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Sep 12, 2019

'Emergency Climate Musical' -- James Gordon sings us a way out of ecological despair

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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

Jul 20, 2019

Highlights from the Hamilton Fringe Festival

Doreen Nicoll

There are over 50 companies offering up musicals, dance, comedies, magic shows, dramas and family entertainment in more than 400 performances.

Blog

Jul 14, 2019

New musical portrays false hope of the American dream

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

Apr 16, 2019

Five decades of creation and struggle at Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille

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

Nov 6, 2018

Sex ed through social action theatre

Talking Radical Radio

Shira Taylor and Lauren Chang talk about the work of the group Sex Education by Theatre.

Blog

Oct 26, 2018

Indigenous theatre productions celebrate grandmothers

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

Aug 17, 2018

Cultural appropriation sees two Robert Lepage productions cancelled

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

Jul 30, 2017

'Langston Hughes vs. Joe McCarthy' should be touring the country

Doreen Nicoll

The Hamilton Fringe production's exploration of art and symbolism in the McCarthy era resonates with our present political moment.

Blog

Jul 23, 2017

Open the Lace Curtains a must see at the Hamilton Fringe Festival

Doreen Nicoll

Marianne Daly's one-woman show about a Catholic family's secrets is one of many wonderful shows at the annual festival.

Photos

Nov 17, 2016

Casting Othello as a white woman speaks to the marginalization and racism at Queen's

rabble staff

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.

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