Well-Executed “Waitress” Hampered by Poor Sound
How do you maim a perfectly good musical? Run the show through an abysmally tuned sound system in...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 2nd Feb 2020 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Film
How do you maim a perfectly good musical? Run the show through an abysmally tuned sound system in...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 17th Dec 2019 | Acting, Canada, Review
“We are women who do what must be done” so says the cigarette-puffing, mahjong-addicted...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 21st Nov 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Gender
Oleanna, David Mamet’s then-startling play about sexual harassment and power dynamics, debuted in...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 18th Nov 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Politics
You think you have a handle on the messy business of appropriation? Then you haven’t seen Kat...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 8th Oct 2019 | Canada, Review, Transcultural Collaborations
No two ways about it: Opening night of Marie Clements’ play The Unnatural and Accidental Women at...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 20th Jul 2019 | Acting, Adaptation, Canada, Review
Has A Company of Fools rediscovered its mojo? After a series of hits and misses, including last...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 3rd Jul 2019 | Canada, Festivals, Ottawa Fringe 2019, Review
These performances were reviewed on June 16. The Ottawa Fringe Festival continues until June 23 at...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 17th Jun 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Politics
When U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence lauded Donald Trump’s pro-life stance during his recent visit...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 5th Jun 2019 | Canada, Essay, Transmedia
An abandoned high school in the village of Farrellton, Que., just north of Wakefield, seems an...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 22nd Apr 2019 | Canada, Review
Life will be different this time,” says young, hopeful Marie-Joseph Angélique at the beginning of...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 17th Mar 2019 | Acting, Canada, Review, Theatre and Gender
Just when you thought no one could possibly find a fresh interpretation of Hamlet, along come...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 4th Mar 2019 | Canada, Festivals, News
Raising Stanley/Life with Tulia Hard to fathom, but there are actually people who aren’t mad about...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 26th Feb 2019 | Canada, Review
Marie Antoinette’s wig could be a play unto itself. An eye-grabber in the Three Sisters Theatre...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 12th Feb 2019 | Canada, Review
One of the first things we learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop, Katori...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 5th Feb 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Science
What do you do when you’re rehearsing a show that has no set, no props, no costume changes, and no...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 23rd Jan 2019 | Canada, Management, News
Eric Coates is the artistic director of the Great Canadian Theatre Company. Now into his seventh...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 18th Nov 2018 | Canada, Immersive Theatre, Review
There’s not much on the stage. Three bathtubs, a metal dress form and shower head hanging above...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 29th Oct 2018 | Canada, News, Theatre and Disability
When Silence: Mabel And Alexander Graham Bell opens at the NAC, it will mark a significant...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 18th Oct 2018 | Canada, Review
Ultimately, we’re all orphans, aren’t we? Sure, we carve out a place in the world, cultivate...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 24th Sep 2018 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Gender
We can’t get enough of the Tudors, can we? From movies and historical fiction to the television...
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