Canada Archives - Page 7 of 15

“Albumen”: A Living Hotblooded Art Piece

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 10th Apr 2019 | Acting, Canada, Immersive Theatre, Review

The Arts Court Theatre is the perfect intimate space for the experimental performance piece...

“Come From Away”–New Canadian Musical On Broadway

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 9th Apr 2019 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review

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

“Love And Information”: An Excellent Young Director Extracts Order From Churchill’s Contemporary Chaos

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 8th Apr 2019 | Canada, Review

A talented young director brings order to Caryl Churchill’s purposely chaotic vision of the nature...

“Love And Human Remains”: An Excellent Staging Gives Life To A Dated Play

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 1st Apr 2019 | Canada, Review

The title of the play (Love And Human Remains) by Brad Fraser, written in 1989 and currently...

“Love And Human Remains”: Excellent Production Explores Loneliness In The Modern World

Posted by Rajka Stefanovska | 29th Mar 2019 | Canada, Review

Love And Human Remains explores the everlasting questions of human existence–who we are, what we...

“Behaviour” Is Essential And Traumatic-Socially Conscious Theatre At Its Peak!

Posted by Ryan Pepper | 26th Mar 2019 | Canada, Review

It isn’t easy to review a play like Behaviour, written by Ottawa playwright Darrah Teitel and...

A Feminist Documentary Play From Toronto: “Grace”

Posted by Berna Ataoğlu | 25th Mar 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Gender

Grace is one of two daughters in an educated family living in Canada. She loves her parents and...

Stéphanie Turple’s “Un-Countried”: How Regimes And Mindsets Change

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 18th Mar 2019 | Acting, Canada, Review, Theatre and Politics

Un-Countried, written by Stéphanie Turple, and directed by Kevin Orr shows what happens when a...

Ravi Jain’s “Prince Hamlet” Breathes New Life Into The Bard

Posted 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...

Robert Lepage’s “887” at the Hong Kong Arts Festival

Posted by Clement Lee | 4th Mar 2019 | Canada, Festivals, Hong Kong, Review

Theatre as a memory vessel is nothing new to contemporary theatre. There is a reason why types of...

Undercurrents Festival: Bark And Lots Of Bite

Posted 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...

Ravi Jain’s “Prince Hamlet”: A Meta-theatrical Reversal Of Disability And Gender

Posted by Abhimanyu Acharya and Sheetala Bhat | 2nd Mar 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Disability

Why Not Theatre’s Prince Hamlet, adapted and directed by Ravi Jain, is a performative exploration of the relationship between aesthetics and disability. Prince Hamlet is a gender-bent, bilingual play which uses English and American Sign Language (ASL).

“Authentic Or Fake?” Calithumpian Theatre Collective Stages Stephen Sachs’s “Bakersfield Mist”

Posted by Abhimanyu Acharya | 26th Feb 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Art

The play is a good mix of entertainment and profundity and asks questions that can certainly be food for thought for the audience.

Lauren Gunderson’s “The Revolutionists”: Liberté, Égalité, And Sororité

Posted 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...

Review: Who Needs To Be Reminded “We Are Not Alone”?

Posted by Christine H. Tran | 20th Feb 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Politics

“I want to believe,” declared Agent Fox Mulder in the 1998 television pilot for The X-Files. Two...

At “The Mountaintop” There Is Doubt, Uncertainty And Humanity: Katori Hall’s Play About King’s Final Night Before His Assassination

Posted 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...

The First Middle Eastern Theatre Photo Exhibition At The University Of Toronto, Spring 2019

Posted by Rahaf Fasheh | 11th Feb 2019 | Canada, News

On January 11, 2019, the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of...

“Lungs” A Piece Of Stripped Down Theatre With A Fully Packed Message

Posted 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...

To Belong Or Not To Belong? AHSC Stages David Ives’s “The Interrogation Of Baruch De Spinoza”

Posted by Abhimanyu Acharya | 1st Feb 2019 | Canada, News, Theatre and Religion

The University of Western Ontario’s Arts and Humanities Student Council (AHSC) recently staged its latest production The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza written by David Ives. The play was performed at TAP Centre for Creativity at London, Ontario, Canada, and was directed by Julia Sebastian.