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iPhoto caption: Photos of Eric Woolfe (by Dahlia Katz), Catherine Savoie, Evan Klassen (by Jerry Grajewski), and Heather Redfern.

With federal funding in question, four theatre leaders reflect on the joys and trials of performing arts venues

"Arts centres are going to have to apply to a new housing and infrastructure ministry program, which hasn’t been created yet, in order to access funds," says Heather Redfern, executive director of the Cultch in Vancouver. "So I’m very concerned that federal [funding] for cultural infrastructure in this country has completely disappeared."

By Nathaniel Hanula-James / Mar 13, 2026
text that says iPhoto caption: Lester Trips duo headshot Lauren Gillis and Alaine Hutton. Photo by Helen Yung.

Lester Trips wants Toronto theatre creators to ‘make it nasty’

"It doesn’t matter how many reels of a hamster falling out of its cage set to the Requiem I see: The music still hits," says Lauren Gillis. "We joke that the logline for Honey I’m Home is 'normie drone has menty-b from VR Zoom with her own living room.'"

By Nathaniel Hanula-James / Feb 1, 2026
Lauren Gillis and Alaine Hutton in 'Public Consumption.' iPhoto caption: Lauren Gillis and Alaine Hutton in 'Public Consumption.' Photo by Eden Graham.

REVIEW: Lester Trips’ stylish Public Consumption captures the internet’s profound emptiness

Rather than directly representing online life, Public Consumption speculates — with virtuosity — about how the digital world affects our bodies. And the show's findings are by no means comfortable.

By Liam Donovan / Dec 3, 2025