The Next Stage Theatre Festival

A division of the Toronto Fringe Festival, the NSTF gives us a cure just as the Winter Blues are worming their way into our souls. Who needs NeoCitran when you’ve got 12 days of therapeutic theatre?!
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January 9, 2016 • Views: 1335

Stuck sticks in your funny bone.

By Amos Crawley Natasha Boomer headlines this nightly improv performance in Factory Theatre’s

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January 9, 2016 • Views: 1557

Heart of Steel shows real pluck.

By Amos Crawley I was trepidatious about Wesley J. Colford’s Heart Of Steel, now playing at the

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January 8, 2016 • Views: 1325

Urban Myth is under-the-radar art

For someone who loves dance, I see embarrassingly little of it in the city. So I was more than

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January 8, 2016 • Views: 1107

Modern Agamemnon still shows the wounds of war.

This adaptation of the Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, features cell phones, video games and dildos

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January 8, 2016 • Views: 1268

All Our Yesterdays is really great theatre.

Although I won’t be able to see all shows at the Next Stage Theatre Festival, I still feel

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January 4, 2016 • Views: 1604

Hard-hitting theatre at 2016 Next Stage Theatre Fest.

As your artistic spidey-sense has already told you the Next Stage Festival kicks off on this

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January 17, 2015 • Views: 1160

KATHY BLANCHARD provides comic relief, if a bit too scripted

Geoffrey Pounsett, Daniel-Pagett By Lindsay SwansonThe Next Stage Theatre Festival

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January 13, 2015 • Views: 1087

Piece by Piece deals with tragedy & compassion with real...

By Lindsay Swanson The Next Stage Theatre Festival’s performance of PIECE BY PIECE is a

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January 7, 2013 • Views: 1206

AWAKE: Necessary, Relevant and Honest

Awake: Peyson Rock (Photo credit: Steve Carty) By Amos Crawley Made up entirely of

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