Five of the six playwrights in the 2017-2018 season at the Great Canadian Theatre Company are female, and many of them are young. A balanced representation of women and men “is just a priority for us,” says artistic director Eric Coates. “Because of historical inequity,
I don’t know about you, but every time I try to understand that old darling of physics, string theory, my brain seizes up like a car engine with a fatal oil leak. That’s not the case for Elliot Green. A driven physicist who’s attempting nothing less
Charles Richard-Hamelin is a Quebec pianist who is a rising star internationally and emerging as one of the most important pianists of his generation. His successful second place finish in the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015 has been followed up with a JUNO nomination
In 1967, the enigmatic Canadian musical icon, Glenn Gould produced a radio documentary for the CBC called The Idea of North. In his introduction to the piece, he said: "I've long been intrigued by that incredible tapestry of tundra and taiga which constitutes the Arctic and
When How is Now is presented in the 2017-18 NAC Dance season it will be a homecoming of sorts for the Ottawa native, choreographer and Canterbury High School graduate, Laurie Young. Young began her career at Le Groupe Dance Lab in Ottawa, said NAC Dance’s
To stand in front of Vilhelm Hammershoi’s Sunshine in the Drawing Room, a newly acquired painting at the National Gallery, is to feel austere. The 58-by-67 centimetre canvas has the delicate shadows of Vermeer, the dominant greys of Whistler, and the dark ambiguity of Colville.
From a rebellion by a clever Ojibway guy to the police shooting of a black hip-hop DJ, the 2017-2018 NAC English Theatre season is clearly inclusive. That’s in keeping with artistic director Jillian Keiley’s determination to bring to the national stage the multiplicity of stories
In season studded with household names like Ax, Bell and Branford Marsalis, here are three gems that are less famous, but no less dazzling: 1. John Storgårds is NACO’s Principal Guest Conductor, but he’s also a top-shelf violinist. On Oct. 14, as part of this fall’s
