NextFest 2018: The Gooseberry
Juniper Wisniewski’s The Gooseberry is quite simply a dinner party from hell. Playing off the saying that marriage is hard,…
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NextFest 2018: Where Do We Begin?
I kicked off my NextFest 2018 journey with Lady Vanessa Cardona and Joanna Simon’s Where Do We Begin? with sound design by…
Riches of all types abound in The Silver Arrow
An embarrassment of riches closes out Daryl Cloran’s first season of programming at the Citadel Theatre: The Silver Arrow: The Untold…
Slut walks the tightrope between virgin and whore
SLUT. I’ve said it to insult, to joke, to shame, to celebrate, and as a political act of reclamation. I…
The cleaving of identity
Cleave – Elena Belyea’s latest play exploring the meaty questions of identity, self-acceptance, and acceptance of others – joins audiences and performers in the common experience of searching for an answer to the question ‘who am I?’, while recognizing that the answer to that question can only come from unique and separate journeys for each person.
The Humans is just that: unfailingly human
Stephen Karam’s The Humans shows how families fight and how they love. The deceptively simple title contains both the subject matter and…
Finding hope within a tragedy in Burning Bluebeard
While a pantomime about a fire in a theatre that killed more than 600 people (mostly children) doesn’t seem like…
A new ‘old song’ at the Citadel: Hadestown
It’s the most anticipated show of the 2017/2018 theatre season: the Canadian première of Hadestown at the Citadel Theatre, following a successful…
John Ware Reimagined a history lesson wrapped in a love story
Cheryl Foggo’s John Ware Reimagined is three things: John Ware and Mildred Lewis’ love story; A seemingly autobiographical tale of…
A mother copes with grief and trauma in The Testament of Mary
Walking into the PCL Studio Theatre, you are confronted with lights strung across the stage, separating the audience from the…
