Index of Toronto, Ontario Area Reviews

(Please note: The majority of AISLE SAY's theatre reviews were and are written in the wake of opening week performances. So, unless specifically indicated, cast replacements, and the quality with which a long running show is being maintained, will not necessarily be reflected.)


2016-2017 Season

2015-2016 Season

2014-2015 Season

2013-2014 Season


2011-2012 Season

  • Awake
  • The Aleph
  • Camelot (Stratford Festival)
  • Candida (Shaw Festival)
  • Caroline or Change
  • Chess:The Musical
  • Cruel and Tender
  • Dark Matters
  • Drama at Inish: A Comedy (Shaw Festival)
  • Fronteras Americanas
  • Ghosts
  • High Life
  • Kim's Convenience
  • My Fair Lady (Stratford Festival)
  • The Normal Heart
  • One Thousand and One Nights
  • Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience
  • Private Lives
  • Richard III (Stratford Festival)
  • Sex, Religion and Other Hang Ups
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • The Blue Dragon
  • The Grapes of Wrath (Stratford Festival)
  • The Maids
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor (Stratford Festival)
  • The Railway Children
  • The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs
  • War Horse
  • Archive of Previous Seasons

  • The Shaw Festival at 50
  • The Tempest at Stratford (Real life Slings & Arrows backstage tumult)
  • Theatre in South Africa & an Interview with Mannie Manim
  • Profile of Peter Van Wart, star of FRANKIE & JOHNNY...
  • Interview with Martin Bragg and Iris Turcott of CanStage
  • Interview with DJANET SEARS
  • BACKSTAGE AT "THE LION KING" (Toronto Company)
  • Five Las Vegas Productions

    Festival Reviews

  • The 2009 Luminato Festival:

  • Carmen (the ballet)
  • Lipsynch
  • Nevermore
  • A Poe Cabaret: A Dream Within a Dream
  • The 2007 Shaw Festival:
  • The Cassillis Engagement
  • The Circle
  • Hotel Peccadillo
  • Mack and Mabel
  • Summer and Smoke
  • The 2008 Shaw Festival

    Stratford Festival 2007:

  • Othello

    Stratford Festival 2008:

  • All's Well That Ends Well
  • Caesar and Cleopatra
  • Hughie
  • Krapp's Last Tape
  • The Music Man
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • The Trojan Women

    Stratford Festival 2009:

  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Macbeth
  • Stratford Festival 2010:
  • As You Like It
  • Harvey
  • Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
  • Peter Pan
  • The Tempest
  • The Winter's Tale
  • Miscellaneous Reviews

  • A Number
  • Adam Baum and the Jew Movie
  • Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God
  • And So It Goes
  • Annie Get Your Gun
  • Antigone
  • The Arab-Israeli Cookbook
  • Art
  • Arturo Brachetti
  • Assassins
  • August: Osage County
  • Barrymore
  • Bea Arthur on Broadway
  • Bigger Than Jesus
  • Billy Elliott (The Musical)
  • Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy
  • Blackbird
  • boxhead
  • Boy Gets Girl
  • The Boys in the Photograph
  • Brothel #9
  • The Bush-Ladies: In Their Own Words
  • Chronic
  • Cirque du Soleil: Banana Shpeel
  • The Clean House
  • The Color Purple
  • Consecrated Ground
  • Contact
  • Copenhagen
  • Counterfeit Secrets
  • Crave
  • 'Da Kink in My Hair
  • Death of a Salesman
  • Director's Cut
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Divisidero
  • Dr. Chekhov: Ward 6
  • The Drowsy Chaperone (tour)
  • e-Dentity
  • Doubt
  • The Edible Woman
  • Eternal Hydra
  • Fernando Krapp Wrote Me This Letter: An Attempt at the Truth
  • Fiddler on the Roof (Road Tour, Harvey Fierstein, 2010)
  • Frost/Nixon
  • The Good Life
  • Grendelmaus
  • Habeas Corpus
  • Half Life
  • Hair
  • Hairspray
  • Hardsell
  • Heart's Desire
  • The Hollow Crown
  • Homechild
  • Humbleboy
  • Insomnia
  • Intimate Apparel
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Jitters
  • King of Thieves
  • Job, The Hip-Hop Saga
  • John Bull’s Other Island
  • Lady in the Dark
  • The Laramie Project
  • The Laramie Project (Returns)
  • Leo
  • Letters from Lehrer
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
  • The Lion King
  • Little House on the Prairie (National Tour)
  • The Lonesome West
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Lord of the Rings (the closing)
  • The Lost Boys
  • The Time of Your Life
  • The Madonna Painter
  • Mama Mia!
  • Medea
  • The Misanthrope
  • Miss Julie: Freedom Summer
  • My Mother's Feet
  • Oh! What a Lovely War
  • Omnium Gatherum
  • Our Class
  • Our Town
  • The Overcoat
  • The Overwhelming
  • Palace of the End
  • Parade
  • Parfumerie
  • Pelagie
  • The Piano Lesson
  • Plan B
  • Pricilla: Queen of the Desert
  • The Producers
  • Provenance
  • The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular featuring the Rockettes
  • A Raisin in the Sun
  • The Rat Pack: Live from Las Vegas
  • Robin Hood: The Family Musical
  • The Rochdale Project
  • Rock and Roll
  • Rock of Ages (Road Tour)
  • rock.paper.sistahz
  • Saint Carmen of the Main
  • Spring Awakening
  • Stuff Happens (2008)
  • Stuff Happens (Commentary on Return Engagement, 2009)
  • Sweeney Todd
  • Syncopation
  • Take Me Out
  • That Face
  • Toronto the Good
  • Travesties
  • True Love Lies
  • 2 Pianos, 4 hands
  • This is Our Youth
  • The Time of Your Life
  • 3 Mo' Divas
  • Trudeau Stories
  • Trying
  • Two Words for Snow
  • Ubuntu
  • Unity
  • Urinetown
  • VIDA!
  • White Christmas
  • who knew grannie: a dub aria
  • Vinci
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Zadie's Shoes
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