REVIEWS

OTTAWA Kitsune is the newest brainchild from the creators of Kimiko , a past hit at the Ottawa Fringe Festival. Part storytelling, part...

OTTAWA Lexi Wolfe in After Shakespeare . Photo courtesy of the Ottawa Fringe Festival. There are very limited chances left to see Slade...

OTTAWA Jack and Diane vs. Technology , produced by Joint Puddle Productions, is a quirky adventure story where the title characters use...

OTTAWA Do you love a good detective story? Imagine yourself sitting by the fire, playing chess against a certain pipe smoking, violin...

OTTAWA Bob Marley: How Reggae Changed the World is unlike other shows at the Ottawa Fringe Festival this year. Duane Forrest combines...

OTTAWA Have you ever wanted to make a difference, but found that life gets in the way? And even if you had something important to say, is...

OTTAWA APJ Productions’ Hesperus, Phosphorus! was off to a fantastic start. In Petrograd at the dawn of the Bolshevik Revolution, Maksim...

What happens if you die, but you are not quite ready to face judgment? What are your options? Can you choose to hover at Death’s door,...

The Death of a Swan , presented by Moth & Firefly Theatre Collective, opens with great promise. The apparent apparition of William Dorsey...

Dahlia Lesh and Marianna Kokkinos. Photo by Liz Picasso. Strings Attached is a gut-wrenching two-person play that explores themes of...

Martin Dockery is a master storyteller. With a self deprecating humour, sincerity and charisma, Dockery’s shows are always a must-see for...

For my first show of the 2025 Ottawa Fringe Festival, I chose Divine Masculine: A Rhapsody at Theatre de la Nouvelle Scène. Written and...

In 37 Postcards, Avery Sutton (Dawson Fleming) returns to his hometown of Darien, Connecticut, after eight years travelling around Europe with fiancée, Gillian (Lindsey Keene), in tow. Upon arrival, he finds that the house – and its inhabitants – are a little kookier than he remembered.

OTTAWA Orpheus opened its final show of its 2024-2025 season with its presentation of Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man. The Music Man...

OTTAWA “Beetlejuice is sexy, Beetlejuice is smart, Beetlejuice is a graduate of Julliard!” Barbara (Megan Morris) and Adam Maitland (...

OTTAWA Last week I saw the first part of Why Not Theatre’s Mahabharata at the National Arts Centre, an epic play based on an ancient...

MONTREAL This past weekend was the grand opening of Cirque du Soleil's Luzia under the big top in Montreal's Old Port. The entrance to...

OTTAWA The curtain closed on Mahabharata: Karma - Part 1 The Life We Inherit to an uproar of applause. Upon exiting the theatre, the air...

OTTAWA MOMIX Alice . Photos by Sharon Bradford. The National Arts Centre Dance’s final show of the season is MOMIX’s Alice, a piece that...

Ottawa The Ottawa Little Theatre cast of And Then There Were None . Photo by Maria Vartanova Don’t miss the boat to Soldier Island!...