Connie Lim was in kind of a tough place in January 2017. The singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, better known as MILCK, had been dumped by her management team in 2016 after being promised a shot at a record deal. And she was looking for something to
Ludwig Van Beethoven once said "music comes more readily to me than words." For those who listen they can hear the truth of that in Southam Hall next fall. All nine of his symphonies begin a new season of performance at the NAC. They will be
New works by Akram Khan and Crystal Pite. A Face 2 Face festival featuring Indigenous performance from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. A return to the classics by Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and an appearance by Evelyn Hart highlight the 2018-19 season of dance at
When Jillian Keiley plans the NAC's English Theatre (ET) season, it's always about the thrill of the chase and the luck of the draw. She looks for companies and projects that should appear on the NAC's stages and be seen by larger audiences, often with a
The National Arts Centre Orchestra has just released the album New Worlds, its fifth in three years, in an ambitious program of recording music with the Quebec based classical label Analekta. The album is the third under the baton of music director Alexander Shelley. Two others were
The National Arts Centre paid tribute to outgoing CEO Peter Herrndorf Thursday night with a dinner and entertainment in what was considered the first official event in the recently renovated Canada Room that overlooks, on one side, the Rideau Canal and on the other side
Editor's Note: Paul Austerberry did win an Oscar for best production design for The Shape of Water which took four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director. By Matt Yuyitung When the Oscar winners are called on Sunday, a Carleton University architecture alumnus just might take home
These days, when one routinely makes a holiday of the planet’s most remote locations — Antarctica, the Galapagos, or a posh cruise through the Northwest Passage — it’s difficult to comprehend just how remarkable an adventure like Sir John Franklin’s really was. Death in the Ice
In advance of his appearance at the Wakefield Doc Festival on Friday and Saturday, director David Eng talks to ARTSFILE about his first feature film, Grand Cru (2017), about the life and philosophy of legendary wine-maker Pascal Marchand, who left Quebec as a 22 year
Not long ago, Canadian playwright Trey Anthony was chatting with her Uber driver, an immigrant from Poland, when her play How Black Mothers Say I Love You came up in the conversation. The show, which previews at the Great Canadian Theatre Company on March 6, is
