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Stratford’s “Breathing Hole” is One for the Memory Books

Posted by Jamie Portman | 29th Aug 2017 | Canada, Festivals

STRATFORD, Ontario — Our first encounter with the mythic polar bear dominating the Stratford...

Edmonton Fringe: Political and Physical

Posted by Lisa Jeans | 27th Aug 2017 | Canada, Festivals

What to see at the Edmonton Fringe. Festivals offer theatre audiences a particular challenge:...

SummerWorks Round-Up: Cassandra Silver Reviews 6 Shows Closing in Toronto

Posted by Cassandra Silver | 17th Aug 2017 | Canada, Documentary Theatre, Festivals, News

Review: White Man’s Indian presents a new take on the coming-of-age narrative. Darla Contois’...

The Shaw Festival Delivers a Riotous “Androcles and the Lion”

Posted by Jamie Portman | 8th Aug 2017 | Canada

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. — The other night Tom Pidgeon, the Ottawa Little Theatre’s longtime...

“In Sundry Languages” Is A Feast for the Ears

Posted by Heather Fitzimmons-Frey | 2nd Aug 2017 | Canada, Transcultural Collaborations

Toronto Laboratory Theatre declares that its show, In Sundry Languages, “looks and feels like...

Part 2: Part Fantasy, Part Declaration of Sovereignty: A Review of the Canadian Opera Company’s Production of “Louis Riel”

Posted by Adam Gaudry | 22nd Jul 2017 | Canada, Theatre and Opera

Click here to read Part I Riel’s real purpose in the opera is not to stand up for his people as...

Part 1: Part Fantasy, Part Declaration of Sovereignty: A Review of the Canadian Opera Company’s Production of “Louis Riel”

Posted by Adam Gaudry | 20th Jul 2017 | Canada, Theatre and Opera

Taking my seat at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, to watch the 2017 debut of the...

Bakkhai at the Stratford Festival: A Translation in the Clear Key of Green

Posted by Megan De Roover | 14th Jul 2017 | Canada, North America, Translation

“Beginnings have their own energy, ethics, tonality, colour.” –excerpt from Anne Carson’s...

Review of Sansluxe Dance Performance

Posted by Brendan Irish | 30th Jun 2017 | Canada, Theatre and Dance

Sansluxe, meaning “without luxury” in French, is a collaborative space that Montreal dancers in the city’s renowned gay village can use for the small fee of $40.00 per year. In February, dancers from the Sansluxe collective...

Discipline and Perform: A Preview of Wig in a Box’s “Docile Bodies”

Posted by Willow White | 27th May 2017 | Adaptation, Canada, Devised Theatre, Theatre and Dance

Adapted from Michel Foucault’s seminal text Discipline and Punish, the collaboratively-written and...

The Future of Theatre Creation? SpiderWebShow Unveils CdnStudio

Posted by Rachel Offer | 19th May 2017 | Canada, Transmedia

Collaboration for theatre artists across borders may become a little easier thanks to an...

Jacqui du Toit’s “The Hottentot Venus- Untold” at Ottawa’s TACTICS

Posted by Brie McFarlane | 29th Apr 2017 | Canada, Theatre and Gender

Season 3 of Ottawa’s TACTICS (Theatre Artists Collective: The Independent Series) opened with The...

The National Ballet of Canada’s World Premiere of “Pinocchio” Sets an International Classic in a Canadian Context

Posted by Megan De Roover | 8th Apr 2017 | Canada, Theatre and Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences

The National Ballet of Canada’s 2017 world premiere of Pinocchio adds an unusual twist to the...

“Come From Away” – New Canadian Musical on Broadway

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Mar 2017 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review

Come From Away, a relentlessly peppy new musical by the Canadian husband-wife team David Hein and...

Festival of Original Theatre in Toronto Presents Diverse Auditory Experimentations

Posted by KaiChieh Tu | 10th Mar 2017 | Canada, Dramaturgy, Festivals

The Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) is a 25-year-old annual event hosted by The Centre for...

Orange Noyées’s “8” Addresses Pressing Issues and Fears of Today

Posted by Yana Meerzon | 13th Feb 2017 | Canada, Theatre and Politics

On November 8, 2016, America elected its 45thPresident, Donald Trump, whose political forays,...

“Sleeping Giants” Marks 35 Years of Prison Theatre by William Head on Stage

Posted by The Theatre Times | 30th Oct 2016 | Canada, News

35 Years of Prison Theatre: William Head on Stage presents Sleeping Giants, a new play about The...

In “887,” Robert Lepage Has Built a Memory Palace Out of Theatre

Posted by Sarah Balkin | 22nd Oct 2016 | Canada, Directing, Review

Robert Lepage’s autobiographical show at the Melbourne Festival, 887, is named for his childhood...

“Concord Floral” at Canadian Stage

Posted by Shelley Liebembuk | 6th Oct 2016 | Canada, Review

Concord Floral opened the 2016-2017 Canadian Stage season, yes, the same season whose programming...

Olivier Kemeid’s “The Aeneid” at Stratford Festival

Posted by Yana Meerzon | 16th Sep 2016 | Canada, Festivals, Review

In today’s political, economic and social climate, with mass migration turning into a new norm, it...

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Stratford’s “Breathing Hole” is One for the Memory Books

Edmonton Fringe: Political and Physical

SummerWorks Round-Up: Cassandra Silver Reviews 6 Shows Closing in Toronto

The Shaw Festival Delivers a Riotous “Androcles and the Lion”

“In Sundry Languages” Is A Feast for the Ears

Part 2: Part Fantasy, Part Declaration of Sovereignty: A Review of the Canadian Opera Company’s Production of “Louis Riel”

Part 1: Part Fantasy, Part Declaration of Sovereignty: A Review of the Canadian Opera Company’s Production of “Louis Riel”

Bakkhai at the Stratford Festival: A Translation in the Clear Key of Green

Review of Sansluxe Dance Performance

Discipline and Perform: A Preview of Wig in a Box’s “Docile Bodies”

The Future of Theatre Creation? SpiderWebShow Unveils CdnStudio

Jacqui du Toit’s “The Hottentot Venus- Untold” at Ottawa’s TACTICS

The National Ballet of Canada’s World Premiere of “Pinocchio” Sets an International Classic in a Canadian Context

“Come From Away” – New Canadian Musical on Broadway

Festival of Original Theatre in Toronto Presents Diverse Auditory Experimentations

Orange Noyées’s “8” Addresses Pressing Issues and Fears of Today

“Sleeping Giants” Marks 35 Years of Prison Theatre by William Head on Stage

In “887,” Robert Lepage Has Built a Memory Palace Out of Theatre

“Concord Floral” at Canadian Stage

Olivier Kemeid’s “The Aeneid” at Stratford Festival

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