The most ambitious blockbusters in the year that Canadian theatre companies rebuilt after pandemic shutdowns, as chosen by J. Kelly Nestruck and Glenn Sumi
James Baldwin gospel play gets the musical treatment as a choir enlivens the action with song, while the principals work away to capture the tragedy’s darker emotions
In the two Shaw productions, helmed by visiting director Selma Dimitrijevic, each performance’s casts are planned in advance and kept secret from ticket-buyers