Spotlight

Spotlight: Tanis Rideout’s debut novel is the season’s most buzzed-about book

Spotlight: angsty synthpop band Metric has one foot on Ossington and one in Hollywood

Spotlight: John Irving’s new novel In One Person is an epic tale of bisexual bawdiness

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

Spotlight: the National Ballet’s newest prima ballerina leaps from playing the chicken to dancing the lead

Spotlight: Dallas Green has evolved from hardcore rocker to sensitive troubadour who fills soft-seat theatres

Spotlight: Sebastian Pigott beats the Canadian Idol curse on Being Erica and Bomb Girls

Spotlight: Sarah Gadon is a model of restraint in David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method

Spotlight: Actress Blythe Wilson brings brassiness and a big voice to Mary Poppins at the Princess of Wales Theatre

Liane Balaban dreams about tomorrow in the docudrama The Future Is Now!

Renaissance Man: Colm Feore channels a 15th-century zealot and a comic book baddy in two flashy new gigs

Blonde Ambition: Charlotte Sullivan courts controversy as Marilyn Monroe in The Kennedys