Five reasons to check out Chekhov
This week the 13th Master Playwright Festival kicks off with an all-you-can-eat buffet of Russian playwright, author and census taker Anton Chekhov. Read More
Theatre review: Jane Eyre
Most theatre adaptations of sprawling costume epics shoot themselves in the foot, with scripts sunk by characters cramming in narration of offstage events and historical context. Read More
MTC celebration of founder worth celebrating
Hirsch is one of those soul-recharging nights that can happen anywhere but should happen, this play argues, every time you go to a theatre. Read More
Theatre review: Social Studies
On opening night PTE set aside a number of tickets for the Immigrant and Refugee Centre of Manitoba. The first crowd to take in Trish Cooper’s “comedy of assumptions in River Heights” not only skewed younger, but more diverse than usual. Read More
Not a leg to stand on
Theatre review of A Christmas Story: "This show is fantastically, thoroughly and irresistibly boring." Read More
Lion in the Streets review
Soul-crushing encounters such as a wife's public attempt to seduce her adulterous husband and a man jacking off while forcing his fiance to relive a rape are cranked to Shakespearean heights. Read More
Theatre review: Venus in Fur
The crowd was happy to submit to this middle-class-porn meets womyn’s studies thesis. Read More
Review: The Best Brothers
Down the street at RMTC another gentle comedy is playing. But The Best Brothers is better – tighter, sharper, closer, wiser and funnier. Read More
Review: Mary Chase’s Harvey
Mary Chase’s gentle post-war comedy about a bromance with an invisible, six-foot-tall rabbit has enough golden moments of human connection and slapstick successes you can overlook its weaker sections. Read More
Review: Haunter’s Rivers & Rust
Rivers and Rust screams Prairie album, with the sights, sounds and experiences of a band familiar with the heart of the continent built into the songs. Read More
Cancer, comfort, and a concerto that sings the journey
When composer Vincent Ho learned a friend was dying of cancer, he composed a piece that calls for healing. Read More
Up in the air
Dazzling feats and spectacular crashes: life's a circus in the heart of Winnipeg's West Broadway neighbourhood Read More