Stratford’s “Breathing Hole” is One for the Memory Books
STRATFORD, Ontario — Our first encounter with the mythic polar bear dominating the Stratford...
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Edmonton Fringe: Political and Physical
What to see at the Edmonton Fringe. Festivals offer theatre audiences a particular challenge:...
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SummerWorks Round-Up: Cassandra Silver Reviews 6 Shows Closing in Toronto
Review: White Man’s Indian presents a new take on the coming-of-age narrative. Darla Contois’...
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The Shaw Festival Delivers a Riotous “Androcles and the Lion”
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. — The other night Tom Pidgeon, the Ottawa Little Theatre’s longtime...
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“In Sundry Languages” Is A Feast for the Ears
Toronto Laboratory Theatre declares that its show, In Sundry Languages, “looks and feels like...
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Part 2: Part Fantasy, Part Declaration of Sovereignty: A Review of the Canadian Opera Company’s Production of “Louis Riel”
Click here to read Part I Riel’s real purpose in the opera is not to stand up for his people as...
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Part 1: Part Fantasy, Part Declaration of Sovereignty: A Review of the Canadian Opera Company’s Production of “Louis Riel”
Taking my seat at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, to watch the 2017 debut of the...
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Bakkhai at the Stratford Festival: A Translation in the Clear Key of Green
“Beginnings have their own energy, ethics, tonality, colour.” –excerpt from Anne Carson’s...
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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...
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Discipline and Perform: A Preview of Wig in a Box’s “Docile Bodies”
Adapted from Michel Foucault’s seminal text Discipline and Punish, the collaboratively-written and...
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The Future of Theatre Creation? SpiderWebShow Unveils CdnStudio
Collaboration for theatre artists across borders may become a little easier thanks to an...
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Jacqui du Toit’s “The Hottentot Venus- Untold” at Ottawa’s TACTICS
Season 3 of Ottawa’s TACTICS (Theatre Artists Collective: The Independent Series) opened with The...
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The National Ballet of Canada’s World Premiere of “Pinocchio” Sets an International Classic in a Canadian Context
The National Ballet of Canada’s 2017 world premiere of Pinocchio adds an unusual twist to the...
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“Come From Away” – New Canadian Musical on Broadway
Come From Away, a relentlessly peppy new musical by the Canadian husband-wife team David Hein and...
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Festival of Original Theatre in Toronto Presents Diverse Auditory Experimentations
The Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) is a 25-year-old annual event hosted by The Centre for...
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Orange Noyées’s “8” Addresses Pressing Issues and Fears of Today
On November 8, 2016, America elected its 45thPresident, Donald Trump, whose political forays,...
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“Sleeping Giants” Marks 35 Years of Prison Theatre by William Head on Stage
35 Years of Prison Theatre: William Head on Stage presents Sleeping Giants, a new play about The...
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In “887,” Robert Lepage Has Built a Memory Palace Out of Theatre
Robert Lepage’s autobiographical show at the Melbourne Festival, 887, is named for his childhood...
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“Concord Floral” at Canadian Stage
Concord Floral opened the 2016-2017 Canadian Stage season, yes, the same season whose programming...
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Olivier Kemeid’s “The Aeneid” at Stratford Festival
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