Luminato
For top cultural jobs, Canadians need not apply
Many of Canada’s biggest arts institutions are now run by foreigners. Is that so bad?
Scotland’s kings get the Shakespeare treatment
Rona Munro’s James cycle of plays explores Scottish history with wit and drama at Toronto’s Luminato Festival
The flying freak flags of David Byrne’s Contemporary Color
With famous artists in tow, did the iconoclastic Byrne succeed in introducing colour guard to the urban masses at Toronto’s Luminato Festival?
Two friends’ A.V.-club ode to loners and lost souls
Using projections and finger-plucked folk songs, Shary Boyle and Christine Fellows’s project is a tribute to childhood and friendship
Calvin Trillin and Adam Gopnik on Canadian comestibles
The two writers talked bagels, smoked meat and ice wine while delighting a crowd of food lovers
Rufus, are you googling yourself now?
Rufus Wainwright takes on his critics from the concert stage
Not Being John Malkovich
A creepy, crowd-pleasing serial killer kicks off Luminato
Live cinema, epic theatre
Exercises in exhilaration, from a warehouse happening to Robert Lepage’s nine-hour ‘Lipsynch’,
Trekking through a bold new opera
In ‘The Children’s Crusade,’ the audience will take its own voyage in a desolate landscape