theatre

I started a drag camp for kids. Soon I was receiving thousands of hateful messages

“We told our campers what we were up against. They said it wasn’t their first time dealing with bullies.”

The festival purchased its very own woodlot in Tobermory to mill birch slats for the stage. (Photography by doublespace photography)

Inside the Stratford Festival’s $72-million theatre makeover

This summer—after years of delays—the show will finally go on at Stratford’s immaculately redesigned Tom Patterson Theatre

Kevin Loring in conversation with Paul Wells: Maclean’s Live

The award-winning playwright, actor and inaugural artistic director of Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre sat down with senior writer Paul Wells

Day One of the Cursed Child: Harry Potter and his magic are back!

J.K. Rowling unleashes a play on a fan base hungry for more Hogwarts

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The Mikado’s punishment doesn’t fit the crime

Outrage finally descends on Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular Orientalist operetta.

The Thrill: Pop-culture lessons, and reviving the theatre

On this week’s pop-culture podcast: what we’ve learned from pop culture, and the Stratford Festival’s plan to engage the young

The vindication of CanStage’s Matthew Jocelyn

After facing snarky reviews and fleeing audiences, one of our most controversial artistic directors breaks through

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Gregory James Kramer

He was a magician and a musician, but theatre was his first love

An articulate horse who doesn’t talk

The secret behind the realism of ‘War Horse’

There’s nothing whimsical or cute about the star

The Shaw Festival, with a little less

The Shaw Festival, with a little less Shaw

Audiences aren’t quite so enamoured these days of the once celebrated playwright

The first recording of William Tell in 20 years

The first recording of William Tell in 20 years

Hardly anyone has heard the whole opera—well, except for the ‘Lone Ranger’ bit.