Stratford’s “Breathing Hole” is One for the Memory Books
STRATFORD, Ontario — Our first encounter with the mythic polar bear dominating the Stratford...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 29th Aug 2017 | Canada, Festivals
STRATFORD, Ontario — Our first encounter with the mythic polar bear dominating the Stratford...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Jeans | 27th Aug 2017 | Canada, Festivals
What to see at the Edmonton Fringe. Festivals offer theatre audiences a particular challenge:...
Read MorePosted 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’...
Read MorePosted by Jamie Portman | 8th Aug 2017 | Canada
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. — The other night Tom Pidgeon, the Ottawa Little Theatre’s longtime...
Read MorePosted by Heather Fitzimmons-Frey | 2nd Aug 2017 | Canada, Transcultural Collaborations
Toronto Laboratory Theatre declares that its show, In Sundry Languages, “looks and feels like...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Megan De Roover | 14th Jul 2017 | Canada, North America, Translation
“Beginnings have their own energy, ethics, tonality, colour.” –excerpt from Anne Carson’s...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Rachel Offer | 19th May 2017 | Canada, Transmedia
Collaboration for theatre artists across borders may become a little easier thanks to an...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 13th Feb 2017 | Canada, Theatre and Politics
On November 8, 2016, America elected its 45thPresident, Donald Trump, whose political forays,...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Balkin | 22nd Oct 2016 | Canada, Directing, Review
Robert Lepage’s autobiographical show at the Melbourne Festival, 887, is named for his childhood...
Read MorePosted by Shelley Liebembuk | 6th Oct 2016 | Canada, Review
Concord Floral opened the 2016-2017 Canadian Stage season, yes, the same season whose programming...
Read MorePosted 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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