Casting is everything in Bowtie Productions’ ambitious stab at John Cameron Mitchell’s iconic rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. It’s a deceptively difficult piece, the smallness of its two-actor/one-act structure placing immense pressure on the performers who have to carry exceptionally dense material with relentless energy and barely a few moments, if any, offstage. […]
Woking Phoenix (Silk Bath Collective & Theatre Passe Muraille) Anchored by an incandescent performance from Phoebe Hu as a single mom trying to raise three kids while running a small town’s only Chinese restaurant, Woking Phoenix is a delicate and moving tribute to immigrant parents, created by Silk Bath Collective and currently onstage at Theatre […]