The 2020-21 season of Broadway Across Canada will feature one of the recent highlights of the New York stage in the production Dear Evan Hansen, winner of six Tony awards, and the Tina Fey vehicle Mean Girls. But of course there is much more including
Clara Wieck was born into a middle class family in Leipzig, Germany in 1819. Fairly quickly her talent as a piano prodigy was recognized by her teacher and father and she was soon performing publicly to much acclaim. In 1830 she would meet the love of
In his one-man show, Take d Milk, Nah?, opening shortly at the NAC, Jivesh Parasram takes on the thorny matter of cultural identity. As an Indo-Caribbean-Hindu-Canadian, Parasram knows a thing or two about cultural identity and distrusts both it and plays that celebrate it. Thing
Well, for someone who doesn't exist, you seem in fine form! From The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino • Louise Lecavalier created the duet Battleground in 2016. This week she'll bring it to the National Arts Centre for performances on Jan. 15 and 16. The duet started as many
The word Unikkaaqtuat means telling stories in Inuktitut. That is at the heart of a performance of the same name assembled and delivered by a talented team of artists from the North on now at the National Arts Centre as a part of the Indigenous Theatre's
Greta Hodgkinson is a planner. She thinks ahead. She even started talking about stepping down from her role as a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada a few years before her target departure date. And yet this organized artist is stepping into some uncertainty
Guillaume Côté had this idea see. "For a long time I have wanted to do something that is narrative, something that is new and fiction," the principal dancer and associate choreographer of the National Ballet of Canada. "About two years I had this dinner with (the filmmaker and
The Ottawa cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne is probably better known for many musical collaborations but now he's just about to release a solo album of new music called Worlds Within. ARTSFILE just had to find out why this album now. Q. Raphael, tell me why you wanted
Guillaume Ittukssarjuat Saladin has a suggestion for audiences attending the upcoming world premiere of Unikkaaqtuat (meaning to tell stories), an all-ages show which opens the second half of NAC Indigenous Theatre’s inaugural season. The cross-cultural production fuses circus, theatre, music and video, spotlights Inuit artists
There are words that are, at times, derogatory. But such is the power of language that you can take those words and turn them into badges of honour. In a way that's what Ryan Hotchkiss is doing with the word boondocks, as in the boonies, meaning
