Columnists
June Chua
| "The Monkiest King" will be broadcast for the first time on August 29 on the CBC radio show "Saturday Afternoon at the Opera with Ben Heppner." |
Blog
Doreen Nicoll
| What The Fest?! is Hamilton's online version of its annual fringe festival. Virtual plays can be wonderful, but only when there's good material. |
Podcast
Victoria Fenner
| Gordon, a singer-songwriter and Guelph city councillor, premiered his new climate crisis musical in Barrie last Friday. A conversation and lots of music! |
Blog
Doreen Nicoll
| There are over 50 companies offering up musicals, dance, comedies, magic shows, dramas and family entertainment in more than 400 performances. |
Blog
Doreen Nicoll
| "The Promised Land" is a moving and timely show that takes audiences on a journey across America through novelist John Steinbeck's personal and artistic musings. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| A gorgeous, nostalgic new book marks the 50th birthday of Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille. The pastiche quality of the book also reflects the collective emphasis in the institution's origins. |
Podcast
Scott Neigh
| Shira Taylor and Lauren Chang talk about the work of the group Sex Education by Theatre. |
Blog
Penney Kome
| Calgarians had a chance to see two pieces of Indigenous theatre on consecutive nights recently, in which artists addressed painful subjects with humour and respect. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| Two of Robert Lepage's shows were cancelled: SLAV, while in production in Montreal, and Kanata, a collaboration with Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil in Paris. |
Blog
Doreen Nicoll
| The Hamilton Fringe production's exploration of art and symbolism in the McCarthy era resonates with our present political moment. |
Blog
Doreen Nicoll
| Marianne Daly's one-woman show about a Catholic family's secrets is one of many wonderful shows at the annual festival. |
Blog
Evelyna Ekoko-Kay
| Even after cancelling the production, to defend its choice the directors referenced theatre's history of blackface and a 2011 Berlin production that starred a white, female Othello in a gorilla suit. |