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'C’est la vida!' uses mime, dance, and electro beats to remix classic rom-com tropes “Having endless talks with David about love... while creating and touring this show has definitely helped me grow,” says dancer Liesbeth Kiebooms. buff.ly/QpVLyEw

Ahead of Canadian Stage’s Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Ann-Marie MacDonald reflects on Shakespeare — and power skating This November, Canadian Stage will produce a revival of the acclaimed play at the Bluma Appel Theatre. buff.ly/xTUthfH

Uneasy lies the head that… runs an English department? Tarragon’s 'Prophetess' spins a web of power and poetics buff.ly/ZCGnkZs

“What do I believe?” It’s a question that Aluna Theatre artistic director Beatriz Pizano returns to again and again as she curates RUTAS, the company’s biennial festival of international performance. buff.ly/Ue70Z80

Speaking in Draft is back! In this edition, staff writer Nathaniel Hanula-James tackles a big question: how can theatre directors forge a sustainable career in Canada? buff.ly/veZz4eo

Jonathan Church’s first Stratford Festival season serves up musicals, Shakespeare, and literature adaptations — with a helping of Saul Rubinek. buff.ly/YiPd89S

Q&A: At RUTAS Festival, Tara Beagan’s 'Mujer Venado / Deer Woman' makes its Spanish-language premiere. The translation connects the play’s existing themes to the experiences of missing and murdered Indigenous women across the Americas. buff.ly/mTn5rhS

Backyard Theatre Festival launches new outdoor stage in Montreal The space can accommodate roughly 10 performers and 60 to 70 attendees, and offers an eco-sensitive, no-frills, low-cost venue for both artists and audiences. buff.ly/Om7Zf6u

How Stratford Festival dancer Devon Michael Brown leaps and pirouettes through 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Something Rotten!' “It's so exhausting, but it's really rewarding when you get to dance so full-out,” says Devon Michael Brown. buff.ly/Co7wuIw

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Alliance Française Toronto unveils 2026-27 season at Spadina Theatre International theatre and dance will play at the downtown venue alongside live music, free cinema, exhibitions, and more. buff.ly/6VwxgFU

Meet Michael Man, the versatile actor playing Gollum at the Stratford Festival. “What we do as actors is play,” he quipped. “We imagine and play fearlessly.” buff.ly/JSqLYyK

Why you need to see more Alice Childress plays — an artist's perspective, written by director Jordan Laffrenier "Somewhere there is a river of scripts that have been excluded from stages because they weren’t seen as the right colour." buff.ly/hfWfgu4

MADGEN Theatre Festival returns to the Danforth Theatre of the Beat selected four producers under the age of 30 to receive paid mentorship from Toronto theatre-makers. From August 20 to 22, each member of the cohort mounts a new one-act Canadian play. buff.ly/0cVND8A

David Suzuki and Lester Trips to headline Factory Theatre’s fall season The season program features a production starring David Suzuki, the world premiere of Lester Trips’ 'Provisions,' and the return of 'Holiday! An Improvised Musical.' buff.ly/HWrX41K

Clowning duo from 'The 39 Steps' returns to GFT in Jane Austen’s 'Northanger Abbey' “You have so much license to be so silly. There are so many stupid jokes in this show in the absolute best way," says Isaiah Kolundzic. intermissionmagazine.ca/feat…

This year’s SummerWorks Performance Festival strives to make accessibility intrinsic The curated festival’s 36th edition features a range of works by Disabled and neurodivergent artists where the medium is very much the message. buff.ly/hOrMQ5o

Theatre critic (and frequent contributor to Intermission) Hunter Weaymouth has written reviews for six Hamilton Fringe shows. Unlike our other capsule review collections for previous Fringe festivals, this will not be a rolling file — check it out! buff.ly/gKa3t7l

Guild Festival Theatre’s 'Brontë: The World Without' is a window into the ordinary lives of literary icons Jordi Mand’s play, set in the Brontës’ house in West Yorkshire, traces the trio’s lives between 1846 and 1849. buff.ly/GKh6ud9

Why Paul Gross thinks Waiting for Godot is ‘one of the great achievements of human creativity’ “There isn't a big division between the stage and the audience,” says Gross, currently playing Vladimir in Waiting for Godot at the Stratford Festival. buff.ly/at09l0n