Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. Every year we sit down with as many of our nominees as possible to get some insight into their nominated work. This year, the series will be split between written...
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...
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Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.   If you consider their Artist of the Year nomination as acknowledgement of both Dandelion Theatre/William Shakespeare & Friends Collective’s Timon of Athens and Soup Can Theatre/Three Ships Collective’s Christmas Carol (which you should, that’s the intention), […]

Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.   This is playwright Nick Green’s second year in a row with season-stealing plays in both our Outstanding New Work and Outstanding Production categories. After last year’s triumphant Casey & Diana, Nick did it again with Dinner […]

It’s time to announce the winners of our annual Critics’ Pick Awards.   Read the full list of nominees HERE.   Without further ado, the 2024 winners of our Critics’ Pick Awards for TV:   Outstanding Scripted Series Alice & Jack   Outstanding Docuseries Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War   Outstanding Reality […]

It’s time to announce the winners of our annual Critics’ Pick Awards.   Read the full list of nominees HERE.   Without further ado, the 2024 winners of our Critics’ Pick Awards for Film:   Outstanding Leading Performance Demi Moore (The Substance)   Outstanding Supporting Performance Jonathan Bailey (Wicked)   Outstanding Ensemble Performance September 5 […]

The ultimate test of any great theatre script lies in its second production. Though unfortunately sporting the same director as the original 2023 Stratford run and its 2024 Soulpepper transfer and thus perhaps not as thought through from the drawing board as I may have liked, playwright Nick Green’s glorious Casey & Diana is currently […]

Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.   One of our most-nominated productions of the year was Silk Bath Collective’s beautiful and personal Woking Phoenix, produced at Theatre Passe Muraille. We spoke with Silk Bath’s founding trio Aaron Jan, Bessie Cheng, and Gloria Mok […]

Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.   Outstanding Performance in a Musical nominee Taylor Long has quickly become one of the most recognizable faces in Toronto’s thriving indie musical theatre scene. He’s nominated this year for his role as Marvin in Bowtie Productions’ […]

Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.   In Doctor Bird Productions’ concert staging of Jekyll & Hyde, Outstanding Performance in a Musical nominee Emma Bergin stole our hearts with her complex and impeccably sung performance as Lucy. We caught up with her to […]