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First up in memorable theatre moments from 2025 in this roundup by @intermissionmag.bsky.social is a "hilariously unhinged escape sequence" from our production of The 39 Steps, performed by the hilarious and talented trio of Sébastien Heins, Kiana Woo, and Isaiah Kolundzic!
With the lights fading on another year of fleeting thrills in dark rooms, we asked 12 Ontario performing arts writers to reflect on a moment that stayed with them.

The results mainly stem from Toronto theatre productions, with a few surprises weaved in.

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Twelve indelible moments of performance from 2025
With the lights fading on another year of theatre, we asked 12 Ontario performing arts writers to reflect on a moment that stayed with them.
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December 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
With the lights fading on another year of fleeting thrills in dark rooms, we asked 12 Ontario performing arts writers to reflect on a moment that stayed with them.

The results mainly stem from Toronto theatre productions, with a few surprises weaved in.

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Twelve indelible moments of performance from 2025
With the lights fading on another year of theatre, we asked 12 Ontario performing arts writers to reflect on a moment that stayed with them.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
As Bad Dog's third-annual staging of Holiday! An Improvised Musical enters its final week, Page Turn participant Melissa spoke with members of the team to find out how they manage to improvise a Sondheim-inspired musical from scratch every night.

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Behind the scenes with Bad Dog's 'Holiday! An Improvised Musical'
In order to discover the secrets of this Dora Award-nominated production, I met with members of the team as they prepared for the show.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
REVIEW: Tom Rooney dazzles in world premiere of Michael Healey’s Rogers v. Rogers

"Rooney and Healey skewer the Rogers family with a disarmingly relaxed virtuosity that the surrounding production sometimes supports, and sometimes lets down."

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Review: Tom Rooney dazzles in 'Rogers v. Rogers' at Crow's
Rooney and Healey skewer the Rogers family with a disarmingly relaxed virtuosity that the surrounding production sometimes lets down.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
REVIEW: National Ballet’s scrumptious Nutcracker will melt every last Grinch-heart in town

"James Kudelka’s Nutcracker treats children as imaginative equals and adults as worthy of a sprinkling of magic, too. It’s an unwavering, saturated dream of joy."

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Review: National Ballet’s 'Nutcracker' is scrumptious
James Kudelka’s 'Nutcracker' treats children as imaginative equals and adults as worthy of a sprinkling of magic, too.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
REVIEW: Bad Hats’ Narnia is a joyful, heartwarming escape

"The spirit of openness and the joy of discovery rule over this Narnia. Open the wardrobe and see."

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Review: Bad Hats’ 'Narnia' is a joyful, heartwarming escape
The spirit of openness and the joy of discovery rule over this 'Narnia' at Soulpepper in the Distillery District. Open the wardrobe and see.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
REVIEW: Lester Trips’ stylish Public Consumption captures the internet’s profound emptiness

"Rather than directly representing online life, Public Consumption speculates — with virtuosity — about how the digital world affects our bodies."

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Review: 'Public Consumption' captures the internet’s emptiness
Rather than directly representing online life, 'Public Consumption' speculates about how the digital world affects our bodies.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
REVIEW: Necessary Angel’s Moonlight Schooner offers a poetic glimpse into the lives of three Caribbean sailors

"Moonlight Schooner is animated and visually stunning, but its individual pieces don’t come together as neatly as I would've expected."

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Review: 'Moonlight Schooner' is a poetic but uneven period piece
'Moonlight Schooner' is animated and visually stunning, but its individual pieces don’t come together as neatly as I would've expected.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
REVIEW: Here For Now’s well-acted Reproduktion attempts to tackle too much

"Amy Rutherford’s world premiere script is ambitious and the material it covers is complex — but the narrative feels disjointed."

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Review: Here For Now’s 'Reproduktion' attempts to tackle too much
Amy Rutherford’s world premiere script is ambitious and the material it covers is complex — but the narrative feels disjointed.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
REVIEW: Obsidian and Tarragon co-production reflects on the inadequacy of language

"a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun): the title says it all, offering a definition for an absent word. The thing is the thing unsaid."

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Review: Delicate Tarragon drama unpacks language's inadequacy
'a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)': the title says it all, offering a definition for an absent word.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Narnia completes trilogy of musicals championing a child’s-eye view of life

"What emerged for us was this idea of life cycles,” reflects adaptor-director Fiona Sauder. “‘[What things] have to die and fall away in order for new things to grow?’”

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Bad Hats' 'Narnia' completes trilogy of family-friendly musicals
"'[What things] have to die and fall away in order for new things to grow?’" wonders 'Narnia' adaptor-director Fiona Sauder.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
REVIEW: With equal parts joy and indignation, The Christmas Market shines a light on migrant labour

"Delicately balanced with humour and emotionally charged dialogue, The Christmas Market is vibrant and moving, bottled up like lightning in 90 minutes."

