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REVIEW: Obsidian and Tarragon co-production reflects on the inadequacy of language

"a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun): the title says it all, offering a definition for an absent word. The thing is the thing unsaid."

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Review: Delicate Tarragon drama unpacks language's inadequacy
'a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)': the title says it all, offering a definition for an absent word.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Narnia completes trilogy of musicals championing a child’s-eye view of life

"What emerged for us was this idea of life cycles,” reflects adaptor-director Fiona Sauder. “‘[What things] have to die and fall away in order for new things to grow?’”

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Bad Hats' 'Narnia' completes trilogy of family-friendly musicals
"'[What things] have to die and fall away in order for new things to grow?’" wonders 'Narnia' adaptor-director Fiona Sauder.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
REVIEW: With equal parts joy and indignation, The Christmas Market shines a light on migrant labour

"Delicately balanced with humour and emotionally charged dialogue, The Christmas Market is vibrant and moving, bottled up like lightning in 90 minutes."

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Review: 'The Christmas Market' shines a light on migrant labour
Among softly falling snowflakes, dense rum cake, and a tree that twirls of its own accord, 'The Christmas Market' unfolds.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
REVIEW: Theatre Gargantua’s Dissonant Species features live science experiments and impressive visual storytelling

"For the first half of the show, you can’t help but focus on director Jacquie P.A. Thomas' thoughtful scenic choices."

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Review: 'Dissonant Species' features impressive visual storytelling
For the first half of the show, you can’t help but focus on director Jacquie P.A. Thomas' thoughtful scenic choices.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
For composer Njo Kong Kie 楊光奇, the word ‘artist’ is a complicated label.

Intermission staff writer Nathaniel Hanula-James sits down with the Dora Award–winning composer to trace a career that’s moved fluidly between opera, theatre, and dance.

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For composer Njo Kong Kie, the word ‘artist’ is a complicated label
Dora Award–winning composer Njo Kong Kie 楊光奇 on redefining what makes someone an “artist” — and why the label still feels complicated.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
REVIEW: Jessica B. Hill’s Pandora thinks outside the box at Stratford’s Here For Now Theatre

"Weave Pandora's disparate elements together and a story emerges that is equal parts moving and fascinating."

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Review: Jessica B. Hill’s 'Pandora' thinks outside the box
At face value, 'Pandora' resembles random chaos. But weave its parts together and a story emerges that is equal parts moving and fascinating.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
REVIEW: Soulpepper’s The Comeuppance unpacks high-school reunions with deadly, millennial-aged precision

"Macabre and drama-filled, The Comeuppance will probably be most compelling to the around-40 crowd who share its specific touchstones."

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'The Comeuppance' unpacks high-school reunions with precision
Macabre and drama-filled yet surprisingly gentle, 'The Comeuppance' will probably be most compelling to the around-40 crowd.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
REVIEW: TfT delivers humour and cruelty in striking rendition of Camus’ Le Malentendu

"Director Karine Ricard banishes all earthly joy from the scene, leaving behind an almost lunar coldness."

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Review: TfT delivers funny and striking rendition of 'Le Malentendu'
In this staging of 'Le Malentendu,' director Karine Ricard banishes all earthly joy from the scene, leaving behind an almost lunar coldness.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Tara Beagan wins 2025 Governor General’s Award for drama
Her multilingual play 'Rise, Red River' connects environmental devastation with the intergenerational impacts of colonial violence.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
REVIEW: The Far Side of the Moon is insomniac theatre

"The Far Side of the Moon begins and ends with a large mirror on stage, and it extracts enigmatic power from the tantalizing question of whether Philippe is losing himself in his reflection, or moving toward self-discovery."

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Review: Lepage’s 'The Far Side of the Moon' is insomniac theatre
The Far Side of the Moon begins and ends with a large mirror on stage, and the show uses it to raise tantalizingly enigmatic questions.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
REVIEW: National Ballet’s Procession tangles the lines of sorrow and sensuality

"Procession, the National Ballet of Canada’s brooding and stylized world premiere ballet, rushes to the stage with startling vitality — and does so at a funeral."

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Review: National Ballet's 'Procession' blurs sorrow and sensuality
'Procession,' the National Ballet of Canada’s brooding and stylized world premiere ballet, rushes to the stage with startling vitality.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
REVIEW: Tarragon’s CHILD-ish takes a hopeful and hilarious look at life through kids’ eyes

"It’s a giggly good time, if a pinch oversweet."

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Review: 'CHILD-ish' takes a hilarious look at life through kids’ eyes
Making its Toronto premiere in the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace, Sunny Drake's 'CHILD-ish' is a giggly good time, if a pinch oversweet.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
REVIEW: At Ottawa’s GCTC, you won’t expect what happens when Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre

"Sarah Kitz’s production leans into the play’s real strength: its exploration of narrative."

