With the Vampire’ writers’ room, playwright Hannah Moscovitch is having a moment (2022)

‘It’s been the greatest adventure of my life’: Panto legend Ross Petty says farewell (2022)

Intermission Magazine

Theatre Aquarius leads Canadian theatre into a new era with National Centre for New Musicals (2023)

Making Theatrical Ghee: In Conversation with Philip Akin and Aldrin Bundoc (2023)

Spotlight: Yvette Nolan (2023)

Rehearsals and Raptors Games: In Dialogue with Pipeline’s Akosua Amo-Adem and Tony Ofori (2022)

When the Playwright Goes Prose: In Conversation with Haley McGee (2022)

When the Playwright Goes Prose: In Conversation with Jordan Tannahill (2021)

CP24/CTV News Toronto

'This is horrifying': How a pro-suicide forum encourages sodium nitrite use in Canada, U.K. (2023)

Liberal MP was warned about controversial pro-suicide forum years before Kenneth Law’s arrest: source (2023)

Mississauga man accused of mailing sodium nitrite also allegedly sold gas masks, tubing (2023)

Amidst Kenneth Law, sodium nitrite investigations, wellness checks are on the rise: sources (2023)

Toronto Star

Backstage burnout in Toronto theatre was always a thing — post-pandemic it’s gotten worse (2023)

Whitby spa warned pool facilities weren't safe to open, claims $5M lawsuit (2022)

New luxury GTA spa closes all pools after customers report staph infections (2022)

Woman's family pleads for help after she drowns in Ontario pool while livestreaming on Facebook (2022)

Luminato Festival abruptly cancelled an exhibit by an Indigenous collective. Here’s the story behind the controversial decision (2022)

Memoir

We Hired an AI Theatre Critic (2023)

Sarah Kane Made Me Want to Be a Theatre Critic. I Am One. Now What? (2023)

I learned how to do a stunt flip on a movie set in Burlington (2022)

Sarah Kane’s Been Dead For 23 Years. I Still Don’t Know How to Thank Her. (2022)

How to Return Home: Dear Evan Hansen at TIFF (2021)

Microdosing Normalcy: The Bittersweet Return Home to Hadestown on Broadway (2021)

How to Return Home: Blindness by Simon Stephens (2021)

Two letters to Sarah Kane on the anniversary of her death (2021)

Murphy: On falling in and out of love with theatre (2021)

A love letter to my first arts journalism job (2021)

‘This is what we needed’: 13 U of O Swifties reflect on a difficult year (2021)

A pandemic letter to my year-ago self (2021)

Get ready with me: Digital uOShow edition (2020)

The unexpected role an Ottawa call centre played in the 2016 U.S. election (2020)

Some thoughts on the first debate from an American student stuck in Canada (2020)

TikTok and eating disorders: why I’m taking a break from my favourite time-waster (2020)

Music Reviews

U.S. Girls, Skrillex, Wednesday, Gracie Abrams, and more music you need to hear this weekend (2023)

Depeche Mode return with vintage goth-pop single, plus new music from Maddy Hicks, Lovejoy, Linkin Park and more (2023)

Rosalía, Yaeji, City and Colour, Maisie Peters and more tracks you need to hear this weekend (2023)

New music from beabadoobee, Lana Del Rey, Daughter, Kelela and more (2023)

Star Tracks: Our 24 favourite albums of 2022 (2022)

Star Tracks Wrapped: Highlights and surprising standouts from this year in music (2022)

Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ sparkles with self-reflection and synth (2022)

fulc-lore revisited: Taylor Swift’s long pond sessions (2020)

Film Reviews

In Apple TV+’s Come From Away, we are all islanders (2021)

Inside the whimsical kitsch of The Last Blockbuster (2021)

Book Reviews

Don’t trust the media? These six books take us behind the curtain to show how good journalists work (2023)

Review: Solutions and Other Problems (2020)