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by Courtney Castelino - March 01, 2026
What did our critic think of AFTER THE RAIN at National Arts Centre?...
by Courtney Castelino - February 28, 2026
What did our critic think of THE NAC’S PRESENTATION OF THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK at National Arts Centre?...
by Courtney Castelino - January 25, 2026
This week, Sock ‘n’ Buskin presented a limited engagement of Tom Stoppard's comedy-meets-existential-crisis, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,...
by Courtney Castelino - January 16, 2026
What did our critic think of COPPERBELT at National Arts Centre?...
by Courtney Castelino - January 07, 2026
Broadway Across Canada’s presentation of Clue Live on Stage! rolled into Ottawa’s National Arts Centre last night. The show, written by Jonathan Lynn, is based on the 1985 film, Clue (also written by Lynn), which was itself based on the popular Hasbro board game....
by Courtney Castelino - December 24, 2025
What did our critic think of HANSEL AND GRETEL GO WEST at Ottawa Musicals?...
by Courtney Castelino - December 20, 2025
Pierre Brault’s A Christmas Carol: Solo is back again this season at Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe! This is an extraordinary interpretation of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic....
by Courtney Castelino - December 06, 2025
What did our critic think of THE STORYVILLE MOSQUITO at National Arts Centre?...
by Courtney Castelino - December 04, 2025
What did our critic think of A SHERLOCK CAROL at Ottawa Little Theatre?...
Past Shows
He was born on a Thursday. Vegetable soup day. Suzanne Lebeau offers a different take on Hansel and Gretel. Oh, the parents, the forest, the...
Get up from your seat, leave the theatre behind and come along on a voyage of discovery! Inspired by local residents and their stories of...
Video games meet the Trickster as Cliff Cardinal conjures a theatrical storm. His one-man tour de force is wrenching yet darkly comic, a journey into...
Evelyne de la Chenelière wanted to speak with Marie Cardinal, to engage in a dialogue with her practice and her ideas. So she immersed herself...
Montreal’s Virginie Brunelle is known for male-female relationships in a post-romantic world. Her highly physical, flesh-baring works are distinctly contemporary, yet with a beautifully textured...
When you have no place to go, your only option is to make somewhere up, invent it yourself. In a quiet little town grown even...
Emptiness doesn’t necessarily mean there’s something missing—not to me, anyway. From Tehran’s starry nights to the Perseids over Caraquet by way of Paris, Toronto, Ottawa...
A scorching exposé of corporate madness, ENRON is corrosively funny and exuberantly theatrical. The infamous Enron scandal (greed + ambition + fraud = financial ruin)...
Rising features exciting young British- Indian Kathak dancer Aakash Odedra performing to perfection in solo works created especially for him. By encouraging top-ranked choreographers Akram...
For Véronique Côté, creating theatre for babies is like trying to talk to the beginning of time. At the end of a path edged with...
Mister Wolf, are you there? Three acrobats/actors/clowns take the stage to create three funny and appealing characters: Miss Black, Miss Blond and Mister Chestnut, students...
It penetrates silence, permeates loss and rejection, lurks beneath the surface of waiting and solitude, blazes forth in individual and collective violence. Pain is everywhere,...
My name is Éthienne, with an “h,” and my story starts out badly. What a family! Éthienne has 56 brothers, a giddy mother and a...
An emotional and physical reaction to weather is one of the few remaining connections between humans and the natural world. This atmospheric and arresting new...
A column of smoke quickly rose into the air… and Kurt bursts into flames, blazing like the countless fires he has set. Impetuous German playwright...
I am a round thing surrounded by other round things, hanging on a tree surrounded by other trees. Once upon a time there was an...
The Raven dances, the Raven sings, the Raven always has something to say. From the time Inuit lived a nomadic life, the Raven has inhabited...
Peggy Baker returns to the NAC with her ensemble of exquisite dancers to celebrate the power and poetry of contemporary dance and live music. Joined...
Peggy Baker returns to the NAC with her ensemble of exquisite dancers to celebrate the power and poetry of contemporary dance and live music. Joined...
“Nothing like this has ever happened in Scandinavia, but I’m convinced that sooner or later it will,” said the author of this piece Lars Norén...
Known for their extreme, near violent physicality and emotionally explosive dance-theatre, Netherlands-based company T.R.A.S.H. make their NAC debut with two heart-pounding, intoxicating duets. Performed to...
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