What is the price for living in the past? Home, I’m Darling explores the ideas of feminism and gender roles as it takes us on the journey of a couple who decides to live in current day England as though they were living in the 1950s.
Dorian Gray proclaims, “I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure.” If you’re looking for happiness and pleasure, look no further than Sock ‘n’ Buskin’s production of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Normally this is where we say “It’s that time again!” as Show Tune Showdown, the fundraiser competition amongst some of Ottawa’s best musical theatre companies, fills the seats of Meridian Theatres at Centrepointe every April…but this year is set to be the final one! We guess we should instead say “This is your last chance to catch one of Ottawa’s epic musical theatre events of the year!”
It’s been 25 years since the first Lawyer Play, which Janice Payne, senior partner with Nelligen O’Brien Payne, says was a memorable experience.
Vierge is a riotous spectacle of love, secrets and uncertainty! The show, which opened on Thursday, the 20th of March, introduces sixteen-year-old Divine (Espoir Segbeaya), who wants to make friends her age. To accomplish this, she starts a Bible study youth group in her church’s basement.
Ottawa’s Youth Infringement Festival (YIF)’s success can be attributed to its longevity–this will be its 27th year running–and its commitment to creating spaces for youth-led creativity.
Silent Sky, written by Lauren Gunderson, brings us the “almost-true” story of the women who worked in the early days of astronomy and are fundamental to our collective understanding of the cosmos. Three Sisters Theatre Co. focuses on telling meaningful stories about women—and this is a great one.
This week, Three Sisters Theatre Company opens their latest production, Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson. Brian Carroll interviewed producer and actor Robin Guy.
One of Ottawa’s premier community theatre groups has announced its next season—and there’s a lot to be excited about. Orpheus Musical Theatre is one of North America’s oldest and Canada’s longest-running community theatre organizations. It hasn’t been around this long because of luck—it’s because it consistently puts on quality shows. So here’s what’s coming up next season.
Turn up the heat Ottawa, Broadway is getting sexy with Iron Cabaret’s presentation of Bawdy Broadway Bodies, a sultry cabaret showcasing the best and brightest of local Ottawa talent.
To say I was excited to see The Shawshank Redemption on stage is like saying Ottawa got a little snow in February.
Orpheus Musical Theatre is showing how a great jukebox musical should be done with the worldwide community theatre premiere of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.
Glenys Marshall and Maggie Harder make up the comedy duo Small Fish, which has been taking the Ottawa arts community by storm. Their mission? To create a space where art meets activism, for and by marginalized communities.
The Children is a black comedy by Lucy Kirkwood that uses a major nuclear disaster as a plot device to explore a wide range of moral and ethical issues. It is a fine theatrical experience that poses lots of tough questions, but also entertains.
The future of our world in the context of natural or man-made disasters is an uneasy topic of discussion. What could these disasters unveil, not only for our communities, but for the people and relationships we hold dear? Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children explores all of this and more, playing at the Gladstone Theatre from Feb. 19-March 8.