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Many layers to GCTC's 'Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre'
Sarah Kitz’s Great Canadian Theatre Company production leans into the play’s real strength: its exploration of narrative.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
REVIEW: Talk is Free Theatre’s Blackbird offers a close-up look at two detailed performances

"Director Dean Deffett has concocted a tight, straightforward production, primarily of interest as an intimate character study."

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Review: 'Blackbird' offers a close-up look at detailed performances
Emerging director Dean Deffett has concocted a tight, straightforward production, primarily of interest as an intimate character study.
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October 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
REVIEW: Garner Theatre Productions’ Bright Star coasts on charm and likability

"Co-writer Steve Martin’s wit, which blazes in plays like Picasso at the Lapin Agile, merely twinkles here."

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Review: 'Bright Star' coasts on charm and likability at Mirvish
Co-writer Steve Martin’s wit, which blazes in plays like 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile,' merely twinkles here.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
REVIEW: Kitchener’s biennial IMPACT Festival crackled with urgency

"Most of the six works I viewed tackled urgent topics, from the convoluted Canadian immigration system to the Palestinian experience of displacement."

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REVIEW: Kitchener’s biennial IMPACT Festival sparks with urgency
Most of the six works I viewed tackled urgent topics, from the Canadian immigration system to the Palestinian experience of displacement.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
REVIEW: 'This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear' takes a timid look at living through times of crisis

Writer-performer David Gagnon Walker’s production puts a mythical spin on anxiety, loneliness, and the precarity of the present.

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REVIEW: 'This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear'
Writer-performer David Gagnon Walker’s production puts a mythical spin on anxiety, loneliness, and the precarity of the present.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
REVIEW: Slave Play sparks debate — so we reviewed it twice

"To mark the Canadian premiere of this influential satire, Intermission is honouring the play’s divisive reputation by presenting a pair of reviews written independently of one another."

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Review: 'Slave Play' sparks debate — so we reviewed it twice
Intermission is honouring the play’s divisive reputation by presenting a pair of reviews written independently of one another.
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October 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
REVIEW: Amy Lane's campy Roméo et Juliette wears its heart on its sleeve at the COC

"The opera is so grand, and Gounod’s music so august, that I was surprised to find an image as simple as the pair peacefully spooning in bed struck a sympathetic chord with me."

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Review: COC's 'Roméo et Juliette' wears its heart on its sleeve
I was surprised to find an image as simple as the pair peacefully spooning in bed struck a sympathetic chord with me.
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October 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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“There’s a venn diagram [in which] wolf displacement across Canada matches Indigenous displacement.”
Playwright Colin Wolf talks to Intermission Magazine about the complexities of resistance explored in his new hopepunk thriller, CoyWolf: www.intermissionmagazine.ca/features/coy...
'CoyWolf' ponders the meaning of resistance
“There’s a venn diagram [in which] wolf displacement across Canada matches Indigenous displacement,” playwright Colin Wolf.
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October 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
REVIEW: Alan Doyle steers a joyful ship in Tell Tale Harbour at Mirvish

"The musical makes good on spinning a yarn as warm as a mug-up with music as catchy as a fiddle reel. The asides are wry, the slapstick is generous, and the hearts are big."

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Review: Alan Doyle steers a joyful ship in 'Tell Tale Harbour'
'Tell Tale Harbour' at Mirvish makes good on spinning a yarn as warm as a mug-up with music as catchy as a fiddle reel.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
REVIEW: Shifting Ground Collective delivers heartfelt, overloaded Ride the Cyclone

"Director 郝邦宇 Steven Hao hits the carnival bullseye when it comes to heart and fun, but misses the top prize by expanding the cast and reducing the original’s creepiness."

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Review: Shifting Ground's Ride the Cyclone is heartfelt, overloaded
Director 郝邦宇 Steven Hao hits the carnival bullseye when it comes to heart and fun, but just misses the top prize by expanding the cast.
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September 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
REVIEW: Coal Mine Theatre’s Waiting for Godot is lucid and unpretentious

"Directed by Kelli Fox, this Waiting for Godot embraces the bodily sensibilities of Beckett’s dark humour, grounding his abstract poetics in the kidneys, the feet, and the dirt."

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Review: Coal Mine's 'Waiting for Godot' is lucid and unpretentious
This production of Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' embraces the bodily sensibilities of Beckett’s dark humour.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
REVIEW: The Veil brings stripped-down psychological thrills to the Crow’s Theatre Studio

"Director Helen Juvonen’s subtle, atmospheric production makes for an unnerving horror theatre experience."

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Review: 'The Veil' offers stripped-down psychological thrills
Director Helen Juvonen’s subtle, atmospheric production makes for an unnerving horror theatre experience.
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September 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
REVIEW: Dave Malloy’s Octet vibrates with sublime vocal beauty at Crow’s Theatre

"Malloy’s intricate a cappella compositions, rich with complex harmonies, are the hymns and confessionals in a show about a support group for internet addiction."

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Review: 'Octet' vibrates with sublime vocal beauty at Crow's
Dave Malloy’s intricate a cappella compositions are the hymns and confessionals in a show about a support group for internet addiction.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM