Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. The final performer in our series this year is Artist of the Year nominee Qasim Khan. In 2024, Qasim starred in three very different, very challenging, and highly lauded productions including Coal Mine’s Hedda Gabler and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. One of our favourite productions of the 2024 Toronto Fringe Festival, Desperate Measures featured a funny and fresh script co-created by Rachel Moore & Catherine Teichman. We spoke with the Outstanding New Work-nominated playwrights to hear […]
Before we announce the winners of our 2024 Critics’ Pick Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. I saw 40 plays at the 2024 Toronto Fringe Festival and my very favourite was a deeply strange clown two-hander about Albertan rats. Creative, heartfelt, and executed brilliantly, Rat Academy is a perfect example of […]