Theatre – Cultural Binge

Putting It Together (Foundry Theatre) ★★★★

I’ve got to say it feels good to be opening 2026 by seeing (and hearing) some Sondheim—performed by the very best.

Let me start by saying Pretty Woman: The Musical is NOT the worst musical I’ve seen in 2025.

Welcome to Christmas Eve in the Chinese Underworld,

Dial M for Murder is excessively fruity, rum-soaked and complex — basically a fancy Christmas pudding on stage. This is a hell of a lot of fun.

Born on a Thursday delivers some hard family truths, anchored by a seamlessly powerful performance from Sharon Millerchip.

Romeo and Juliet are back to “love fast and die young” one more time. Those crazy kids and their poisons…

Some very good elements mixed with some poor elements mean it all evens out in the wash.

This may be the first genuinely good pandemic-adjacent play I’ve seen — and also one of the best adaptations of The Seagull

Cowbois, a queer fantasia on Western themes now playing at Seymour Centre, ricochets between tones at a furious pace.

It’s back — the most caustic of all domestic comedies.