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ottawa fringe iPhoto caption: Graphic courtesy of Ottawa Fringe.

REVIEWS: Ottawa Fringe 2024

The 2024 Ottawa Fringe Festival has come to a close!

By Luke Brown, , Alexa MacKie
Production photo of HOME, created by Geoff Sobelle. iPhoto caption: Photo by Peggy Baud-Woolsey.

REVIEW: Geoff Sobelle’s HOME journeys from hyperrealism to slapstick

It’s a multivalent work that toggles between gentle and abrasive, understated and triumphant, complicated and straightforward, experimental and crowd-pleasing.

By Liam Donovan
dora awards iPhoto caption: Photo of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 by Dahlia Katz.

Toronto theatre wins big at the 2024 Dora Awards

The winners of the 2024 Dora Awards were announced on Monday in a lively ceremony hosted by Ryan G. Hinds at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre.

By Aisling Murphy
mary's wedding iPhoto caption: Derek Ritschel, director of Mary's Wedding and artistic director of Lighthouse Festival Theatre.

Mary’s Wedding promises to pack an emotional punch at Lighthouse Festival Theatre

“I liken it more to poetry than I do to your standard text of a play,” says Derek Ritschel, the director of Mary’s Wedding and the artistic director of Lighthouse Festival.

By Nathaniel Hanula-James
balancing act iPhoto caption: The Balancing Act team. Photo by Zeeshan Safdar.

Balancing Act creates options for caregivers in Canadian theatre

“The policies that we're creating, while they're centring mothers, parents, artists who are caregivers, they actually help everyone in the industry,” says founder and executive director Lisa Marie DiLberto. “You don't know when you're going to need these kinds of supports, because everyone's going to be a caregiver or need care at some point.”

By Kaitlyn Riordan
aportia chryptych iPhoto caption: Photo courtesy of the Canadian Opera Company.

REVIEW: Aportia Chryptych marks many firsts for Canadian opera

While representation is important, re-telling stories of Black Canadians comes with even greater responsibility.  Our stories are not monoliths, nor should they exist within a digestible social narrative. Imbued with...

By Aisha Lesley Bentham