By Patrick Langston September 7, 2018 . first posted on Artsfile. Lydia Riding and Attila Clemann in a scene from Kate Hennig’s The Virgin Queen. Photo: Andrew Alexander We can’t get enough of the Tudors, can we? From movies and historical fiction to the television series The Tudors, the tumultuous times of Henry VIII …
Dans Métier critique, l’essayiste et blogueuse Catherine Voyer-Léger insiste sur l’importance de la responsabilité partagée dans le mal-être de l’espace critique actuel. Les milieux culturels autant que les artistes qui y gravitent, tout en passant par les grands patrons médiatiques et ceux qu’ils dirigent – les critiques eux-mêmes –, tout le monde a sa responsabilité …
Take note: Lesandra Dodson, Crazy Smooth, Floorplay at the new dance centre on Daly Ave. Thu Sep 27 2018 at 06:30 pm Ottawa Dance Directive / Centre de danse contemporaine, 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6E2, Ottawa, Canada
Cloudburst, Toto Too Theatre’s latest offering is a funny, profane, warm-hearted play about the enduring love between two elderly women in the dimming twilight of their lives. An award-winning play from Nova Scotia dramatist Thom Fitzgerald, it is a touching but clear-eyed character study that focuses on a seldom-visited aspect of the gay culture …
By Thom Fitzgerald, TotoToo Theatre. Directed by Sarah Hearn Stella and Dot have loved each other for 31 years. Now in their 70s, they are threatened with separation when Dot’s granddaughter decides that “for her own good” Grandma should be moved to a retirement/nursing home, which also handles final arrangements when death comes knocking.
Animée par Hugues Beaudoin-Dumouchel, et dans le cadre de Théâtre Action, la rencontre a dévoilé les titres et les résumés des pièces et des extraits qui seront mis en lecture par huit compagnies professionnelles de partout en province, du 21 au 23 septembre prochains, à La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins. La programmation se distingue par …
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. — Nearly a century ago, Winnie-the-Pooh creator A.A. Milne wrote a now-forgotten one-act play called The Man In The Bowler Hat. It dealt with the disruption of a conventional middle-class household by a sequence of melodramatic events that in performance could be done for real or, more commonly, take on the texture of …
The 2018-19 theatre season is now beginning and the Capital Critics Circle hopes to bring you a wide variety of reviews touching all the theatres in Ottawa (professional and community), as well as performances from elsewhere in Canada and around the world. We will also focus on the dance programme at the National Arts Centre, …
par Janine Bailly (Madinin-art, 28 août L’impromptu est un genre théâtral qui se doit d’être spontané et éphémère. L’impromptu est aussi quelque chose que l’on fait « sur le champ, sans préméditation ». Est-ce le hasard seul qui a voulu que se nomment « Impromptus » les manifestations courtes offertes à treize heures, au jour le jour, dont …
Pierre Brault’s newest work stands to rank among his best solo pieces.” –Patrick Langston, ARTSFILE see Ryan Pepper’s review as well on the capitalcriticscircle.com http://capitalcriticscircle.com/last-sparatan-wonderful-performance-pierre-brault-one-man-romp-greek-history/ Pierre Brault. September 18–29: How important is art to a society? Are artists better at interpreting and preserving history than historians? Multi award-winning actor and playwright Pierre Brault, creator …