The NAC’s new Indigenous Theatre department will have to make cuts to its inaugural season because it didn’t receive funding from Heritage Canada in the recent federal budget, Indigenous Theatre’s artistic director Kevin Loring says in a Facebook post. "I have now been put in the
As a child, one of my heroes was Pierre-Esprit Radisson, in large part because of a CBC TV series back then showing the 17th century explorer as a swashbuckling adventurer fearlessly paddling his canoe across Canada. The Americans had “King of the Frontier” Davy Crockett. We
Works by some 35 Canadian Impressionists will be seen in three European cities before returning to Ottawa for a major exhibition in the fall of 2020, the National Gallery of Canada has announced Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons will feature about 120 pieces of Canadian art
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens is doing something it hasn't done in 20 years. It's staging a version of one of the very first ballets. The last time the Montreal company tackled Giselle was just before the turn of the millennium. It's about time, said artistic director
Ian Shaw’s ambitious new novel about Middle East politics is exasperating but only because the politics of the Middle East is so exasperating. For the uninitiated, reading Quill of the Dove is like seeing an episode of Game of Thrones for the first time and
Friday was International Piano Day, so it felt especially appropriate to review Carson Becke in the final concert of this season’s Master Piano Recital Series. The Ottawa-area native is in the final stretch of a PhD at Oxford, but has returned home for the past
Monday's Ottawa Symphony Orchestra concert will not only mark a performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony in Dominion-Chalmers United Church and a return engagement with the violin virtuoso Kerson Leong playing Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor. It will also kick off a deepening relationship between
Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline, these names resonate in the great country music songbook. Their music and their strong personalities made them fan favourites and role models for dozens of young female performers. One of those young performers was a seven year
It's a long way from Burwash Landing, Kluane First Nation, Yukon to 1 Elgin St. and the NAC's Fourth Stage on March 30. But Diyet and the Love Soldiers are making the journey. It starts on the shores of Kluane Lake, then heads to Whitehorse, the
Susan Edgerley’s Shimmer is the first thing you see when you walk into this year’s exhibition for the Governor General’s Awards for Visual Arts at the National Gallery. Shimmer doesn’t command attention with bigness or brightness, instead, its display is subdued, lightly illuminated from above,
