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2026-11-01 · Toronto Star · Entertainment

How three Toronto friends turned a family secret into a hit musical

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2026-10-03 · Toronto Star · Entertainment

‘The Karate Kid’ musical at Mirvish is banal and generic — but one actor shines

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2026-09-26 · Toronto Star · Entertainment

A long-neglected Black classic opens Canadian Stage with a quiet, shattering look at race and misogyny

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2026-09-26 · Toronto Star

🔮 At a later time, Bill says “Black is beautiful,” mouthing the catch phrase that would become an empowering movement in the 1960s, a reaction to the European beauty standards that were — and let’s face it, still are — pervasive. assertive

2026-10-03 · Toronto Star

🔮 Simmons’ preppy villain Johnny is so villainous, he might as well sport a moustache and be twirling it. assertive

2026-11-01 · Toronto Star

🔮 The title refers to the secret that Tomaschoff’s parents kept — that their son was donor-conceived — until they discovered that Noam was going to do a 23AndMe genetic test and would eventually find out that the boy’s father was not his biological dad. Shortly after Tomaschoff got the news, in 2022, he phoned his friends, including Peters, who teaches music at their alma mater, the Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, or CHAT), and Citron, a theatre producer (who’s also a producer on the hit musical “Operation Mincemeat”). assertive