Theatre & Performance

Robert Lepage’s VR exhibition The Library at Night is an art experience for a receding world

White Girls in Moccasins by manidoons collective welcomes audiences back to Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

The culture wars are coming to dinner in Jason Sherman’s new play

Tarragon Theatre’s Light sheds judgement in favour of acceptance

In Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer, nothing is sacred (and that’s a good thing)

London’s Grand Theatre is ready for Room - and to once again be the room where it happens

Dixon Road and The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation, two new and very different family musicals, announce premieres

Vancouver Recital Society hopes for fourth attempt to have Russian pianist perform

Alberta Ballet’s Jean Grand-Maître says bye with Phi, a ballet danced to David Bowie

Gloria - finally, a media satire that really hits the mark

Theatre adaptation of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s novel Fall on Your Knees to hit stage in 2023

Theatre-makers in Canada and Poland team up to help displaced Ukrainians

Musical Stage Company founder Mitchell Marcus leaving for a life on the runway with Northcrest Developments

David Foster and playwright Tomson Highway among winners of the 2022 Governor-General’s Performing Arts Awards

Sonia Rodriguez’s last dance

Faces both fresh, familiar make up cast for Shaw Festival’s 60th season

Soulpepper’s Weyni Mengesha on teaming up with Bryan Cranston in Los Angeles

All my home’s a stage? What it’s like living amid live-streamed theatre during the pandemic

Ed Mirvish theatre transforms for Harry Potter

Keith Barker: How the Métis playwright opening the Shaw Festival’s 60th season became a grandmaster of grief

Stratford Festival: Colm Feore, Amaka Umeh and a slew of brand-new faces cast in comeback 2022 season

Honk if you hate theatre! Trucker protests shut down stage legend Walter Borden’s solo show at National Arts Centre

Who can step in to save imperilled Buddies in Bad Times?

Omicron decimated Canada’s performing arts centres, but lifting restrictions gives cause for optimism

The Rez Sisters vs. Margaritaville? Theatre Calgary’s new competition to let its audience decide on programming is a terrible idea - that just might work

Station Eleven’s depiction of theatre’s power reminds us mere survival is insufficient

Nestruck on Theatre: Three to see at the PuSh Festival in Vancouver

A tale of two festivals facing the worst of times amid Omicron

Nestruck on Theatre: Canadian plays move back to your headphones as live, in-person postponements abound

New English Theatre artistic director Nina Lee Aquino is a natural fit with the National Arts Centre

Outside of Canada, not all theatres are shutting down in the face of Omicron - and some are fighting back against orders to do so

Vivaldi opera gets premiere in Italian city of Ferrara nearly 300 years late

Broadway’s Music Man cancels performances as Hugh Jackman tests positive for COVID-19

To avoid more closings like Toronto’s Come From Away, governments need to support Canada’s performing-arts sector

Five theatre performances we can look forward to in 2022 (if COVID allows them to proceed)