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Siphesihle November in 'Flight Pattern.' iPhoto caption: Siphesihle November in 'Flight Pattern.' Photo by Karolina Kuras.

It’s form versus feeling in the National Ballet’s winter double bill, featuring a North American premiere from Crystal Pite

Serge Lifar’s Suite en Blanc came out of the Second World War; Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern emerges from the world of wars we live in today. The double bill might be asking: What role, if any, should dance play in times of crisis? 

By Lindsey King / Mar 3, 2026
Clare Coulter in 'Queen Maeve.' iPhoto caption: Clare Coulter in 'Queen Maeve.' Photo by Jae Yang.

Clare Coulter brings a lifetime of experience to Judith Thompson’s Queen Maeve at Tarragon

“This is the first stage play I've done in such a long time,” says Coulter, “but I feel I've really learned what the stage asks of the actor: that they go beyond what we used to call the footlights and settle in to where the audience is.”

By Nathaniel Hanula-James / Mar 3, 2026
Ordena Stephens-Thompson and Tony Nappo in 'The Neighbours.' iPhoto caption: Ordena Stephens-Thompson and Tony Nappo in 'The Neighbours.'

REVIEW: In Nicolas Billon’s The Neighbours, everyone’s a bystander

Green Light Arts’ The Neighbours, playing at the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace, encourages audiences to reconsider their assumptions about the comfort of spectatorship.

By Liam Donovan / Mar 2, 2026