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Saturday, August 22, 2026

Short Takes: Farce and Children’s Theatre at Shaw and Stratford Festivals

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Jeff Irving, Damien Atkins, and Travis Seetoo in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense . (Photo: Michael Cooper.) P. G. Wodehouse gets the ...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

The Theatre Within the Ink

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Uproar in Heaven (1979), Collection of the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy. The figures in Guan Liang’s paintings seem almost to have wan...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Shaw and Stratford Festivals: Twentieth-Century Classics

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Julia Course and Martin Happer in Heartbreak House . (Photo: David Cooper.) The allegorical high comedy Heartbreak House is one of George B...
Sunday, August 9, 2026

Musicals at Shaw and Stratford: Funny Girl and Guys and Dolls

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Sara Farb as Fanny Brice (understudied by Jade Repetta at the performance our critic attended) in Funny Girl. (Photo: David Cooper.) Since ...
Monday, August 3, 2026

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Classics

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André Sills and Krystin Pellerin in Othello . (Photo: David Hou.) The question up for grabs in any production of Shakespeare’s Othello is w...
Saturday, August 1, 2026

New from Criterion: Stanley Donen's Charade

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Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade . (Photo: Universal/Criterion Collection.) In a career devoted to giving audiences pleasure, Stanle...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Split Screen: Ogunquit's City of Angels

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Tony Yazbeck and Ben Jacoby in City of Angels . (Photo: Nile Scott Studios.) The 1989 City of Angels is one of the wittiest and most origin...