CHILD-ISH: Effervescence

CHILD-ISH: Effervescence

I love this show, everything about it. And I strongly encourage you to see it. For CHILD-ish, Toronto playwright Sunny Drake interviewed 41 kids over a period of years. He also invited the kids to interview one another. And they interviewed him. The result is an...
EVERY BRILLIANT THING: Some Assembly Required

EVERY BRILLIANT THING: Some Assembly Required

  It’s fun. It’s moving sometimes. There something essentially theatrical about it. And I suspect we’re in particular need of it right now.   Every Brilliant Thing is a one-actor show that was developed by playwright Duncan Macmillan and stand-up comedian...
JULIET: A REVENGE COMEDY — Got Me

JULIET: A REVENGE COMEDY — Got Me

By the end of Juliet, A Revenge Comedy, I was completely into it.   In the script, which was written by Ryan Gladstone and Pippa Mackie, Juliet from Romeo and Juliet finds herself in a kind of Shakespearean Groundhog Day: she keeps falling in love, losing her...
CHOIR BOY: But Not Story Boy

CHOIR BOY: But Not Story Boy

The music is sublime. Sublime. But, especially as it’s presented in this production, the script is not. When Choir Boy started, with Andrew Broderick, who plays the central character, Pharus, singing a cappella, and then, when he was joined, in perfect harmony, by...