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Jordan Tannahill digs up buried emotions in Post Eden, a fantastical documentary-style "live film" now playing at the Next Stage Theatre Festival.

In a bar on the second floor of Toronto's Factory Theatre, two well-dressed men are providing music for an intimate audience—one playing a keyboard and the other keeping time on a chunk of wood. All of a sudden, the music comes to a standstill and the keyboard player, a fedora atop his head,...

As human beings, it is natural to be curious about our genetic makeup, and who our ancestors were. After all, our background is what has shaped us into the person we are today, or so one young woman believes—the young protagonist of...

The new year is looking exceptionally bright for Toronto-based theatre artist Bahia Watson.

Hurt runs deep in Expect Theatre/Spark Collective's 2011 Fringe hit Awake, a riveting play about victims of gun violence in Toronto's Jamestown neigbourhood, now playing at the Next Stage Theatre...

At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna was the centre of Art Nouveau, a cultural hub where passion and romance abounded. Out of this colourful environment came Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler’s Anatol, written in 1893, which follows the misadventures of a handsome Viennese...

At once bitterly funny and devastatingly tragic, Kristen Thomson's Someone Else cuts deep under the skin. Directed by Crow's Theatre artistic director Chris Abraham, the dark comedy about a...

Of the many legends to come out of English folklore, no tale is more popular than that of Robin Hood, a 13th-century hero and outlaw. The character may only be a caricature of the outlaws that lived at the time, but throughout the centuries, there never seems to be a shortage of Robin Hood...

When L. Frank Baum penned his children’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in 1900, he could never have imagined its lasting power. Unfortunately, Baum did not live to see MGM’s 1939 cinematic adaptation, which brought the fairytale to life through the use of both music and Technicolor...

As the old Proverb states, “There are two sides to every coin." One of the most famous ancient Greek poems, Homer's The Odyssey, is well known for its hero Odysseus, who spends 20 years away from his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, fighting in the Trojan War. Penelope is faithful...