J. Kelly Nestruck

Opening Night, Rufus Wainwright’s divisive new musical, closing early in London

How HBO’s The Sympathizer ended up with a showrunner with two faces: Don McKellar and Park Chan-wook

Five things to watch this weekend: The Sympathizer lands on Crave and The Zone of Interest comes to Prime

Christine Quintana’s El Terremoto shakes things up at Tarragon Theatre with its inspired approach to adaptation

Five things to watch this weekend: Netflix’s Ripley is prestige streaming and Aline arrives on CBC Gem

Netflix’s Ripley marks the return of the prestige-TV psychopath

Nestruck on Theatre: Fifteen Dogs returns - transposed to Montreal - and two other big, howling world premieres in Halifax and Toronto

Canadian Stage’s Brendan Healy delivers a powerful and poignant two-part Toronto premiere of The Inheritance

Five things to watch this weekend: Ramy Youssef brings More Feelings to Crave and Steve Martin documentary airs on Apple TV+

From Rachel McAdams to Des McAnuff: A Canadian guide to the spring shows on Broadway

Crave’s blue-collar comedy The Trades assembles a who’s who of hoserdom but still needs some refining

Canadian Stage aims to be ‘Toronto’s theatre’ again and attract an audience of 150,000 with 2024-2025 season

Five things to watch this weekend: Homicide: New York arrives on Netflix and Canada’s Got Talent is back

Sure, Netflix’s 3 Body Problem has a few problems - but it’s serious enough sci-fi to pine for a second season

They came for Shakespeare and stayed to donate: Stratford Festival reports surplus and higher attendance in 2023

Nestruck on Theatre: Canadian Stage bringing back panto in the style of Ross Petty to Toronto

Broadway’s Dana H., now in Toronto, is a harrowing piece of total theatre that must be experienced live and in person

One billion streams later, pop-musical Six is a bona fide hit with teenage girls

Nestruck on Theatre: Titanique, the hit Titanic spoof stuffed with Céline Dion songs, is coming to Canada