Now in Our Fifteenth Year

January 2012 - This Month

East meets West: High tech meets high drama as a Canadian in Shanghai has his life turned upside down in Robert LePage's, The Blue Dragon.

Survivors: In Red Snow, two lovers struggle to reconcile the past with the present as they recall the memory of a tragic event in World War II.

Fringe Benefits: The Next Stage Festival gives theatre fans a jolt of summer in the dead of winter.

Changing Worlds: The award-winning musical Caroline, or Change is the story of ordinary people facing extraordinary change.

Murder, she said: A woman finds herself caught in a web of corruption, lust, betrayal and murder in the Canadian Opera Company's production of Tosca.

Dance: Artists from Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Berlin come together in a concert of duets in the TwoByFour Festival.

Banner Photo Credits: L to R: Cirque du Soleil's The Green Bird from Nouba; Deborah Hay as Eliza Dolittle in the Shaw Festival production of My Fair Lady. Photo by Emily Cooper; Jack Rennie and Marie McDonnough in Opera Atelier's Armide. Photo by Bruce Zinger; Gareth Potter as Hosanna in the Stratford Festival Production. Photo by Andrew Eccles.

Openings: Jan. 23 to Jan. 30, 2012. All in the Timing at the Campbell House Museum; A Brimful of Asha at the Tarragon Theatre Extra Space; Caroline, or Change at the Berkeley St. Theatre; Cruel and Tender at the Bluma Appel Theatre; Hamlet Live at the Annex Theatre; KAAL-TIME at the Fleck Dance Theatre; No Exit at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace; Penny Plain at the Factory Theatre Mainspace; The 24th Annual International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre; Hippolytos at the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre at York University. See Previews.
Photo: by John Lambert, from Ronnie Burkett's Penny Plain at the Factory Theatre Mainspace.

Recent Reviews: Caroline or Change at the Berkeley St. Theatre; The Penelopiad at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre; American Idiot at the Toronto Centre for the Arts; Hair at the Royal Alexandra Theatre; Parfumerie at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts: The Wizard of Oz at the Elgin Theatre;The Children's Republic at the Tarragon Theatre Mainsapce; Mary Poppins at the Princess of Wales Theatre;2 Pianos 4 Hands at the Panasonic Theatre; Ric Wellwood reviews Ed's Garage at the Grand Theatre, London, Ontario; See Reviews.