👤 Joshua Chong

2026-11-01 · Toronto Star · Entertainment

Mirvish's wildly entertaining ‘Operation Mincemeat’ is one of the best musicals since ‘Hamilton’

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2026-10-24 · Toronto Star · Entertainment

I was reviewing this cockamamie comedy, then was pulled into the action. Here's what unfolded next

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2026-10-16 · Toronto Star · Entertainment

A new musical about the Canadian racehorse ‘Dancer’ takes a big gamble with mixed results

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2026-10-15 · Toronto Star · Entertainment

‘A Fine Balance’ broke records at Crow's Theatre. Now, it's getting another life

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2026-10-14 · Toronto Star · Entertainment

Two Canadian stars will return to the Stratford Festival for the 2027 season

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2026-10-03 · Toronto Star · Education

Toronto's most prestigious choral school opens third-party review after turmoil and multiple departures

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2026-09-19 · Toronto Star

🔮 This remount production will be conducted by Italian maestro Paolo Carignani and features a rotating cast, led by American soprano Kathryn Lewek and Canadian Andriana Chuchman, sharing the role of Violetta Valéry. assertive

2026-09-22 · Toronto Star

🔮 Toronto operagoers have been treated to a pair of mighty performances in two Verdi workhorses this year. assertive

2026-09-23 · Toronto Star

🔮 Jonathan Church will break with tradition when he begins his first season as artistic director of the Stratford Festival next year. assertive

2026-09-26 · Toronto Star

🔮 Whereas most bio-musicals try to cram an artist’s entire life story into two hours and some change, Keys’ semi-autobiographical work takes what, in those musicals, would be a single scene early in Act 1 and expands it into a full-fledged show — one that’s equal parts a coming-of-age family drama and also an interrogation of one musician’s artistic awakening. assertive

2026-10-02 · Toronto Star

🔮 After a crushing, eleventh-hour twist that reframes Sutter’s narrative, I could sense O’Hara struggling to find a natural conclusion to his story. assertive

2026-10-03 · Toronto Star

🔮 At St. Michael’s Choir School, a semi-private institution in downtown Toronto with fewer than 300 students, a typical parent council meeting may draw 15 to 20 attendees. assertive

2026-10-14 · Toronto Star

🔮 Canadian stars Chilina Kennedy and Stephen Ouimette will return to the Stratford Festival for the company's 2027 season, the first under new artistic director Jonathan Church. assertive

2026-10-15 · Toronto Star

🔮 “A Fine Balance,” a new stage adaptation of the acclaimed Rohinton Mistry novel of the same name, will transfer to Soulpepper for a second run beginning in January. assertive

2026-10-17 · Toronto Star

🔮 It’s a show told primarily through contemporary dance, with a main character who neither speaks nor sings and requiring a cast so large that even Cameron Mackintosh would likely shudder. assertive

2026-10-24 · Toronto Star

🔮 Doing so would only spoil some of the cockamamie tomfoolery that’s in Veronica Hortigüela and Annie Lujàn’s “Monks,” the hit clown comedy from the 2024 Toronto Fringe Festival that’s now reincarnated at Tarragon Theatre’s Extraspace. assertive

2026-11-01 · Toronto Star

🔮 After “Hamilton” opened on Broadway in 2015, one question dominated the cultural conversation: Would Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop phenomenon change the genre of musical theatre? assertive