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By its nature, Odyssey Theatre’s Theatre Under the Stars is at the whim of the weather.  With increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and extreme heat and humidity, the opening night of The Girl With No Hands had to be postponed. On The Girl With No Hands' new opening night, the weather gods smiled upon Odyssey Theatre and provided the cast, crew, and audience with picture perfect weather.

Odyssey Theatre’s Theatre Under the Stars premieres its new play, The Girl With No Hands, this weekend at Strathcona Park.

Broadway Across Canada’s presentation of HAMILTON will offer 40 tickets for every performance for $10 each through the #HAM4HAM lottery.

Tyler Fauntleroy talked about his personal journey with the show, provided insight into the musical's themes, and gave some reasons why Canadian audiences should see a story about America's beginnings, despite current cross-border tensions..

Ottawa Little Theatre is continuing its trend of summer comedies with Always a Bridesmaid by Jessie Jones, Nicolas Hope, and James Wooten.

Bad Hat’s Theatre’s Alice in Wonderland, presented by Tweed & Company Theatre, is not the same Alice you grew up with. This Alice (Colleen Furlan) is a child in grade school. Alice shows up for class with her homework assignment incomplete because she doesn’t know what to write in response to the final question, “What will you be when you grow up?” As is typical of precocious children, Alice questions everything, from the mundane to the profound.

Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe and Shenkman Arts Centre have announced the first half of their 2025-2026 season and it is lineup of shows that will appeal to the whole family! Find details of all the shows announced so far so you can get your tickets early, as these are extremely limited engagements.

​​​​​​​Kitsune is the newest brainchild from the creators of Kimiko, a past hit at the Ottawa Fringe Festival. Part storytelling, part puppetry and part circus act, Kitsune has been promoted as one of the few family-friendly shows.

Jack and Diane vs. Technology, produced by Joint Puddle Productions, is a quirky adventure story where the title characters use newfound technology intended to make their lives easier – and it ends up doing anything but.

There are very limited chances left to see Slade Wolfe Enterprises Limited's production of After Shakespeare, starring Lexi Wolfe at the 2025 Ottawa Fringe Festival.

Do you love a good detective story? Imagine yourself sitting by the fire, playing chess against a certain pipe smoking, violin wielding brainiac? Or perhaps dining on a Nile River cruise with a mustachioed gentleman who has a self-proclaimed abundance of little grey cells? Hopping into a psychedelic caravan full of foot long sandwiches and a cowardly Great Dane?

Bob Marley: How Reggae Changed the World is unlike other shows at the Ottawa Fringe Festival this year. Duane Forrest combines storytelling, history and music and creates a feeling of warmth and harmony within the audience in one short hour.

What did our critic think of HESPERUS PHOSPHORUS! at Arts Court Theatre?

What did our critic think of THE BUNKER at Odd Box? Head down into The Bunker until June 21st at the Ottawa Fringe Festival. In this play within a play, we meet two brothers; one (Andrew Broaddus) is an actor and the other (Martin Dockery) is a playwright. Together, they are supposed to be putting on a performance of play about America. The problem? Despite his best intentions, the playwright never actually got around to writing it.

What happens if you die, but you are not quite ready to face judgment? What are your options? Can you choose to hover at Death’s door, never crossing the threshold? How long will Death let you linger?

The Death of a Swan, presented by Moth & Firefly Theatre Collective, opens with great promise. The apparent apparition of William Dorsey Swann (the first drag queen in America, played to perfection by Aurel Pressat) sets the stage for a history lesson.

Strings Attached is a gut-wrenching two-person play that explores themes of mental illness. The show delves into how it feels to have a monster in your head. Even as you attempt to rationalize and to fight against it, it haunts every waking moment, filling your head with feelings of inadequacy and self-loathing.

Martin Dockery is a master storyteller. With a self deprecating humour, sincerity and charisma, Dockery’s shows are always a must-see for me. A staple on the fringe circuit now for years, Dockery has mastered his technique.

For my first show of the 2025 Ottawa Fringe Festival, I chose Divine Masculine: A Rhapsody at Theatre de la Nouvelle Scène. Written and directed by Navneel Agnihotri and presented by Agni Creative, The synopsis sounded intriguing: “With a soundtrack ranging from Kendrick Lamar to Bollywood classics, this story of two couples explores the social construction of masculinity, cultural and racial fetishism, and the bridges and barriers we build in expressing love.”

Ottawa Little Theatre’s latest play, a presentation of Michaeal McKeever’s 37 Postcards, opened last night. With the show’s entire run coinciding with the Ottawa Fringe Festival, OLT needed to pick a show that can compete with the mass of theatre offerings around the city over the next two weeks. 37 Postcards is up for that challenge; the show is charming, witty, well paced, and features a superb cast with impeccable comedic timing.