NAC THEATRE

An Ex Machina production (Québec) co-production with Théâtre du Trident (Québec), Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (Montréal), and Canadian Stage (Toronto) Theatrical wizard Robert Lepage brings ...

With the complicity of a flamboyant team, Brigitte Haentjens portrays the monster with the deformed soul (played by Sébastien Ricard). By exploiting the rich register ...

Sweden’s meteorically rising star Pontus Lidberg makes his NAC debut with a breathtakingly poetic new creation, Written on Water, as well as his 2013 masterwork, ...

This Southern Gothic chronicles a family's odyssey to bury their matriarch. The Bundrens must do battle with floods, fire and their private demons as calamity ...

The enormously successful art collective L.A. Dance Project was co-founded in 2012 by eminent dancer-choreographer Benjamin Millepied (the incoming Director of the Paris Opera Ballet) ...

History in the making. Stuff Happens is dramatic dynamite, a provocative political drama starring a president, a prime minister, and a crowd of high-level decision-makers. ...

From page to stage to piano, two new works – inspired by the visual arts and music – display the unbridled imagination of master choreographer ...

A madly inventive coming-of-age story for everyone!. When Alice enters the Looking-Glass World, she experiences fantastical adventures with a dizzying array of extraordinary characters – ...

The stage is a veritable film set with cameras, miniature landscapes, Lilliputian figurines… and hands that dance. A poetic choreography full of activity, it is ...

Headed by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, L-E-V is an audacious and provocative new Israeli company fusing movement, music, lighting, fashion, art, and technology. Since ...

Go Wilde! This brilliantly clever and inventive 1895 comedy of manners is without peer. A triumph of subtlety and sophistication, The Importance of Being Earnest ...

NAC Associate Dance Artist Louise Lecavalier is a goddess of dance – and So Blue is her first self-choreographed work in an illustrious history as ...

Brigitte Haentjens pursues her work on the private and the intimate by bringing to life the last chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Anne-Marie Cadieux is ...

A compelling true story of rescue, rebirth, and salvation. Barely surviving a WWII shipwreck, U.S. sailor Lanier Phillips becomes the first black man to appear ...

With enfant terrible Dave St-Pierre, anything goes. His vision is cynical and sarcastic, obsessed with the human body, fearless and heavy on guerilla warfare between ...

I have no reason to cry, just to scream. Albertine is consumed with rage; her tragedy is her inability to escape her own fury. Michel ...

FAR, based on 18th-century theories of the body, mind and soul, is one of the most purely beautiful pieces Wayne McGregor has made. Glimmering with ...

This passionate and provocative docudrama – part courtroom confrontation, part social satire – sows the seeds of doubt. Centering on the four-year legal showdown between ...

Israel Galván is a genius of gesture, a maverick, known for spellbinding 21st-century flamenco. Famous for his power, precision and brilliantly complicated, fast footwork, Galván ...

Writing is too much for me now. Why not a movie? The Theatre stage is transformed into a movie set where a group of actors ...

Dance-maker Kyle Abraham is seriously charismatic and hailed as “one of the brightest creative talents to emerge in New York City” in the last four ...

Author Ins Choi writes from personal experience about intergenerational clashes in a Korean-Canadian family, giving this award-winning play a feeling of integrity and authenticity. A ...

The Sound of Music is sheer theatrical magic! In this special production of the classic tale of courage, optimism and family togetherness, we encourage you ...

You’ve never seen Hamlet quite like this! Shakespeare’s tragedy is performed by award-winning actor Raoul Bhaneja, playing all 17 roles himself. This sparse, focused production ...

Hailed as an international treasure following his singular contribution to the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, Akram Khan returns to Ottawa with DESH, a new ...

Cinderella, beautiful glass-slippered girl whose face is familiar all over the world… An exceptional creator and a leading figure in contemporary theatre, playwright and director ...

Molière’s comedy classic is ingeniously re-imagined in Andy Jones’ riotous adaptation, set in 1937 Newfoundland. This Tartuffe is two hours of insanely brilliant showmanship that ...

Seminal French choreographer Maguy Marin’s Salves was acclaimed as a masterpiece after its premiere in 2010. This haunting work, a potent mix of dance and ...

Sasha Samar’s story is as red as the sky over Chernobyl, as red as the iron-rich soil, as red as his passion for Nadia Comaneci, ...

Giguère’s work chose me, admits Thomas Hellman. From the moment he leafed through a copy of Roland Giguère’s anthology L’âge de la parole, singer-songwriter Thomas ...

A character tells her life story: days of suffocating banality, an ordinary existence that gradually morphs into something fierce and unpredictable, fleeting glimpses of a ...

Lemi Ponifasio established the MAU in 1995 as the name for his work and platform for critical reflection and creativity with artists, scholars, activists, intellectuals, ...

Internationally celebrated company BJM returns to the NAC celebrating their milestone 40th anniversary season. Under the artistic direction of Louis Robitaille, the troupe presents a ...

Internationally celebrated company BJM returns to the NAC celebrating their milestone 40th anniversary season. Under the artistic direction of Louis Robitaille, the troupe presents a ...

Norway’s National Company of Contemporary Dance, Carte Blanche, makes its NAC debut with the high energy, theatrical 3 O’Clock in the Afternoon. Choreographed by the ...

Dreaming dreams, hoping for success, facing reality. That’s the funny and touching story of Ted and Richard—whiz kids who want to become superstar pianists—and how ...