Category: Arts News

Upcoming performances at THE GLADSTONE

Upcoming performances at THE GLADSTONE

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Tuesdays with Morrie by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom, from the best selling memoir by Mitch Albom March 10-19

Will Somers new solo show written and performed by Pierre Brault, March 24-April 2

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf legendary drama by Edward Albee, April 7-16

Staff Room award-winning Canadian play by Joan Burrows, April 21-30  My Fair Zombie live staging of local musical feature film by Brett Kelly and Trevor Payer

The Marvelous Wonderettes award-winning jukebox musical by Roger Bean, May 11-14

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, award-sweeping Broadway megahit
by Christopher Durang, May 20-28

Shows coming to The Gladstone: Love Letters and Romantic Poetry

Shows coming to The Gladstone: Love Letters and Romantic Poetry

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Love Letters
by A.R. Gurney
directed by Teri Loretto-Valentik
starring Pierre Brault and Lucy van Oldenbarneveld
January 29 to February 6, 2016 (Preview January 28)
Tuesday-Saturday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.

Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III are childhood friends who begin a correspondence that will last 50 years. As their lives take very different paths, they share with each other their hopes and dreams, ambitions and disappointments, victories and defeats through their notes, cards and letters.

"A.R. Gurney’s deceptively simple 1988 epistolary two-hander, Love Letters, is that rare work whose emotional richness requires no embellishment in order to become a full-bodied theatrical experience." —The Hollywood Reporter

 

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Undercurrents complete programme. Dates and times later…

Undercurrents complete programme. Dates and times later…

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Undercurrents: theatre below the mainstream (February 10–20. 2016)
& Arts Court Theatre / www.artscourt.ca

Programme:

A MAN WALKS INTO A BAR 
by Rachel Blair (dir. David Matheson)
– Patrons’ Pick and Best of Fest at The Toronto Fringe Festival
FORSTNER & FILLISTER PRESENT: FORSTNER & FILLISTER IN: FORSTNER & FILLISTER
by Will Somers & David Benedict Brown (dir. Melanie Karin Brown)
– Premiered at Fresh Meat: DIY Theatre Festival (2014)
GETTING TO ROOM TEMPERATURE 
by Arthur Milner (and directed by A. Milner)
– A world premiere

 

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CCC theatre awards for 2014-15.

CCC theatre awards for 2014-15.

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Capital Critics Circle announces sixteenth annual theatre awards and adds Tartan award for technical excellence

OTTAWA, November 23, 2015 – The Capital Critics Circle today announced the winners of the sixteenth annual theatre awards for plays presented in English in the National Capital Region during the 2014-2015 season. The winners are:

Best professional production:

Stuff Happens by David Hare, directed by David Ferry, National Arts Centre English Theatre.

Best community theatre production:

Avenue Q, book by Jeff Whitty, music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Mark, directed by Michael Gareau, musical direction by John McGovern, choreography by Alison Szkwarek, Toto Too Theatre.

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Cineplex Front Row Centre Events Expand : Series Includes Productions by Kenneth Branagh

Cineplex Front Row Centre Events Expand : Series Includes Productions by Kenneth Branagh

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 Cineplex Entertainment (“Cineplex”) and Front Row Centre Events announced today the expansion of its theatrical programming offering with seven new stage presentations this winter. Upcoming events will feature performances by actor-director Kenneth Branagh in a new series called Plays at the Garrick, the 120th anniversary production of The Importance of Being Earnest by the London Vaudeville Theatre, as well as the latest world-class performances from National Theatre Live. The complete line-up of new stage offerings includes:

  • The Winter’s Tale from Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company – Kicking off the inaugural season of Plays at The Garrick comes this live performance of Shakespeare’s timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption, starring Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench (November 26, 2015)
  • The Importance of Being Earnest from London Vaudeville Theatre – Audiences will have the opportunity to see Oscar Wilde’s much-loved masterpiece starring acclaimed actor David Suchet (Poirot) as the formidable Lady Bracknell (December 3, 2015)
  • Jane Eyre from National Theatre Live – A re-imagining of Charlotte Brontë’s acclaimed masterpiece (December 10, 2015)
  • Les Liaisons Dangereuses from National Theatre Live – Donmar Warehouse’s highly anticipated new production (January 28, 2016)

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Theatre Criticism in the Changing Digital World. Theatre Department, U of Ottawa. OPEN DISCUSSION….all are welcome.

