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Alessia Cara and TALK to Headline the 2025 Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival
by BWW News Desk - April 15, 2025
From August 27th to 31st, 2025, the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival (FMG) is set to deliver five unforgettable nights of live performances featuring artists like Alessia Cara and TALK.
A WHOLE NEW WORLD Comes To Theatre Collingwood
by BWW News Desk - April 10, 2025
This May, local audiences will be treated to a rare and radiant evening of song and storytelling with A WHOLE NEW WORLD – THE MUSICAL MAGIC OF ALAN MENKEN.
MOULIN ROUGE!, & JULIET, and More Set For Broadway Across Canada's 2025-26 Ottawa Lineup
by BWW News Desk - April 09, 2025
Broadway Across Canada has announced its 2025-26 lineup for Ottawa. The 5-show package includes Moulin Rouge! The Musical, & Juliet, Mamma Mia!, Mrs. Doubtfire and Clue.
Crow's Theatre And Thought For Food Productions To Present THE VEIL
by BWW News Desk - April 09, 2025
Guild Festival Theatre has announced that The Veil by Keith Barker and Thomas Morgan Jones, developed through GFT's In Conversations With Classics Workshop, will premiere at Crow's Theatre as part of their 2025/2026 Season.
Review: NOW AND THEN at Ottawa Little Theatre
by Courtney Castelino - April 06, 2025
What did our critic think of NOW AND THEN at Ottawa Little Theatre?
Review: TRIDENT MOON at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa
by Courtney Castelino - April 04, 2025
What did our critic think of TRIDENT MOON at National Arts Centre?
Guild Festival Theatre Announces Artists for 2025 Summer Season 
by BWW News Desk - April 03, 2025
Guild Festival Theatre has announced key artists performing in its 2025 Season. Featuring an exciting season launch event, a world premiere inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, and more.
Review: Kanata Theatre's HOME, I'M DARLING at the Ron Maslin Playhouse
by Courtney Castelino - March 28, 2025
The opening scene of Kanata Theatre’s presentation of Laura Wade’s Home, I’m Darling introduces us to Judy (Katie Torresan), housewife extraordinaire. Judy, decked out in a frock and frilly apron waits patiently in her checker tiled kitchen for her husband Johnny (Phillip Merriman) to come home, so she can make him a cocktail before serving up a homemade dinner. Great Scott! We’ve landed in some sort of 1950s utopian version of British suburbia. Or have we? 
Review: Sock 'n' Buskin's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY at Kailash Mital Theatre
by Courtney Castelino - March 25, 2025
What did our critic think of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY at Kailash Mital Theatre?
BOY BEATLE is Coming to the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre in April
by BWW News Desk - March 24, 2025
Easy Street Productions will be presenting Boy Beatle in Ottawa at the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre. Learn more about the production coming this April and learn how to purchase tickets.
Review: Three Sisters Theatre Company's SILENT SKY at The Gladstone Theatre
by Courtney Castelino - March 23, 2025
What did our critic think of SILENT SKY at The Gladstone Theatre?
Review: VIERGE at Great Canadian Theatre Company
by Courtney Castelino - March 21, 2025
What did our critic think of VIERGE at Great Canadian Theatre Company?
FemmeVox 8 Will Close Out March With Musical Collaboration
by BWW News Desk - March 11, 2025
Great Canadian Theatre Company and CKCU-FM will present FemmeVox 8 - the 8th concert in this popular music series - this month. Learn more about the performance here!
VIERGE Comes to Ottawa's GCTC
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2025
Great Canadian Theatre Company will close its 24-25 50th Anniversary Season with Vierge - from award-winning Montreal playwright Rachel Mutombo.
Review: Orpheus Musical Theatre's Production of BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL
by Courtney Castelino - March 02, 2025
This production highlights what Orpheus does well: quality vocals, simple, yet effective sets, and great chemistry among the cast that keeps the audience invested.
Review: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION at Ottawa Little Theatre
by Courtney Castelino - February 28, 2025
Tackling the stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption would be a daunting task for anyone, so it was with equal parts anticipation and apprehension that I approached the theatre for the opening night performance at Ottawa Little Theatre.
Review: Compagnie Virginie Brunelle's FABLES at the National Arts Centre
by Courtney Castelino - February 28, 2025
Fables is a co-production between the National Arts Centre and Montreal’s Compagnie Virginie Brunelle that is presented as a series of tableaux, where embattled women become larger than life in their grandeur, strength, and resilience.
Theatre Collingwood GIRLS NITE OUT Returns for 6th Season In March
by BWW News Desk - February 18, 2025
Theatre Collingwood will present the 6th annual Girls Nite Out, an unforgettable comedy event celebrating women in honor of International Women’s Day. Taking place on March 7 & 8, 2025, this laughter-filled evening of camaraderie and empowerment will feature the all-female Girls Nite Out comedy troupe, headlined by the legendary Elvira Kurt.
Bear & Co. Come To The Gladstone with Lucy Kirkwood's THE CHILDREN
by BWW News Desk - February 12, 2025
Bear & Co. will present The Children at The Gladstone, a black comedy about hope and marriage in the face of disaster. Running February 19 (preview) – March 8.
Theatre Collingwood Presents THE LOVE CABARET Next Week
by BWW News Desk - February 03, 2025
Celebrate the season of love with a one-of-a-kind performance at Theatre Collingwood's LOVE CABARET, happening on Monday, February 10th at New Life Church in Collingwood.
Review: GISELLE at Ottawa's National Arts Centre
by Courtney Castelino - January 31, 2025
​​​​​​​Giselle may be dubbed 'the ballerina's Hamlet' because of the complexity of the title role, but Tirion Law effortlessly tackles the challenges and uses them to showcase her talent as principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada.
Review: SALESMAN IN CHINA at National Arts Centre
by Courtney Castelino - January 21, 2025
NAC English Theatre presents the Stratford Festival’s production of Salesman in China, written by Canadian playwrights, Leanna Brodie and Jovanni Sy for two weeks only at the National Arts Centre. Arthur Miller’s acclaimed play, Death of a Salesman, was written in 1949. The story is about Willy Loman, a travelling salesman from Brooklyn, and his relationship with his two sons. Despite his optimism, Willy is struggling to live the American Dream: a comfortable existence with a steady income, a nice home, with a wife and kids who have been raised to be successful in their own right.
Review: QAUMMA at National Arts Centre
by Courtney Castelino - January 17, 2025
What did our critic think of QAUMMA at National Arts Centre?
Winners Announced For The 2024 BroadwayWorld Ottawa Awards
by BWW Awards - January 17, 2025
Winners have been announced for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Ottawa Awards! The 2024 Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.
WHY IT'S IMPOSSIBLE to Run at GCTC’s Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre
by BWW News Desk - January 09, 2025
In its first play of 2025, Great Canadian Theatre Company will present Why It’s imPossible: A play about parenting in precarious times, running in January. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

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