Upcoming Shows
Agatha Christie’s novel cemented her reputation as the greatest mystery writer ever, and it now comes to the OLT in a sparkling new adaptation.
Heart-warming, heart-wrenching and laugh-out-loud funny, Kimberly Akimbo is not to be missed!
Pollination and insemination have never been funnier than in this rural comedy with a huge, honeyed heart.
An intense real-life thriller exploring the responsibilities of leadership and the personal toll of taking a stand.
A love letter to the stage by an Ottawa playwright and OLT actor!
This Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy finally comes to the OLT stage.
This recent Broadway hit puts the ladies in the driver’s seat and turns the classic screwball comedy on its head!
Charlotte Brontë’s haunting novel comes to the OLT stage in a new adaptation by one of Canada’s most exciting playwrights.
A Christmas story where the ghost isn't there to scare you, but to help you find love.
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
Your favourite characters from Dickens and Conan Doyle are brought together in a story of intrigue and suspense, with a giant scoop of holiday cheer....
Years earlier, a young governess was hired to look after two orphaned children in an idyllic country house where both she and the children began...
Norm Foster's quick wit is strong in this lighthearted buddy comedy about living life to its fullest.
Ava returns to battle her former childhood friend and now-rival (Connie). Unfortunately, her father's famed chili recipe exists in only incomplete form.
Four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made on the night of their Prom: to be in each other’s wedding parties…no matter what!
In 37 Postcards, ordinary people find extraordinary ways to cope with life and death and everything in-between.
Returning to the OLT! Dame Agatha wrote this stage adaptation based on her own novel – the best-selling mystery of all time.
Now and Then is a heartfelt romantic comedy about the costs of the choices we make, and the people who make them with us.
The mysterious and wealthy Grace has invited a former golf pro turned financial advisor and a lawyer with sordid secrets to her mansion where her...
Wives, mistresses and husbands are caught in a wild cover-up when a mans weekly exercise turns out to be more than a jog in the...
A comedy thriller by one of America’s hottest contemporary writers (Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Smash). When a naïve young woman inherits a priceless stamp...
An eccentric collection of actors visits the sleepy Irish seaside town of Inish. The townsfolk find their lives transformed in startling and often very funny...
In this touching play by the winner of three Governor General Awards, a recent widow, meets a feisty resident who fights nursing home authority and...
Guests of the Deputy Mayor of New York arrive for a party only to find their host injured and his wife missing! Wild scandal-suppressing antics...
A church Christmas program spins hilariously out of control in this Southern farce about squabbling sisters, family secrets, a surly Santa, a vengeful sheep and...
A fast-paced thriller in the tradition of Sleuth and Deathtrap. A successful designer with a weakness for handsome young men, finds herself in a game...
“Naughty yes. Offensive no.” says playwright Norm Foster about this hilarious new play in which four innocents, for various comical reasons, find themselves caught up...
A young actor moves in with two aging farmers to gather stories about rural life for a play. His attempts to fit into farm life...
The play premiered at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London in 1982, to universally ecstatic reviews and shortly after transferred to the West End's Savoy Theatre...
These "Steel Magnolias," make us laugh and cry at Truvy's Beauty Parlour in a small town in modern-day Louisiana as they experience birth, death and...
Is the playboy lifestyle all it’s cracked up to be? A young man’s decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad...
Holding the record for the longest running comedy-thriller on Broadway, this Tony award winning play is truly diabolical. A once renowned mystery writer will stop...
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