Shawn Wright's solo show has the occasional stumble, but it is ultimately a sweet and touching sendoff to a remarkable woman — and a worthy tribute to a formidable spirit.

The one-man play Every Brilliant Thing is unabashedly life-affirming, skilfully weaving light and dark, humour and tragedy, and a fair bit of painless (maybe even fun) audience participation in an engaging, reflective and satisfying 75 minutes.

The Royal MTC/Citadel Theatre's playful and inventive musical production of As You Like It sets Shakespeare's comedy in 1960s B.C., and mashes the Bard with the Beatles so well, you'll wonder why it hasn't been done before.

Everyone should have a friend like Frog. That’s the message that shines through in Manitoba Theatre for Young People’s latest production of the musical A Year with Frog and Toad — an unassuming, gentle and heartwarming series of vignettes about the two amphibious besties.

Formulaic and predictable though it may be, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s production of the "imagined sequel" to Pride and Prejudice demonstrates why the 2016 play has quickly become a hit — it’s entertaining, heartwarming and smartly crafted.

A wedding should be a joyous occasion. A multi-character comedy about a disastrous wedding reception should offer lots of laughs. Unfortunately, neither of those things materialize in Prairie Theatre Exchange's co-production of The Wedding Party.

With a genuinely unique story that opens the door for exploration of deep questions and often clever execution through puppetry, Winnipeg Jewish Theatre's premiere of The Golem's Mighty Swing has a lot going for it. But its structural flaws keep it stuck at first base.

Tackling coming of age, gender identity, suicide and family dysfunction — all in a funeral home setting — Fun Home is an unlikely hit musical. But it's a thoughtful and moving story, given a sterling production by an outstanding cast in the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Warehouse's production.

The Color Purple runs at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's John Hirsch Mainstage from Oct. 24 until Nov. 16.

A black teenager is shot during a traffic stop by a cop — who happens to be a black woman. Whose story is that, and who has the right to tell it? Those are the questions at the heart of Kat Sandler’s thoughtful and surprisingly funny play Bang Bang, which opens the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's 2019-20 season.

A Governor General's Award-winning playwright tackles the history of Canada, colonialism and the path to reconciliation — or to destruction — with humour, a sense of the absurd and a sometimes surprising, though justified, anger in The Third Colour.

A bar mitzvah is a very special moment in a young man's life — or in the life of a 60-something divorce lawyer. That's the premise of Bar Mitzvah Boy, which opens Winnipeg Jewish Theatre's season.

The latest production of Strike! The Musical at Rainbow Stage provides an engaging and satisfying take on a seminal moment in Winnipeg’s history.

While not all of the risks Shakespeare in the Ruins takes in their "gender occupied" Hamlet, it’s a fresh and engaging look at Shakespeare’s most famous play.

Torture, oppression, homophobia and revolution are not typically the makings of musical theatre. But John Kander and Fred Ebb found success with that dark material in Kiss of the Spider Woman, which gets a solid production from Winnipeg's Dry Cold.

One Trunk Theatre's production of Red Earth is presented by Theatre Projects Manitoba in partnership with Prairie Theatre Exchange. It runs until May 18 at PTE.

While maintaining, and sharing, the family cottage may be a challenge at times, Jake MacDonald’s new play The Cottage is anything but — it’s light, breezy entertainment that goes down as easy as a cold beer on the dock on a hot summer day.

How It Ends experiments — sometimes boldly, sometimes playfully, though not always entirely satisfyingly — with a blend of approaches to telling its story and raising difficult questions about life, disability and end-of-life issues.

What To Do With Albert? is an ambitious bilingual co-production between Prairie Theatre Exchange and Théâtre Cercle Molière, but it seems unlikely it's a script that works in any language.

Winnipeg Jewish Theatre's production of After Jerusalem runs at the Berney Theatre at the Asper Jewish Community Campus until April 14.