Just when you thought no one could possibly find a fresh interpretation of Hamlet, along come adapter/director Ravi Jain and his Why Not Theatre company out of Toronto. Not exactly risk-averse, they’ve sliced and diced the old warhorse, integrated a gender-bending and cross-cultural slant, erected
The laughing and weeping masks known as “sock and buskin” have symbolized comedy and tragedy since the Greeks. In Revisor, their newest collaboration, choreographer Crystal Pite and writer-actor Jonathon Young have combined the farcical and the serious in one sharply divergent show, lifting the curtain
[caption id="attachment_32104" align="alignleft" width="291"] Sandra Oh. Photo: James White/Corbis Outline[/caption] [caption id="attachment_32106" align="alignright" width="232"] LouiseBessette. Photo: Pierre-Etienne Bergeron[/caption] It's been a pretty big year for Ottawa's Sandra Oh. She made history for winning a Golden Globe for her performance in the TV drama Killing Eve on BBC
In the fall of 2017, while many in Canada were celebrating 150 years of Confederation, the people of Catalonia were dealing with something Canadians are all too familiar with: The question of independence. Catalan leaders, after a referendum, declared independence, The Spanish state stepped in with
Crystal Pite and Jonathan Young were in the middle of the massive global success of their Olivier Award winning production Betroffenheit when they started talking about their next idea. "We both agreed that we were inspired to do something political and we wanted to work with
The singer Molly Johnson has been in the music business since she was four. As she enters her 60th year, she's still singing for her supper, but there's little doubt that her career is still cooking. Proof: She's nominated for a JUNO Award for her latest
Montreal’s Michel de Broin makes the ordinary extraordinary. He uses the most quotidian of items to make us look differently at things we otherwise hardly look at at all. De Broin is best known in Ottawa for his sculpture Majestic, set out back of the
Anyone who wanders through Ottawa City Hall will know it's a place of music. That will be enhanced even more with the 2019 Chamberfest City Series which opens March 19 with a concert by the Quatuor Andara, who will be in residence with Ottawa Chamberfest this year
After some 17 years, Measha Brueggergosman will be back on stage with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra in a performance of opera music. The Canadian soprano will be singing in the OSO's May 27 concert at Dominion-Chalmers United Church. She has had a busy time this year
The documentary film The Shadow of Gold takes a comprehensive look at the secretive global gold mining industry and the people who work in it and seek to change it. The film captures the massive growth in the gold industry which has exploded along with the
