Rufus Wainwright headlines a contingent of 30 artists such as Bobby Bazini, Raffi, Steven Page, Leela Gilday and Lennie Gallant, from across a range of genres, as the ambitious NAC Presents concert series fleshes out the rest of its massive 2018-19 season. NAC presents will stage
If you remember the Great Canadian Theatre Company's Acoustic Waves series, you'll know that music has always played a big part in the 44-year-old theatre's programming. It looks like it's coming back in a big way with a co-pro by GCTC, CKCU-FM and CHUO-FM. They'll
Dionne Brand has always been an ambitious writer. Her novels and her collections of poetry are always thoughtful and complex. But she seems to have outdone herself this year with two new books; one called The Blue Clerk which has been nominated for a Governor General's
This has been a good year for Patrick deWitt. The movie version of his 2011 bestseller The Sisters Brothers has been given the Hollywood treatment starring some A-listers John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix and Jake Gyllenhaal. The movie even got a pretty decent review from The
Paul-André Fortier is a risk taker
If one of the intents of theatre – of any art, for that matter – is to give us entry into worlds we’d otherwise never inhabit, Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell succeeds splendidly. The world in this case is that of Mabel Hubbard Bell, who
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage/ To find the hand of Franklin /Reaching for the Beaufort Sea/Tracing one warm line /Through a land so wild and savage/ And make a Northwest Passage to the sea — Stan Rogers, Northwest Passage Many have sought to
The Kingston, Ontario writer Helen Humphreys has earned a well-deserved reputation for the fascinating subjects she chooses to write about and the words she employs to tell those stories. She has tackled apples in The Ghost Orchard, the Napanee River in The River, and, in
Oscar Rejlander didn’t invent photography, nor was he the first to use it, yet it’s remarkable to walk among his work, now at the National Gallery, and see so many of the roots of what we know as photography today. In his quest to have the
B.C. native Alix Hawley has written a second novel about the iconic American frontiersman Daniel Boone. The first was called All True Not a Lie in It. This one is called My Name Is A Knife and it returns to Boone's story after he is freed
