We’re bringing back our Critics’ Pick Awards for the 2024 season. After reading our list of Theatre Nominees below, be sure to check out the nominees from our TV and Film branches as well.   A Note About This Year’s Awards Today marks 15 years since this awards series expanded to...
My favourite Stratford production so far* this year is undoubtedly The Diviners, Verne Thiessen & Yvette Nolan’s grand adaptation of Margaret Laurence’s novel of the same name.   Staged with beautiful fluidity by Krista Jackson with Geneviève Pelletier, the production contains some of...
This season’s Shaw Festival programming on the Royal George Theatre’s iconic proscenium stage showcases a strong assortment of styles and themes ranging from trademark execution of a Shaw classic, to a freshly adapted childhood favourite, hyper-stylized Chinese fable, and a noir vision...
Welcome to the hub for our Toronto Comicon 2024 coverage. Click the links below to view our galleries and videos from the con. For more from our weekend at Comicon, check out @MyEntWorld on Instagram and on Facebook.   The Con Gallery: Cosplay The Con Gallery: Exhibitors & Panels...
Before we announce the winners of our 2023 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re thrilled to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. This year we spoke to fifteen of our theatre nominees about the work that earned them their nomination.   This year’s series includes:   Matthew...
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We’re bringing back our Critics’ Pick Awards for the 2024 season. After reading our list of Theatre Nominees below, be sure to check out the nominees from our TV and Film branches as well.   A Note About This Year’s Awards Today marks 15 years since this awards series expanded to include theatre (we started in […]

We’re bringing back our Critics’ Pick Awards for the 2024 season!   When Are the Winners Announced? A full list of winners will be published on our website in February. Stay tuned to our Facebook and @MyEntWorld on Instagram and Twitter for updates.   Fan Favourite Email editors@myentertainmentworld.ca with the subject line “TV Fan Favourite: NOMINEE’S NAME” to vote for any […]

We’re bringing back our Critics’ Pick Awards for the 2024 season!   When Are the Winners Announced? A full list of winners will be published on our website in February. Stay tuned to our Facebook and @MyEntWorld on Instagram and Twitter for updates.   Fan Favourite Email editors@myentertainmentworld.ca with the subject line “Film Fan Favourite: NOMINEE’S NAME” to vote for any […]

The past few weeks in Toronto theatre featured a range of works that at their core all touched on similar themes despite their vast superficial differences. In tense, inflationary times, these four pieces examined how financial pressures can bring out the best and worst in all of us.   Most explicit on this topic was […]

Based on the book by Melly Magrath, Not a Cult: The Musical explores the various ways we can get sucked into culty behaviour without even realizing it. This Small but Mighty production brings us into the world of Joy (Bebe Brunjes) and her adult camp that purports to be about ‘fun’ but slowly reveals the […]

The National Ballet of Canada’s 2024/25 season is off to a strong start with a varied and ambitious mixed bill that showcases the strength and diversity of the company’s up and coming talent while honouring the legacy of their iconic leading man as he enters his final season.   The evening kicks off with Body […]

 

Interior Design (Tarragon Theatre) The first play in this week’s roundup features the most complicated exploration of the myriad ways we terrorize each other as it centers on a quartet of friends who presumably (reportedly, ultimately) do love each other. Rosa Laborde’s script about four old friends fighting (or not) to stay friends is a […]

We’re still physical media devotees round these parts with lots of room in our hearts and on our shelves for DVDs, Blu-rays, and even the occasional VHS (an old beat up copy of The Truman Show and our trusty VCR recently rescued a social event when rain ruined our outdoor screening). In that spirit, we’re […]