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Production photo of Vierge at GCTC/Black Theatre Workshop. iPhoto caption: Photo by Andree Lanthier.

GCTC to close out season with Rachel Mutombo’s Vierge

Co-produced by Montreal’s Black Theatre Workshop and directed by Dian Marie Bridge, Vierge will run from March 18 to 30 at the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre in Ottawa.

By Liam Donovan
Production photo of Tara Sky in The Born-Again Crow at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. iPhoto caption: Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh.

REVIEW: The Born-Again Crow is an ardent ode to unproductivity

Director Jessica Carmichael’s Toronto premiere production trucks along with the passionate force of an early-2000s emo rock hit, imbuing this systemic critique with rousing, playful life.

By Liam Donovan
Production photo of House + Body's Measure for Measure at Crow's Theatre. iPhoto caption: Photo by Kendra Epik.

REVIEW: House + Body’s Measure for Measure weds the beautiful with the troubling

House + Body provides few answers about how to resist (or further, dismantle) a corrupt government. But layered portrayals of the play’s central characters convey the emotional stakes of a system that allows for egregious abuses of power.

By Ferron Delcy
Production photo of Carried by the River. iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.

REVIEW: Red Snow Collective’s Carried by the River is still finding its flow

Playing in the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace, Carried by the River delivers visually striking images and impressive choreography but struggles to find emotional depth and cohesion.

By Krystal Abrigo
Chris Tolley and Laura Mullin, the co-creators of CBC's PlayME podcast. iPhoto caption: Photo courtesy of the CBC.

As the trade war rages on, CBC’s PlayME stays true to its mandate of platforming Canadian writers

“I think all five of these shows really help us plant a stake in saying who we are as Canadians,” says PlayME co-creator Chris Tolley.

By Nathaniel Hanula-James
Rosamund Small in Performance Review. iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.

REVIEW: Outside the March’s Performance Review is claustrophobic for all the right reasons

It’s up close and personal, with lots of eye contact and sometimes only inches of distance between playwright-performer Rosamund Small and the audience.

By Gus Lederman