Review: (Toronto) Parfumerie
Patricia Fagan and Oliver Dennis (photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)Christmas Comedy of the Best Kindby Spencer MalthouseOK, Cupid, what if you fell in love with someone you'd never met or seen b…
Patricia Fagan and Oliver Dennis (photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)Christmas Comedy of the Best Kindby Spencer MalthouseOK, Cupid, what if you fell in love with someone you'd never met or seen b…
A Wormhole to the Bardby Jim Murchison@JimMurchisonImagine if Alice in Wonderland was about a beleaguered assistant professor who falls through a garbage pail, instead of a looking glass and…
Don't Want To Stay Stillby Cameryn Moore@camerynmooreI'm never ready for coming to ground.Ever.Why can't I be ready? Why does this still surprise and shock and dismay me? Why can I not wind …
STATEMENTFlags fly at half-mast at the National Arts Centrein honour of legendary actor Jean-Louis RouxOttawa (Canada) " It was with great sadness the National Arts Centre (NAC) today l…
Ross Petty (photo by Rachel McCaig)Holy Carp!Petty's Panto is Poised to Please Even the Most Picky of Patronsby Stuart Munro@StuartMunroTOHello friends! The holidays are once again upon us, …
Honest Picture of a Parentor Where Theatre and Therapy Meetby Christopher DouglasIn his elaborately titled play, The Girl in the Picture Tries to Hang Up the Phone, Hume Baugh tackles the mi…
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Christmas is Comingby Jim Murchison@JimMurchisonWe have had our first major snowfall in Ottawa and it was that quiet falling flaky snow that everyone thinks of as Christmas snow. This …
(photo by Gabrielle Kellock)The Choices of Cultureby Jessica YenFatima is just like any other Canadian teenage girl: she likes hanging out with her friends, gets nervous around boys and rebe…
Can we rave some more about the work of David Cooper or do we just need for you to look at this photo for Belfry's A Tender Thing (with Clare Coulter as Juliet and Peter Anderson as Romeo)? …
COC NAMES WINNERS OF ENSEMBLE STUDIO COMPETITION GALA, CENTRE STAGE: QUEBEC'S KARINE BOUCHER WINS TOP PRIZE AND AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDVocal Showcase Featured Surprise Performance by…
(Schnitzel)Wonderfully, lovably, hilariously Canadian puppetsRonnie Burkett's latest work ramps up the sillinessby Chris LaneRonnie Burkett is a true master of puppets, and with his latest w…
(photo by Jennifer Liao)Adapting Without Rulesby Gaëtan L. CharleboisARTISTIC DIRECTOR - CHRIS HANRATTYA writer and director, Chris Hanratty's first full-length play, A Thousand Word…
Good collaboration is like good sex. by TJ Dawe@TJ_DaweLately I've been fucking Harry Standjofski, a guy in Montreal I've never seen in person. My friend Julie Tamiko-Manning hooked us …
This delicious video for Winners and Losers (now playing Canadian Stage) is as quirky as the play itself and part of a concerted promotional campaign on the part of Crow's Theatre, the produ…
(photo: Andrea De Keijzer)A Dream within a Dreamby Chad DembskiFrom the opening blurred image that slowly opens "The Book of Thel" the audience is instantly brought into another world. …
Serfing the InternetAre artists becoming the slaves of new techby Gaëtan L. Charlebois@gcharleboisEvery once in a while someone in my Facebook or Twitter feeds prickles me with a link to …
Andrew Moodie, Amanda Lisman (photo by Andrée Lanthier)Stabbing at the Airby Caitlin MurphyI've always loved Othello. It's always struck me as Shakespeare's most accessible play someh…
Provocative Pinterby Estelle RosenCaleb Harrison is from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. He loves his friends and family. He tweets (@venedikted), co-manages Scrivener Creative Review (@…
Marivaux Recoveredby Cristina IovitaCristina Iovita Director, Playwright, Founder and Artistic Director of Le Théâtre de l'Utopie, student in the PhD Humanities program, Concordia Univer…
Marc Labrèche (photo by Nicola-Frank Vachon)When the Picture Starsby Beat RiceRobert Lepage never fails to visually stun Toronto audiences and successfully marry different artistic discipli…
Scott Walters and Sara-Jeanne Hosie (photo by David Cooper)Practically Adequateby Jay CattersonMary Poppins floats onto the Stanley Industrial Alliance stage as Arts Club Vancouver tries to …
Omigod I Had Funby Jim Murchison@JimMurchisonThe Orpheus season opened up with the frothy Legally Blonde The Musical. As frivolous as it appears on the surface, the themes are pretty positiv…
Landing in a Network - and a Homeby Cameryn Moore@camerynmooreI don't know exactly what makes the difference between my having a good experience in a city and a great one, but after a whirlw…