The Globe and Mail

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Intermission Magazine

Slick political dramedy The Master Plan is Crow’s Theatre at its best (* Runner-up for 2023 Nathan Cohen Award for Outstanding Review)

Age Is a Feeling aches with tenderness and love

Yes, The Wild Rovers is that bad

Appropriate is a masterclass in controlled chaos at Coal Mine Theatre

Postmedia

In Get That Hope, playwright Andrea Scott complicates the history of Little Jamaica

Salesman in China is storytelling magic

The Globe and Mail

For my most up-to-date reporting and criticism, please consult The Globe and Mail.

The New York Times

Hit Play About U.S. Constitution Debuts in Canada. Amended, of Course.

CP24/CTV News Toronto

Kat Sandler's Wildwoman kicks off Her Words Festival at Soulpepper

Sébastien Heins uses video games to explore Huntington’s disease

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

Toronto Star

A slam poet finds his theatrical voice in As I Must Live It at Theatre Passe Muraille

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

Come From Away comes home to Newfoundland

How Paula Vogel’s Indecent remembers a century of dramatic censorship

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

Intermission Magazine

King James brings basketball — and bromance — to Theatre Aquarius

For the leadership at Crow’s Theatre, investing in local talent is crucial

How Cliff Cardinal found his inner rock star

Spotlight: Yvette Nolan

Stratford Beacon Herald

Cymbeline: Bending genres and offering a new challenge for Festival mainstay Lucy Peacock

Twelfth Night: A cast of soothsaying fools

CBC Arts

This stage actor left Canada because of its 'glass ceiling.' Now she's back to break through it.

In 1939, Shakespeare pays a visit to a fictional residential school

In a banner year for Hamlet, 3 South Asian actors take the lead

Toronto Star

Here’s what Anna Marie Tendler has to say about her ex John Mulaney in her new memoir. Hint: It’s not what you think

Colleen Hoover tells us how she really feels about the film version of her bestselling novel It Ends with Us

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

Maisie Peters scores summer hit with song about falling for a ‘Canadian king’

He's a dad, a TV star and a sneakerhead: Andrew Phung of Run the Burbs

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

YouTube megastar Daniel Howell reflects on a life online

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

NEXT Magazine

Snotty Nose Rez Kids demand a Red Future

Logan Staats could be Canada’s newest country prodigy

LOONY’s musical leap of faith (cover story)

Ottawa Citizen

How Ottawa's "Cucumber Boy" became the star of TikTok

The Globe and Mail

Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl is fizzy, earwormy and, well, not great

Exclaim!

Lizzy McAlpine Is a Little Bit Older, a Little Bit Wiser

Toronto Star

On Hit Me Hard and Soft, Billie Eilish boasts a new-found maturity

Taylor Swift drops surprise double album with The Tortured Poets Department — a 31-track odyssey through heartbreak

Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish — ‘girlhood’ rules the 2024 Grammys. Here’s why it matters

Taylor Swift’s Midnights sparkles with self-reflection and synth

NEXT Magazine

Review: Lizzy McAlpine closes North American leg of the Older tour with a quiet fury

Gracie Abrams demonstrates sharpened songwriting skills

Noah Kahan turns concert-going into a spiritual experience at his first of three Toronto shows

CP24/CTV News Toronto

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

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

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

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

Toronto Star

Some Toronto theatres have been duped by AI-generated reviews. What role will they play in arts marketing moving forward?

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

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

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

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

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

Memoir

We Hired an AI Theatre Critic (runner-up for 2023 Nathan Cohen Award for Outstanding Critical Essay)

Remembering Towson teacher Matthew Jochmans

Some say arts criticism is dead. I spent two weeks at summer camp for theatre critics — here’s why I’ve never felt more optimistic

Why do election polls go wrong? I found out one reason when I polled Americans for CNN in 2016

The Beach Boys, Charles Manson and my dad: a Father’s Day story

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

Book Reviews

Look Ma, No Hands is a celebration of writing and a sensitive exploration of chronic pain

In her debut novel, theatre artist Erin Brubacher explores the hope and heartbreak of creating a child

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