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Banner season for Theatre Aquarius leaves the pandemic behind

Five shows in the 2025-2026 season accounted for more than 70,000 tickets sold, and a revenue increase of about 52 per cent over the previous year, leading to an operating surplus. The devastating effects of the pandemic are finally over at Theatre Aquarius. Hamilton’s downtown theatre had…
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REVIEW: Everything’s right with The Play That Goes Wrong

Dundas Little Theatre does a masterful job of this chaotic play-within-a-play murder mystery and its physcial comedy. The premise of Dundas Little Theatre’s current production is stated right in the title, The Play That Goes Wrong. It’s a play-within-a-play. A small, earnest English theatre group embarks on a…
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REVIEW: Brothers Karamazov is intimate, intriguing

Young powerhouses at Cataclysm Theatre tackle Dostoevsky’s epic story of love, faith, and murder as an ambitious inaugural production with an all-female cast. It continues at The Staircase this weekend. The final work of iconic Russian novelist Fyodor Dostevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, pulls no punches. A theological morality…
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Joseph goes Las Vegas in Theatre Aquarius’s holiday show

A modern staging of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat sees dreams of a rock career, and Sin City characters, along with glittery comedy, big musical numbers, and central themes of forgiveness, redemption, and finding home. It runs Nov. 18 to Jan. 3. Las Vegas is coming to…
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REVIEW: Evil Dead The Musical brings the laughs

Hamilton Theatre Inc. production features strong performances, gorgeous set design, and some of the horror of the films. Sam Raimi’s ’80s cult classic zombie/demon franchise lives on into the 2020s, with a surprisingly Canadian twist! A comedy-horror musical that debuted in 2003 in Toronto, Evil Dead The Musical…
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Hamilton Phil brings big feelings of Schubert & Tchaikovsky

These two composers embodied their artistic eras while also pushing music in genuinely groundbreaking directions. Few composers embody their artistic eras as vividly as Franz Schubert and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, while also pushing music in genuinely groundbreaking directions. Both created deeply personal, expressive works that significantly expanded…