THE BELOVED TALE OF THE NUTCRACKER COMES TO LIFE AT THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE, AND IS ALMOST SOLD-OUT! November 22, 2018 – OTTAWA (Canada) – This cherished NAC tradition is back by popular demand, and there are very few tickets available! November 28 to December 2, the Alberta Ballet performs its sumptuous production of The …
— Par Selim Lander — Ina Césaire, née en 1942, quatrième enfant d’Aimé et Suzanne Césaire, est connue en dehors de ses œuvres littéraires pour ses travaux ethnographiques sur la Martinique. Mémoires d’îles peut être considérée comme un sous-produit de ces derniers, tant l’auteur s’y entend à faire vivre des personnages plus vrais que nature, …
Chasing Champions: The Sam Langford Story By Jacob Sampson A Ship’s Company (Parrsboro, NS) production in association with Eastern Front Theatre (Halifax) at the NAC Azrieli Studio Directed by Ron Jenkins He’s blind and impoverished, a forgotten figure in a Harlem care home. Yet there’s something resilient about him. An element of ruefulness may …
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman Music by special arrangement with Sony/ATV Publishing Adapted for the stage by Jeremy Sams Based on the MGM motion picture Licensed script adapted by Ray Roderick Directed by Jenn Donnelly From a child’s perspective, a magical flying/floating car that saves its owners from …
The latest play from Carleton University’s Sock ‘n’ Buskin Theatre Company is the Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing, set not in Renaissance Italy but in 1970s Ontario cottage country in a bid to explore Shakespeare’s more eternal themes and the balance of seriousness with plenty of frivolity and dance parties. The play captures …
Alex Alpharaoh has brought WET: A DACAmented Journey, his moving, comic, and political one-man show, to ArtsEmerson in Boston at the end of his first cross-country tour. This autobiographical piece could not be more timely given the strong animosity against Latinos, particularly the poor, that exists in the Trump administration. The work, directed by Brisa …
What we grasp from this hypnotic evening presented by the Alonzo King Lines Ballet performing a piece called Sutra, is the sense that this group is essentially a laboratory where references from the entire world of dance are beautifully melded together to enhance an intense dialogue of smoothly orchestrated corporeal performance.
Chasing Champions: The Sam Langford Story by Nova Scotia playwright Jacob Sampson (who also stars) and directed by Ron Jenkins is very much a “best _____ you’ve never heard of story,” the tale of a young boxer who was never properly given his chance to be the champion of the world. The fact that the …
Chasing Champions: The Sam Langford Story By Jacob Sampson A Ship’s Company (Parrsboro, NS) production in association with Eastern Front Theatre (Halifax) at the NAC Azrieli Studio Directed by Ron Jenkins Sam Langford was named to the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1955, one year before he died. …