Reading Time: 3 minutesSmall Talk is “a show where people save each other.” Everyone — from coworkers, to family members, to choir attendees, to people you pass in public — is struggling with something. Small Talk is an attempt to illuminate these issues we all have
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom Fringe festivals, to professional theatre, to student-run shows, to community theatre, Ottawa has plenty of theatre opportunities to partake in celebrating World Theatre Day.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn March 16, the U of O’s Faculty of Law (FTX Productions) presented Legally Blonde, a pleasantly pink performance that blew audiences away.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom January 25- 28, the University of Ottawa Theatre Club (UOTC) ran a rendition of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, a heartwarming and touching stage adaptation that transformed the theatre in Academic Hall into the loving, humble, little house of the March family.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSince 2011, the Undercurrents Festival has been an annual celebration of contemporary theatre in Ottawa. This year the festival will run from Feb. 7-17.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe new uOttawa Theatre Club could mean a whole new golden age of the performing arts at U of O.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFive intimate, local productions that’ll hold the audience, hostage.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Remembering is an original play written and performed by Billie Nell, a third-year linguistics student at the University of Ottawa. The Remembering contemplates conscious awareness of one’s self, after finding a tooth in a tomato garden springing a “chilling spiral into this trans, autistic reimagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.”
Reading Time: 3 minutes45 shows with a total of 300 performances took place within a span of 11 days at six different venues…Ottawa Fringe Festival is an intense yet creative period of excellent theatre. U of O theatre student, Mariana Gomez, was able to document her experiences as a venue technician.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOttawa’s own Gladstone Theatre has returned to its first full season since 2018-19. With an energetic selection of new shows, such as Tick,Tick…BOOM! and Steel Magnolias, local creativity and talent from around the city will be showcased.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe eager cast and crew members of Unity for Action’s Four Years are hosting the club’s 10th annual musical. Despite being previously disrupted by COVID-19, everyone is confident about the charitable weekend shows.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere at The Fulcrum, we’re not strangers to talking about climate change. Why Worry About Their Futures reflects our worries about the future of the world right back at us.
Reading Time: 3 minutesJD Leslie (Anaia) and Oyin Oladeio (Racine) play sisters looking for redemption in Is God Is by Aleshea Harris.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs You Like It: A Radical Retelling creates a necessary obstruction of the status quo in Canadian arts production.
Reading Time: 2 minutesExcuse me while I put some Y2K pop on repeat.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA unique aspect of Daisy is the plot’s relevance to the divisive political landscape that permeates society today. In Daisy we encounter what the writers presume to be the inception of the modern day ‘attack ad.’ Its irreversibly deleterious effects upon American politics and the integrity of political campaigns are as discussed and feared then as they are now.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Press Play Reading Series, an event organized by the Playwrights Canada Press, offers its attendees a mini-theatre experience — a chance to discover the works of both well-established and up-and-coming Canadian playwrights and theatre artists.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA “period piece” for the 21st century In a night of facts, science, storytelling, and song and dance, A Period Piece, performed by Spicy Day, an award-winning theatre company from Ottawa, left no stone unturned in their mission: to encourage conversation, destigmatize and increase comfort level surrounding periods and menstruation. Opening on Friday, Nov. 5, …
Reading Time: 3 minutesTheatre: this is an “until death do us part” situation, and I’m not going anywhere. I’m here for you through the rough patch.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDear Evan Hansen: today is going to be a controversial day … Sincerely, me!
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt seldom happens that such a cast as Come From Away’s can be preserved digitally forever, eschewing the ephemeral and resting fossilized in the online ether.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe particular demands of the practical arts complicate the already-complex process of reinstating in-person learning at the U of O
Reading Time: 6 minutesYou’re excited for a version of undercurrents that’s either in-person or that finds other, creative ways to engage its audience outside the clutches of the Internet.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTo my year-ago self: I cannot possibly warn you of what’s to come. There’s a wild ride ahead. But you’re going to get through it.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLocal theatre makers Nicholas Leno (a 2016 U of O MFA directing alum) and Norah Paton have created an immersive, site-specific, audio production of A Christmas Carol to be delivered to audience’s houses in a convenient box.
