This week’s Theater Loop Showcase video is Leah Urzendowski in “Burning Bluebeard,” the dark holiday play from The Ruffians beginning Dec. 13 at Theater Wit. Jay Torrence’s play harkens back to the ...

Director Daisy Evans and conductor Stephen Higgins, who last Thursday wrote eloquently for theartsdesk about this production’s basis in personal experience, decide that Judith is the isolated one, a ...

I fished this jacket I hadn’t worn since last winter out of storage the other day and found a pin in the inside pocket that said, in small black capitals, “MAGIC COTTON BALLS.” Many playgoers around ...

Bluebeard, from 1977, is a test of loyalty for even the most ardent Bausch fan. A response to Bartok’s opera about a serial wife-murderer and his last victim, it has none of the humour, nostalgia or ...