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Karen Fricker

Karen Fricker

Theatre Critic at Toronto Star Online

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“One of the greatest theatre artists this country has ever had”: Friends and colleagues remember ...

Christopher Newton, who established Theatre Calgary and was at the helm of the Shaw Festival for over two decades, died on Dec. 20 at age 85
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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre loses managing director, bar manager, ...

Shawn Daudlin, Buddies’ managing director of 13 years, confirmed his resignation on Facebook.
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How Branden Jacobs-Jenkins got from Alice Munro stories to his ‘fea...

The American playwright and Canadian director André Sills on bringing “Gloria” to Toronto for its Canadian debut.
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Makambe K Simamba brings her show ‘Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Li...

“The youth are the best, they’re going to take over the world,” Makambe K Simamba says. She thinks of her show as “a prayer for Black life.”
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Two North Bay notables — the Dionne quintuplets and shadflies — ins...

Drives to Sudbury and a visit to a Nebraskan retirement home, where some of the residents were passionate about the quints, fuelled Alain Doom’s “Le Club des éphémères.”
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‘Every author should be so lucky’ to have enduring story, says ‘Roo...

At long last, “Room” has opened at the Grand Theatre in London, Ont. It will play at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre April 5-May 8.
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Two theatre friends dive beneath the surface in ‘The House of Berna...

Soheil Parsa is directing Beatriz Pizano in the play by Federico Garcia Lorca, about a domineering matriarch who essentially puts her five adult daughters under house arrest after the death of her husband.

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What sets Cirque du Soleil’s delightful ‘Kurios’ apart is its wonde...

Cirque du Soleil’s “Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities” upholds its reputation as one of the company’s finest and most entertaining shows.
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Review | In ‘Sex T-Rex presents SKETCH T-REX,’ a favourite local tr...

Murderous puppets, feral chairs and an airborne James Bond feature in this hour-long show at the Toronto Fringe Festival
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He went viral with his I-quit-from-Starbucks song. Now comic songwr...

Having built a following on YouTube, the Toronto-based artist is back with a new laugh-filled, live-music how
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a crowd-pleaser but...

The show’s simple, hooky premise — a song cycle in different pop genres retelling the Biblical story of Joseph — is an opportunity for one spectacular musical number after another