NOW IN OUR TWELFTH YEAR

July 2009 - This Month

Fringing Around: This year's Toronto Fringe Festival offers 150 productions to add some sizzle to the summer. See Theatre World

Hard Lessons: Based on the 1972 film that launched Jimmy Cliff and reggae music onto the world stage, The Harder They Come is a cautionary tale about following your dream too far

Musical Chairs: The Shaw Festival's salute to Noel Coward continues with Play, Orchestra, Play.

Banner photo credits: L to R: Cirque du Soleil's The Green Bird from Nouba; Yanna McIntosh and Geraint Wyn Davies in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the 2009 Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Photo by David Hou; Deborah Hay in Born Yesterday at the 2009 Shaw Festival, Photo by Shin Sugino; Amy Wallis in Anne of Green Gables The Musical™ at the Elgin Theatre, May, 2009, and at the 2009 Charlottetown Festival. Photo by Louise Vessey.

Dora Mavor Moore winners announced! See Spotlight

Toronto Openings: Week of June 29, 2009. The Toronto Fringe Festival at various venues. See Theatre World; The Tempest at The Dream in High Park; Out of Town: The Right Road to Pontypool at Winslow Farm in Millbrook. See Previews

Recent Toronto theatre Reviews: See Reviews.

The Shaw Festival Recent Reviews: Brief Encounters; Born Yesterday, A Moon for the Misbegotten; Sunday in the Park with George; In Good King Charles' Golden Days. See Shaw.

The Stratford Festival: Reviews: Macbeth; Julius Caesar; The Three Sisters; The Importance of Being Earnest; West Side Story; Bartholomew Fair; Cyrano de Bergerac. See Stratford.

Photo; by David Hou. Brian Bedford in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Stratford Festival.