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Reviews
Death takes the long way around the stage in Alberta Ballet's Peer Gynt. He has plenty of time to spare, and given the life of the man he's following, he might need it.
Toronto choreographer Alyssa Martin and her company Rock Bottom Movement are closing Fall for Dance North with a world-premiere dance-theatre work about parenthood.
Pacific Opera Victoria will open its 2026–27 mainstage season on October 16 with Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore at Victoria’s Royal Theatre, in a co-production with Vancouver Opera.
W&M Physical Theatre will bring La Luna to DJD Dance Centre in Calgary on Oct 9, 2026 and Oct 10, 2026, returning to a work choreographer and director Melissa Monteros first created in 1988 and expanding it into a full-length dance-theatre production with Calgary children performing alongside adult artists. Performances are 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday.
Kaha Dance Theatre will open Public Energy Performing Arts’ 2026–27 season in Peterborough on Oct. 14, 2026, with Blood Water Earth, a multimedia dance work led and performed by Santee Tekaronhiáhkhwa Smith.
Canadian filmmaker and stage director Atom Egoyan’s revival of Così fan tutte is underway at the Canadian Opera Company, with six performances remaining at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
Montreal-based Compagnie Marie Chouinard has two Canadian MAGNIFICAT dates remaining this month, with a Fredericton Playhouse performance on Oct 5, 2026, followed by a Québec City date at Grand Théâtre de Québec on Oct 14, 2026.
Four women populate Avonlea in OH, ANNE!, Bridget Ryan's musical adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.
Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova met at a theatre workshop in Kyiv while MacKenzie was working as dramaturge on Lianna Makuch’s Canadian play Barvinok.
When the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils holds its annual general meeting in Saskatoon on Oct. 17, its board-election agenda will include a new one-year youth representative position.
In Tai Amy Grauman’s Where Have All the Buffalo Gone?, two Métis souls and Buffalo encounter one another across seven periods of history.
When John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet opens the National Ballet of Canada’s 75th-anniversary season on Oct. 31, the company will be returning to a ballet that has followed it through much of its history.
Chelsea Isenor first encountered professional theatre in Kamloops as an audience member at Western Canada Theatre. On Nov. 2, she will return to the company as its executive director.
In 1988, Chan Hon Goh won a silver medal at the Royal Academy of Dance’s Genée International Ballet Competition.
On Sept. 17, Canada Council for the Arts Director and CEO Michelle Chawla published an open letter arguing that Canadian arts should be part of the country’s broader conversation about choosing Canadian.
Brian Webb is stepping back as artistic director of the Edmonton dance company he founded in 1979, with Molly McDermott taking over the role as the Brian Webb Dance Company enters its 48th season.
The Banff International String Quartet Festival is expanding the traditional four-player chamber ensemble this September, pairing string music with dance, accordion, larger ensembles and orchestral arrangements.
The Canadian-made Heated Rivalry phenomenon is getting another new Shane Hollander — this time on the Off-Broadway stage.
Ballet Kelowna dancer Kurt Werner will take his final bow next spring after 15 years with the company, closing a 2026–27 season that will also bring A Streetcar Named Desire back to the Kelowna Community Theatre.
Royal Winnipeg Ballet opens its 2026–27 mainstage season at Winnipeg’s Centennial Concert Hall on Oct. 8 with Stravinsky Stories, a double bill that brings Alexei Ratmansky’s The Fairy’s Kiss to the company alongside the world premiere of a new Firebird by choreographer Houston Thomas.