Reviews

Generations of storytellers have described Baba Yaga as a hideous, child-eating witch who flies through forests in a mortar and lives in a hut on chicken legs.

During rehearsals for Boy Player, director Jonathan Greenway began throwing crumpled paper at Frank Moher while the playwright-performer worked through a scene in which he watches himself in crisis.

Shadow Theatre is opening its 2026–27 season with Kat Sandler’s Yaga, a mystery-comedy that begins at Edmonton’s Varscona Theatre on October 14.

Jay Whitehead was backstage in Sackville, New Brunswick, this summer, preparing for a performance of his play 333: The Toronto Bathhouse Raids, when word reached him about a man at the theatre.

Six comedians are scheduled to take the stage at Toronto’s Comedy Bar on Friday, Oct. 23, for Whose Land Is It Anyways?, a showcase featuring Indigenous and South Asian stand-up performers.

Sault Ste. Marie theatre artist Adam Francis Proulx is bringing a project nearly a decade in development back to his hometown for the Algoma Fall Festival.

Bad Dog Theatre’s Roses & Thorns is back for four Friday performances in October at Comedy Bar Bloor, beginning Oct 9, 2026 and continuing Oct 16, 2026, Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026. All four shows begin at 7 p.m.

Tracy & Martina, the Cape Breton comedy duo created and performed by Justine Williamson and Greg Vardy, are continuing their first cross-Canada tour with six verified dates still ahead.

Vancouver playwright Jordyn Wood’s Vascular Necrosis reaches its world-premiere production this week, beginning with an Oct. 7 preview at The Nest on Granville Island and continuing through Oct. 18 in a co-production from Touchstone Theatre and Glitch Theatre.

Elena Belyea’s I Don’t Even Miss You is back in Edmonton four years after it appeared in RISER Edmonton, returning as the fourth stop on a national tour that has since taken the work to Ottawa, Toronto and Calgary.

While studying theatre in Quebec, Iannicko N’Doua travelled to Côte d’Ivoire for the first time to find his father. Waiting there was a part of his family life that had largely existed at a distance.

In 2018, comedian Sandra Battaglini initiated a House of Commons petition asking the federal government to designate stand-up comedy an art form and make public arts funding available to comedians.