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Karen Fricker

Karen Fricker

Theatre Critic at Toronto Star Online

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Scrappy new stage version of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ features all-female cast, poop jokes

Send-up of classic Jane Austen story told from the point of view of five servants in the household, offers contemporary feminism, class politics and scatalogical humour
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Big, sexy historical thriller featuring rogue trapper, Wendat warri...

Rogue trapper, Wendat warriors feature in Genevieve Adam’s ‘Heartless’
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It's a Sondheim-palooza: Broadway's latest season embraces the musi...

Here’s what to see in New York, in the middle of the 2023/2024 season, where successful original musicals are a rarity and producers continue to lean on jukebox musicals as surer box office bets.
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‘Dion: A Rock Opera’ at Coal Mine Theatre is a new Canadian musical...

This version of “The Bacchae” turns into a timely indictment of the destruction that single-minded thinking can cause, but could rock even harder in a larger space
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‘Les Misérables’ remains an emotional powerhouse in its return to T...

‘Les Misérables’ remains an emotional powerhouse in its return to Toronto
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Canadian theatremaker Robert Lepage gives us what we want

Lepage is set to mark his return to the Stratford Festival next year with “Macbeth,” set in the milieu of Quebec’s biker gang wars.
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Shakespeare mashed up elements of his past works in the little perf...

Director Esther Jun and her wonderful cast roll with the play’s stylistic and thematic improbabilities and excesses in this Stratford Festival production.
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This famous drag queen felt purposeless. Then a shocking incident c...

Ireland's Panti Bliss, the drag persona of Rory O’Neill, is coming to Toronto with her autobiographical solo show, "If These Wigs Could Talk."
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Theatre actor Peter Fernandes doesn’t say no to himself

He wanted to play the role made famous by James Corden in “One Man, Two Guvnors,” so he asked the Shaw Festival to make it happen.
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It was the biggest whodunit of the summer theatre season — and now ...

The author of the Shaw Festival’s Sherlock Holmes play “The Mystery of the Human Heart” has itself been a mystery for months.
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That sound you’re hearing on Toronto stages? It’s women talking — w...

Two plays and a musical subverted traditional dramatic narrative by making female conversation their subject matter and central action.