Josephine, a burlesque cabaret dream play Dynamite Lunchbox Entertainment, Orlando, U.S.A. Three days into the festival and Josephine is already packing the house. Little wonder: like her subject — 20th-century performer, activist and gourmand of life Josephine Baker -—Tymisha Harris’s portrayal is intelligent, textured and immensely entertaining. Baker
God of Carnage Stendhal X, Montreal “We’re always on our own everywhere,” says one of the characters toward the end of God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza’s acute 2006 play about the fragility of our civilized veneer. That aloneness is precisely what Stendhal X’s adaptation spotlights as we
The process has formally begun to replace National Gallery Director Marc Mayer with a call on a federal website for candidates interested in the job. This was expected as Mayer indicated earlier this spring that, after a decade in his position, he would not seek, nor
Fool Muun Komming The Invisible Theater of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, U.S.A. Is loneliness — and the attempt to ward it off by creating fictional worlds inside our own heads — the common thread that connects us with aliens from outer space? No doubt about it, according to Fool Muun
There's nothing Kevin Loring, actor, likes more than a voice over gig on an animation. These days, Loring is the artistic director of the new Indigenous Theatre department at the National Arts Centre and he doesn't have a lot of time for acting gigs. But before
Mention the word “armour” and the imagination fires — those knights in their polished suits of steel, their mighty steeds snorting, their fair maidens cheering as dragons are slain. That’s the romantic imagination, anyhow. Few people think of armour as it’s still so commonly used
The winner of the National 3D Printed Musical Instrument Challenge is a uOttawa PhD student with a penchant for the clarinet. Robert Hunter has redesigned the woodwind instrument to make it more ergonomically friendly to players by using a brace to shift the weight to larger
With his long beard and piercing eyes, the bust of the important 16th century Venetian politician and patron of the arts Giulio Contarini is an imposing and striking portrait in terracotta. No wonder this image was reproduced in engravings and drawings by artists who witnessed it.
If your a fan of Star Trek, you might say that the 2018-19 season of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra will explore new musical worlds, going where not too many orchestras have gone before, at least in this town. The season, assembled by music director Alain Trudel,
The money has started flowing from the $25 million National Creation Fund. The pot of cash was announced by the National Arts Centre in 2016 and was fully funded soon after. Now the first nine projects to receive money are known. Heather Moore is the artistic producer
