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The company with the largest number of entries in the top 50 is the Stratford Festival with 12, followed by the Shaw Festival with 8 (counting Mahabharata as one). Counting a company each time it presented a show on its own or as a co-pro, Crow’s Theatre has 5 while Canadian Stage, Soulpepper and Talk Is Free Theatre tie at 3 each. Théâtre français de Toronto and The Musical Stage Company tie at 2 each. Of the 50 shows, 21 were presented in Toronto.

The review for & Juliet is important as the first review by new guest critic Alessandro Stracuzzi, a theatre critic from Italy now resident in Toronto. Alessandro has a diploma in acting from the Scuola di Teatro SDM, Milan, and an M.A. in History of Theatre from the University of Milan with special interests in emerging voices, cross-cultural perspectives and Canadian drama. We look forward to reading more of Alessandro’s reviews in the future.

Dates are given in parentheses for non-2025 reviews. — The Editor

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1. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, Stratford

2. As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, Stratford

3. Zone (2012) by Marcel Dubé, Théâtre français de Toronto & Théâtre La Catapulte, Toronto

4. Anne of Green Gables by Kat Sandler, Stratford Festival, Stratford

5. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels by David Yazbek, Stratford Festival, Stratford

6. Anything Goes by Cole Porter, Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake

7. Corteo (2018) by Daniele Finzi Pasca, Cirque du Soleil, Toronto

8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Selma Dimitrijevic & Tim Carroll, Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake

9. Annie by Charles Strouse & Martin Charnin, Stratford Festival, Stratford

10. A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson, The Musical Stage Company, Soulpepper Theatre Company, Crow’s Theatre & TO Live, Toronto

11. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, Canadian Stage, Toronto

12. Bug by Tracy Letts, The King Black Box with Elkabong Theatre Projects, Toronto

13. Beyonsea and the Mothers by Teneile Warren, Green Light Arts, Kitchener

14. The Tempest (2010) by William Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, Stratford

15. Fat Ham by James Ijames, Canadian Stage, Toronto

16. Rope (2019) by Patrick Hamilton, Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake

17. Tons of Money by Will Evans & Valentine, Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake

18. Ruby and the Reindeer by Mark Crawford, Here For Now Theatre Company, Stratford

19. Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill, Stratford Festival, Stratford

20. Octet by Dave Malloy, Crow’s Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre Company & The Musical Stage Company, Toronto

21. My Neighbour Totaro by Tom Morton-Smith, Joe Hisaishi & Royal Shakespeare Company with Nippon TV & Improbable, London, GBR

22. The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, Stratford

23. Forgiveness by Hiro Kanagawa, Stratford Festival, Stratford

24. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Coal Mine Theatre, Toronto

25. Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage, Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake

26. Ubu and the Truth Commission (2015) by Jane Taylor, Canadian Stage, Toronto

27. One for the Pot (2017) by Ray Cooney & Tony Hilton, Drayton Entertainment, Grand Bend

28. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare BASH’d, Toronto

29. Cock (2024) by Mike Bartlett, Talk Is Free Theatre, Barrie

30. For Both Resting and Breeding by Adam Meisner, Talk Is Free Theatre, Toronto

31. The Art of War by Yvette Nolan, Stratford Festival, Stratford

32. Goblin:Oedipus by Rebecca Northan & Bruce Horak, Spontaneous Theatre, Stratford

33. Serving Elizabeth (2021) by Marcia Johnson, Stratford Festival, Stratford

34. Blackbird by David Harrower, Talk Is Free Theatre, Toronto

35. White Christmas (2022) by Irving Berlin, Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake

36. Le Malentendu by Albert Camus, Théâtre français de Toronto, Toronto

37. Kim’s Convenience by Ins Choi, Soulpepper Theatre Company & American Conservatory Theatre & Adam Blanshay Productions, Toronto

38. & Juliet by Max Martin et al., David and Hannah Mirvish, Toronto

39. Romeo et Juliette by Charles Gounod, Canadian Opera Company, Toronto

40. Slava’s Snowshow (2018) by Slava Polunin, Show One Productions, Toronto

41. The Flick (2019) by Annie Baker, Outside the March & Crow’s Theatre, Toronto

42. Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott, Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake

43. The Rez Sisters (2021) by Tomson Highway, Stratford Festival, Stratford

44. Wights by Liz Appel, Crow’s Theatre & the National Arts Centre, Toronto

45. Trident Moon by Anusree Roy, Crow’s Theatre & the National Arts Centre, Toronto

46. Countess Maritza by Imre Kálmán, Toronto Operetta Theatre, Toronto

47. Mahabharata, Parts 1 & 2 (2023) by Ravi Jain & Miriam Fernades, Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake

48. Bluebirds by Vern Thiessen, Theatre on the Ridge, Port Perry

49. Josiah by Charles Robertson, Thousand Miles of Bricks Productions, Toronto

50. The Ladies’ Foursome (2021) by Norm Foster, Norm Foster Theatre Festival, St. Catharines

Photo: Tom Rooney as Macduff and Tom McCamus as Macbeth in Macbeth at the Stratford Festival. © 2025 David Hou.