The musical follows Matilda Wormwood, a spunky, bright-minded five-year-old girl gifted with telekinesis and an ardent adoration of literature, as she wittily fights for what’s right in both her ...

So the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's co-production (with Edmonton's Citadel Theatre and Vancouver's Arts Club) of Matilda the Musical — a 2010 West End and Broadway hit — feels timely indeed.

In all, it’s the antithesis of dumbed-down kid stuff, making Matilda: The Musical subversive enough for adults to enjoy as much as any maggot out there. Click here to report a typo.

"I hadn't seen a musical for 10 years before I wrote Matilda," he says. "I couldn't afford to." Well, actually, he could. In his persona as a glam-rock dandy, Minchin fills 10,000-seaters in England.

Based on the novel by bestselling author Roald Dahl, Matilda the Musical follows a young bookworm who has the gift of telekinesis and remains strong amid mistreatment at home and school.

Review: Roald Dahl’s Matilda, The Musical, with book by Dennis Kelly and music and lyrics by Tim Minchin Theatre: Citadel’s Shoctor stage until March 17. Directed by: Daryl Cloran ...

Inspired by the twisted genius of Roald Dahl, the Tony Award-winning Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical is the captivating masterpiece from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Matilda is a little girl with ...

In its 26th year, the Grand Theatre High School Project proudly presents Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical, playing September 17 to 28 on the Spriet Stage. As the most applied-to High School ...

Matilda: The Musical, directed by Rob Ursan, is being presented at the University of Regina Riddell Centre University Theatre, March 12-14, 7 p.m. (plus at noon on Thursday and Friday).

Now on Netflix, "Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical" is just the blast of wicked fun we need right now to see out the old year and welcome in the new. She’s no ordinary child this Matilda Wormwood.