Matt Mason

Toronto-based playwright, actor and co-founding Artistic Director of fu-GEN Theatre Company, David Yee, is this year's winner of Canada's most valuable theatre award in the category of playwriting.

Obsessed with memory, dream worlds, fantasies and parallel realities, the future is here but it feels kinda like the past is a transportive, mystical journey that traces the contours of a balmy, high summer night, from the muggy, red-dirt afternoons that give way to electric blue twilights, through the navy-black nights sporadically, breath-takingly lit up by the whip of treacherous forked lightning, dissolving into warm, fuzzy mornings that sit perched on the window-sill of reality, another day. Sonically and thematically, the future is here but it feels kinda like the past lives in these listless hours of liminal consciousness, a self-contained, through-the-looking-glass universe where time becomes elastic, memories blur imperceptibly into one another and seeds of deep emotional truth come to you in surreal, warped imagery. 

Ahead of the release of her long-awaited debut album, the future is here but it feels kinda like the past, adored Eora/Sydney-based musician, visual artist and designer Annie Hamilton today unveils two more songs from the full-length: ‘Again’ and ‘All The Doors Inside My Home Are Slamming Into One Another’. 

Sydney-based-multidisciplinary-artist Annie Hamilton today announces her long-awaited debut album, the future is here but it feels kinda like the past, also sharing latest single “Night Off.” The third single previewed off of Hamilton’s forthcoming debut LP, “Night Off” following the previously shared “Electric Night” and “Exist.'

Opera Omaha has announced its Poetry & Music Project 20/21 Concert. Join in for the virtual premiere on May 16th at 1pm of eleven original pieces of music created through the Poetry & Music Project!

The new album charts the story of two lovers, a kind of disillusioned Bonnie and Clyde, hellbent on fleeing a dead-end town with stars in their eyes.

The new album charts the story of two lovers, a kind of disillusioned Bonnie and Clyde, hellbent on fleeing a dead-end town with stars in their eyes. “Drinking With My Smoking Friends is about escaping something and finding something new, whether that's a place, a relationship or something else,” notes Allday’s Tom Gaynor.  

Voices AMPLIFIED! is a multidisciplinary arts and social justice initiative to amplify artists in diverse cultures.

Voices AMPLIFIED! is a multidisciplinary arts and social justice initiative, organized and led by Omaha Performing Arts, to amplify artists in diverse cultures.

DMA'S have unveiled a new video for single 'The Glow' which was shot in East London earlier this year by director Errol Rainey (Ivy Park, Alexander McQueen).

DMA'S have today announced they are pushing the release date for their highly anticipated third studio album to July 10th. The band today telling fans 'Our new album THE GLOW will now be released on July 10. Due to everything that's going on, we have had to postpone its release. All pre-orders will be honoured and sent out for the new date, and despite the delay the release, we will have new music for you soon - stay safe x”

DMA'S have today revealed full details of their forthcoming 3rd studio album The Glow. It was recorded and mixed by multiple Grammy winner Stuart Price (The Killers, Madonna, New Order) in between Westlake Studios in West Hollywood & RAK Studios in London.

'Cultural Rocketfuel' Vivek Shraya (Vanity Fair), legendary Canadian theatre artist Daniel MacIvor, and the rare return of a One Yellow Rabbit hit to be included in 34th Annual International Festival of the Arts

Variety reports that Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks will star in 'Major Matt Mason,' a feature film based on a Mattel action figure from the 1960s, at Paramount PIctures.

Sydney's DMA'S will release their highly anticipated sophomore album For Now. This morning it was announced that For Now will be the feature album ontriple j all this week, and to celebrate the band have dropped a trailer featuring a fresh track, 'Break Me'. Liam Gallagher's also on board, tweeting on Friday that the record is 'BIBLICAL'! DMA'S will then take their album on the road on the For Now national tour in June, which has been met with phenomenal excitement with their second Melbourne show sold out and second Sydney show not far behind.

The Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce, sole service provider of Special Service Area (SSA) #33, is proud to announce the artists and venues for its fifth annual ChillFest pop musical festival. This free one-day-only event celebrates the creative and entrepreneurial roots of the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods by curating 50+ local musicians to perform in neighborhood storefronts at the start of the holiday shopping season, Small Business Today, Nov. 25 from 2-6 p.m.

The Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce, sole service provider of Special Service Area (SSA) #33, is proud to announce the artists and venues for its fifth annual ChillFest pop musical festival. This free one-day-only event celebrates the creative and entrepreneurial roots of the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods by curating 50+ local musicians to perform in neighborhood storefronts at the start of the holiday shopping season, Small Business Saturday, Nov. 25 from 2-6 p.m.

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, will co-present the 12th annual MFA Playwright's Workshop (MFAPW) in association with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and Stanford University's National Center for New Plays.

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, will co-present the 12th annual MFA Playwright's Workshop (MFAPW) in association with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and Stanford University's National Center for New Plays.

Tarragon Theatre has announced the six Canadian playwrights nominated for the RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwright Prize, one of Canada's most prestigious prizes for new artists. The prize has a value of $8000 and includes a year's worth of dramaturgical support from Tarragon Theatre, as well as a public reading during the theatre's annual Play Reading Week. The winner will be announced in May, 2016.