Author name: Shamaila Anjum

It may seem strange to praise a show for making me say “I hate Humanity” at the end, yet this is exactly the case for the TCDS’s 2016 production of Cabaret. Cabaret was originally a musical based on Jon Van Druten’s 1951 play I am a Camera, and was later adapted as a film in 1972. […]

St. Michael’s Troubadours performed Evita, a musical by Tim Rice (music) and Andrew Lloyd Weber (lyrics), at Hart House this past weekend, with director Jeffrey Kennes and producer David Carcasole. The musical focuses on the ascension of historical figure Eva Perón (Madeline Foley), the wife of the Argentinian President Juan Perón (Daniel Newton), who won

The program for the VCDS’s 2016 God of Carnage has the following note from director Ben Murchison: “In order to further showcase this play’s [sic] thematic elements, I decided to convert the entire Cat’s Eye into the Novak’s loft.” Had I read this before entering the Cat’s Eye, I would have been saved from a rather

Friday, November 27 marked the opening night of the 143rd production of The Bob at the Isabel Bader Theatre, which runs out of Victoria College and is one of Canada’s longest-running comedy sketches. Some of the University of Toronto’s most famous alumni, including Margaret Atwood and Lester B. Pearson, have performed in the student production.

Taking on Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a daunting task for any director or actor, with its iconic speeches, its multiple theatrical interpretations, and its largely passive titular character. Any production of Hamlet is expected to interpret text in a new way while staying faithful to the original. Hart House’s 2015 offering does relatively well with the

Written in 1961 by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Physicists is set in a wing of a heavily endowed asylum. In this wing are three patients who believe themselves to be physicists: Albert Einstein (James Hyett), Isaac Newton (Mertol Özaltan), and Möbius (Jacob Nathaniel Levitt). The play follows the aftermath of a nurse’s murder at the hands of