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

The one thing you should see this week: a Queen West it boy at mid-career

The one thing you should see this week: an intimate film about a powerful painter

The one thing you should see this week: a probing opera about a world-changing event