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Review: 'The Christmas Market' shines a light on migrant labour
Among softly falling snowflakes, dense rum cake, and a tree that twirls of its own accord, 'The Christmas Market' unfolds.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
REVIEW: Theatre Gargantua’s Dissonant Species features live science experiments and impressive visual storytelling

"For the first half of the show, you can’t help but focus on director Jacquie P.A. Thomas' thoughtful scenic choices."

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Review: 'Dissonant Species' features impressive visual storytelling
For the first half of the show, you can’t help but focus on director Jacquie P.A. Thomas' thoughtful scenic choices.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
For composer Njo Kong Kie 楊光奇, the word ‘artist’ is a complicated label.

Intermission staff writer Nathaniel Hanula-James sits down with the Dora Award–winning composer to trace a career that’s moved fluidly between opera, theatre, and dance.

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For composer Njo Kong Kie, the word ‘artist’ is a complicated label
Dora Award–winning composer Njo Kong Kie 楊光奇 on redefining what makes someone an “artist” — and why the label still feels complicated.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
REVIEW: Jessica B. Hill’s Pandora thinks outside the box at Stratford’s Here For Now Theatre

"Weave Pandora's disparate elements together and a story emerges that is equal parts moving and fascinating."

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Review: Jessica B. Hill’s 'Pandora' thinks outside the box
At face value, 'Pandora' resembles random chaos. But weave its parts together and a story emerges that is equal parts moving and fascinating.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
REVIEW: Soulpepper’s The Comeuppance unpacks high-school reunions with deadly, millennial-aged precision

"Macabre and drama-filled, The Comeuppance will probably be most compelling to the around-40 crowd who share its specific touchstones."

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'The Comeuppance' unpacks high-school reunions with precision
Macabre and drama-filled yet surprisingly gentle, 'The Comeuppance' will probably be most compelling to the around-40 crowd.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
REVIEW: TfT delivers humour and cruelty in striking rendition of Camus’ Le Malentendu

"Director Karine Ricard banishes all earthly joy from the scene, leaving behind an almost lunar coldness."

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Review: TfT delivers funny and striking rendition of 'Le Malentendu'
In this staging of 'Le Malentendu,' director Karine Ricard banishes all earthly joy from the scene, leaving behind an almost lunar coldness.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Tara Beagan wins 2025 Governor General’s Award for drama
Her multilingual play 'Rise, Red River' connects environmental devastation with the intergenerational impacts of colonial violence.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
REVIEW: The Far Side of the Moon is insomniac theatre

"The Far Side of the Moon begins and ends with a large mirror on stage, and it extracts enigmatic power from the tantalizing question of whether Philippe is losing himself in his reflection, or moving toward self-discovery."

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Review: Lepage’s 'The Far Side of the Moon' is insomniac theatre
The Far Side of the Moon begins and ends with a large mirror on stage, and the show uses it to raise tantalizingly enigmatic questions.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
REVIEW: National Ballet’s Procession tangles the lines of sorrow and sensuality

"Procession, the National Ballet of Canada’s brooding and stylized world premiere ballet, rushes to the stage with startling vitality — and does so at a funeral."

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Review: National Ballet's 'Procession' blurs sorrow and sensuality
'Procession,' the National Ballet of Canada’s brooding and stylized world premiere ballet, rushes to the stage with startling vitality.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
REVIEW: Tarragon’s CHILD-ish takes a hopeful and hilarious look at life through kids’ eyes

"It’s a giggly good time, if a pinch oversweet."

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Review: 'CHILD-ish' takes a hilarious look at life through kids’ eyes
Making its Toronto premiere in the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace, Sunny Drake's 'CHILD-ish' is a giggly good time, if a pinch oversweet.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
REVIEW: At Ottawa’s GCTC, you won’t expect what happens when Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre

"Sarah Kitz’s production leans into the play’s real strength: its exploration of narrative."

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Many layers to GCTC's 'Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre'
Sarah Kitz’s Great Canadian Theatre Company production leans into the play’s real strength: its exploration of narrative.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
REVIEW: Talk is Free Theatre’s Blackbird offers a close-up look at two detailed performances

"Director Dean Deffett has concocted a tight, straightforward production, primarily of interest as an intimate character study."

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Review: 'Blackbird' offers a close-up look at detailed performances
Emerging director Dean Deffett has concocted a tight, straightforward production, primarily of interest as an intimate character study.
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October 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
REVIEW: Garner Theatre Productions’ Bright Star coasts on charm and likability

"Co-writer Steve Martin’s wit, which blazes in plays like Picasso at the Lapin Agile, merely twinkles here."

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Review: 'Bright Star' coasts on charm and likability at Mirvish
Co-writer Steve Martin’s wit, which blazes in plays like 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile,' merely twinkles here.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM