“We lived in a shelter downtown, and Honest Ed’s was the only store I knew”: Shania Twain on her years dreaming big in Toronto

Before she became a global phenomenon, Shania Twain was flipping burgers, hawking jeans and fronting cover bands in Toronto. Today, the queen of country pop is touring the world with a new album, but she’s still nostalgic about the city that made her

At 80, John Irving still has plenty to say: about Trump, about abortion, about tattoos, about everything

The author's latest—and longest—book reflects a lifetime of thinking on love, family and sexual politics

Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest

Interview with a reluctant starchitect

Spotlight: Shay Mitchell is the breakout star of television’s trashiest teen drama

Spotlight: Kristen Thomson depicts a marriage gone pear-shaped in her powerful new play Someone Else

Spotlight: theatrical virtuoso Daniel MacIvor exposes a bitterly funny slice of life in Was Spring

Best of Fall #10: Don McKellar and Bob Martin find the funny in depression in their new TV series

Best of Fall #3: Rising director Brendan Healy makes theatre exciting again with Jean Genet’s psychosexual thriller The Maids

50 Reasons To Love Toronto: No. 12, Louise Pitre’s musical theatre renaissance

The one thing you should see this week: the tumultuous career of our 18th prime minister, in opera form

The one thing you should see this week: the Canadian precursor to today’s reality TV craze

Bull’s Eye: Peter Sibbald captures the gritty subculture of southern Ontario rodeos in his superb all-access series, Roughstock

The one thing you should see this week: a film about a prison with a storied musical past

The one thing you should see this week: a ballet about a bad boy who gets his comeuppance

The one thing you should see this week: a musical about a boy who just wanted to dance