Theatre Criticism in the Changing Digital World. Theatre Department, U of Ottawa. OPEN DISCUSSION….all are welcome.

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Today theatre criticism faces many challenges: in the era of open internet writing the practice of theatre criticism in Canada and worldwide is rapidly changing. It becomes more experimental, reflecting the style of journalistic blogosphere not mainstream criticism currently published in official newspapers and magazines. Who is a true benefactor of such criticism – is it general public,  theatre companies, individual artists, or writers/bloggers/critics themselves, who often use digital writing to express their personal opinion in public, often not in the forms of professional theatre criticism but as self-promotion? 

TIME AND LOCATION / HEURE ET LIEU

November 20, 2015, 11:30am to 1p.m. ; Room 310 / Le 20 novembre 2015, de 11h30 à 13h, local 310.

Theatre department at the University of Ottawa/Département d’Études théâtrales, U d’Ottawa. .

Participants:

•             Patrick Langston (The Ottawa Citizen)

•             Brianna McFarlane (New Ottawa Critics, an association of emerging theatre journalists)

•             Kat Fournier (Capital Critics Circle)

(This debate will be in English.)

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Tomson Highway Wins 2015 Herbert Whittaker-CTCA Award: Cree Playwright Honoured For Distinguished Contribution to Canadian Theatre

Tomson Highway Wins 2015 Herbert Whittaker-CTCA Award: Cree Playwright Honoured For Distinguished Contribution to Canadian Theatre

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Tomson Highway, 2009 file photo “Northern Life.ca”. 

http://www.tomsonhighway.com/biography.html

Tomson Highway, playwright, musician, novelist and former artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts, has been chosen as the winner of the 2015 Herbert Whittaker-CTCA Award. The award, which is given by the Canadian Theatre Critics Association, honours individuals for their outstanding long-term contributions to Canadian theatre.

Named after the distinguished Canadian theatre critic and author Herbert Whittaker (1910-2006), the award has been given out since 1975. Past winners have included playwrights Judith Thompson and George F. Walker, Shaw Festival artistic director Jackie Maxwell, director Robert Lepage and puppeteer Ronnie Burkett.

“Oh deer!” responded Highway by email when he learned he had won. He then hastened to add: “You have to understand that I do come from a hunting and gathering society.”

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Opera Lyra closes the curtain! The end of an era in Ottawa.

Opera Lyra closes the curtain! The end of an era in Ottawa.

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Rosemary Thompson.  14 octobre 2015 – OTTAWA (Canada) – C’est avec une grande tristesse que le Centre national des Arts a appris aujourd’hui la cessation des activités d’Opéra Lyra. Le CNA travaillait depuis plus de 20 ans en étroite collaboration avec la compagnie, qui s’était fièrement acquis la réputation de présenter d’excellentes productions dans la région de la capitale nationale.

« Pendant de nombreuses années, Opéra Lyra a connu des succès artistiques, particulièrement sous le leadership de son directeur général actuel, John Peter (Jeep) Jeffries. L’organisation a formé de nombreux jeunes chanteurs qui ont accédé à la scène internationale, et a connu certains succès au chapitre des ventes, en particulier avec la production de Carmen en 2013 », a déclaré Christopher Deacon, directeur administratif de l’Orchestre du CNA. «Nous savons toute l’ardeur qu’ont mis la direction et le conseil d’administration d’Opéra Lyra à maintenir la compagnie sur les rails. C’est un jour extrêmement triste pour les arts de la scène à Ottawa. »

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