The Great Canadian Theatre Company's 2018 -19 season is very much a continuation of a 44 year long tradition of presenting topical theatre. The new lineup was unveiled Saturday with six plays on the company's main stage. These are productions that offer: a ghost story, an untold tale
On Friday night in Vancouver, Kellylee Evans will don a hockey helmet and get behind the bench as the coach of the musicians' team taking on former NHLers in the annual JUNO Cup. She can't wait, in part because she loves the event, but also because
Steven Pinker is a practitioner of reason in his work as a psychologist and as a public intellectual. The Montreal born, Harvard professor is, thus, a product of the kind of thinking that Immanuel Kant proposed in his essay What Is Enlightenment published in 1784. Pinker does,
Orchestra marketers will often turn themselves inside out to come up with catchy concert themes. But Thursday’s NACO performance with Alexander Shelley proved that sometimes the most interesting programs happen naturally, when the audience enjoys an evening of musical works with no obvious connection other
“Yes, I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese.” — Sherlock Holmes from
A few years back, the Ottawa-born bass-baritone Philippe Sly was studying in Austria and was deeply immersed in Schubert's Winterreise. He was working with a well-known leider expert named Robert Holl. In Holl's home there was a painting depicting the composer holding a guitar. "Holl told me that
The world's largest chamber music festival is celebrating its silver anniversary with $25 tickets on a wide range of concerts and an eclectic mix of performances from classic chamber music to the cutting edge. The 2018 Chamberfest opens on July 26 with a return appearance by
The spring edition of the Ottawa International Writers festival features philosophers and poets along with stories of immigration, identity, the latest in fiction from Canada and abroad and a crime novel by the former Supreme Court chief justice Beverley McLachlin. Kicking off the event on April
From the forest of Bali to the villages of China's Yunnan province, Canadian composer Vivian Fung is alert to the sounds around her. Sometimes those sounds stay in her head and resound continually in a synaptic looptape commonly called an earworm, sometimes called a brainworm, sticky
By Evelyn Myers A new exhibit at the Canadian War Museum explores the tragic Second World War saga of the St. Louis, which saw more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis aboard a German ocean liner were turned away from Canada, the U.S. and other
