#Tactics

For the past 12 years, TACTICS Theatre Company has supported new local work in Ottawa. While this milestone is certainly something to celebrate, this will also be TACTICS’ final Sunset Season. Four performances from May 9-10 in LabO will help TACTICS say thank you and farewell.

If you happened across Strathcona Park without headphones last week, you might have seen four graceful figures in red moving in front of a captivated group of onlookers. Actually, the dance-theatre experience Skin Songs was a performance made whole through on-site Wi-Fi and Zoom.

A near-murder–mystery by Ottawa author and physician Melissa Yuan-Innes, Terminally Ill is playing as part of the TACTICS Development Series this weekend.

It’s a busy and beautiful May weekend, so get out there to some of the great events happening around our city.

Now that we’re done with enough April showers to bring us May flowers… and June… and July… get out there and see all the great events taking place this weekend across the city!

TACTICS presents Shorelines, written by local Ottawa artist and award-winning playwright Mishka Lavigne, from May 2 to 13 at LabO.  A story about climate change, climate inequities, friendship, and family, Shorelines is a play where memories of the past and the urgency of the present collide.

Every first Monday of the month, Apartment613 publishes the coolest #ottarts #ottjobs we hear about. All the best arts and culture gigs in our local network.

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear t-shirts, camouflage, and body armour. Some wear skirts or pants and have artistic skills that are tested by extraordinary circumstances. Playwright Sarah Waiswisz’s Heartlines demonstrates that heroism can have unlikely beginnings.

Ottawa writer Sanita Fejzić’s Blissful State of Surrender is her first play but it doesn’t seem like one. Its world premiere at GCTC is impressive for a number of reasons. It accomplishes something rather rare in the theatre — it’s a drama that tackles “heavy” topics but which also successfully delivers flashes of comedy and […]

In association with GCTC, the Theatre Artists’ Co-operative: the Independent Collective Series (TACTICS) present two performances for an optimistic start to this new year in their 2022 Mainstage Series: Blissful State of Surrender and Heartlines.

Every first Monday of the month, Apartment613 publishes the coolest #ottarts #ottjobs we hear about. All the best arts and culture gigs in our local network.

After 20 long months, the Great Canadian Theatre Company announces their five-show 2021–22 season, along with a slate of additional programming.

This week in the Future of Ottawa series, we’re taking a deep dive into Ottawa’s theatre scene—what it’s like now and where it’s headed. Read on for a guest post from Bronwyn Steinberg on the future of indie theatre in Ottawa.

Some playwrights are ahead of their time. Among them is Vishesh Abeyratne, the Ottawa-based playwright who began tackling complex intersections of systemic racism, class, and gender… in a play.