This past Tuesday evening I witnessed a rarity — the recorder (that instrument you probably played in elementary school music class) used in a contemporary chamber setting. Michala Petri is a recorder virtuoso. It...

“My favourite emotion, laughing through tears,” said Clairee Belcher (Susan Clarke), one of the six memorable characters who inhabit Truvy’s Beauty Salon. The packed house at MTC on the opening night of Steel Magnolias...

How often is it that you get to see classical music being performed without the presence of a conductor or violins? If you’re answer is never, you’re almost right; that “almost” is thanks to...

It’s back. Did we think that, just because, in 1983, Michael Caine and Julie Walters did such a memorable job in the movie version of Educating Rita, we would see the end of it?...

How often does a play come along that has the audience rollicking with laughter while, at the same time, ripping their hearts out? Kevin Loring’s play Where the Blood Mixes began its life several years...

What does the 30 Years' War — which involved most of 17th century Europe — have in common with contemporary society, particularly one viewed through the lens of Marxism? If you were to answer,...

Imagine Franz Kafka, but without the joy and hope. You’ll arrive at Caryl Churchill’s Fen — a play as bleak as the landscape from which it is raised like the potatoes harvested by the...